I liked it better last year when it was called "Crash"

Saw Babel last night. I found it too heavy-handed and boring. Thon-engendered bad habits kicked in halfway through and it was all I could do at one point not to start with the ol Jump! Jump! chant.

After that, though, I did fail to not make muted-trumpet noises whenever anyone said anything Tragically Ironic, based on information the audience knew but the characters didn't, which happened with increasing frequency as the story wore on. "I promise I'll never let anything happen to the kids!" Wanh, waaanh.

I hope it doesn't actually win any Oscars, except for the acting ones. The acting was all right.

Local Gamers filter administrivia

I made a post last night to my "local gamers" filter and it has been pointed out to me that it was missing a few names. I just added a couple of people.

If you'd like to be on it and you don't appear to be, gimme a yell. I use it mostly to organize semi-spontaneous game stuff and post to it infrequently.