Poor Andrew

Okay, take a look at these 'houses' and tell me what fraction of a second it took you to figure out what the gig is, even without the text.

To me, a digitally manipulated image of a house is not a house, it's an image. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

At the Movies

Most distracting thing about the movie Brave: heroine named after the capital city of the State of Yucatan. Though that was more distracting when reading reviews than listening to the film: as we discovered in a Mexican restaurant in Edinburgh, Scottish people cannot manage Spanish pronunciation even to save themselves from ridicule.

Second most distracting thing: Eerie degree of physical resemblance between Young MacIntosh and Alan Cumming, and trying to figure out if there's a voice cast pairing there. (There isn't.)

Best thing about Brave: La Luna - the Pixar-animated short that precedes the film. Not to say that Brave is bad, but rather that La Luna is really marvelous, a gorgeous little jewel-box of a film.

Biggest difference from watching kid-movie trailers in the late 1970s: Six gajillion trailers, and only *one* is for a live action film (well, sorta live-action - it was the trailer for The Hobbit, so it's been heavily breathed upon, digitally speaking).

Biggest sameness to watching kid-movie trailers in the late 1970s: Bumper crop of kid movie trailers, and NOT ONE is for a hand-animated film.