Iron Man 2

Dumb as a box of bunnies, and great fun. The Times and Entertainment Weekly complained that the fight scenes went on too long, but they weren't as endless as I'd feared. For the rest: just fun. Loud, silly, sometimes witty fun.

And I want Robert Downey Jr. for Mother's Day. Just for the sotto voce threats he makes to his beloved mechanical servos around the lab.

Happy Mother's Day, All You Mothers

That means you (looks over Friends list, decides to be lazy and not type in the names of all the people known to me to be mothers, including the HTML codes and stuff. Hey, it's Mother's Day!), all you Moms out there. And all you people who had Moms, too. Mothers are sometimes fraught with weird meaning and seemingly bad intentions. But very few of us get up in the morning thinking "How can I fuck up my kid today?" Some actively seek motherhood. Some have motherhood, um, thrust upon them. Some blither in, thinking it's all going to be a Hallmark card. Some tiptoe in cautiously and find they're having the time of their lives. And once you're in, Mom-wise (unless you're that unfortunate woman in Kentucky who sent her adopted son home to Russia) you're in. No returns, no take-backs.

So Happy Mother's Day. I mean, why not. And to celebrate, Here! Have some cake!.*



*Courtesy of the fabulousness which is Cakewrecks