Been a week of not feeling part of the crowd, cultural-wise.  I saw Slumdog Millionaire, for example, and while I enjoyed it, I did think that the big feelgood rush at the end is kind of muffed by a mistake that could have been easily fixed. 

Spoilers ahead, beware, but if you've got a movie where the whole point is that he's got specific reasons for knowing the answer to each questions, doesn't the movie just throw away all that work when he guesses on the last question?  Isn't it just saying, well, what the hell, we're going to give it to him no matter what, so all that stuff you just spent 2 hours watching didn't really matter?  Surely it wouldn't have been that difficult to give him a good reason to guess A or for Latika to suggest A?  Something magical and moving?  But a pure guess just sort of kills it for me.  A good film, still, but I wished it had made that last leap.

And I felt odd man out at Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National yesterday, too.  A pretty much sold-out audience at the National laughing their heads off at the clever-clever Tom Stoppard jokes, while I sat there waiting for something actually funny or to happen.  He gets bums on seats, does our Tom, but it's all brain, no heart, no blood, no piss.  You get the feeling that none of his characters have ever had to fart in their lives.

And finally, I feel way behind in wireless terms because I don't have it at home.  I'm desperate to get away from 10 years of crapola service from AOL, but how do you know you're not going to sign up to something and get equal garbage for the next 18 months of your contract?  That's how I got stuck with this toaster oven of a phone on 3 until Summer 2010.  Ugh.  Suggestions welcome.