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Caught The Animation Show last night. It was great, so much better than last year's. I loved almost everything, even the artsy French thing (which was actually a clever spin on a couple of old European folktales). The DH piece that closed it would have been tolerable if the balcony weren't filled with DH fanboys who were belly-laughing through the whole thing. For Pete's sake. I bet they all have LJ accounts just so they can have animated user-icons of the my-anus-is-bleeding guy. I would have left at that point but I wasn't 100 percent positive that it was the closer, so instead I took the opportunity to get a Coke and stare at the posters in the lobby for a couple of minutes, doop de doo.

How is it that "Rockfish" took me by surprise? An obviously big-budget, CG-animated SF story that didn't even blip my radar... huh. I really liked it. I wonder if it competed for the Oscar that "Ward 13" took.

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But before I forget: was I hallucinating before the show, or did I see an AmEx ad that used 9/11 to promote its credit card??

This was actually the first time I've ever seen a straight-up high-gloss ad in the Brattle, and that's surprising enough. But the content: a tough-looking grayhair taking us on a tour of NYC, narrating quick shots of city-sights with the template "My ____". So we saw this and that while he said things like "My team. My pride. My bridge." At one point he said "my heartbreak" and there was a glimpse of something over the shoulder of what appeared to be a cathedral; I dunno NYC landmarks well enough to recognize it. But my first assumption, given the word choice, was that it was a shot of Ground Zero. And I was willing to go along with it, since, you know, Brattle, so it was probably a film trailer. But then finally: "My card." AmEx logo over the skyline. Fade to black. WHAT

Update I am being assured by people closer to the topic (and city) than me that I did see what I thought I saw, but that it's not automatically evil. That's cool. See comments.