It has been brought to my attention

that I have been delinquent about blogging. Indeed, that is the case. My last post dates back to more than three weeks ago.

So how to summarize the last three weeks without doing so in my usual cursory and breezy way where I sort of apologize for not being more accountable to my readership of two or so and then half-heartedly go through the motions of discussing the highlights of the past few days.

Well, first things first, I promised you movie reviews. And I have seen two movies. So here goes:
(1) I saw Inception a couple of weeks ago. But I have to confess that I saw the movie late on a weekday after a long day of work, and so when the theater lights dimmed and the air conditioning kicked in, and I fully satiated myself on the gummy bears that I bought as an impulse purchase right before the movie, well, you saw me sliding lower and lower in my seat and . . . perhaps I took a cat nap.

Which in a movie about dreams does not seem all that inappropriate.

The problem, however, is that the movie is complicated. I think it's supposed to be like an onion, and you're supposed to peel off layer after layer. Which means that I had to eat raw onion skin. Yes, figure out how that metaphor works. There's meaning in there somewhere, I'm sure.

(2) I can review "Salt" more ably, given that I stayed awake. I love action movies, even though they have become simply so ludicrous. Eons ago (perhaps a month or so ago) I talked about seeing the movie with Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise, the name of which escapes me now, and I'm so lazy I can't even bother to look it up again, oh google despite you being at my fingertips, I still have to exercise those lazy fingertips, in which the improbable happens. Well, same plot line for Salt -- the improbable, nay, the impossible happens. But that is OK. The movie has Angelina Jolie, and she really is one of a kind. I can't think of another woman who does "tough" quite like she does. I know Jennifer Garner was kind of kick-assy in the TV series Alias but there was something soft about her. In Jolie, too, but that vulnerability seems vulnerable rather than cute/ faux feminine.

I found the plot a little complicated. Which might I am dumber than your average law graduate since my two law school friends with whom I saw the movie both thought that the plot was simply silly. But I thought that it was layered. That onion peeling metaphor applies again! And there was a twist at the end, and Lord knows who I love twists, especially when it's a lemon being squeezed into my drink.

But I digress. Go watch the movie. At least (2) if not (1). Because I haven't adequately reviewed (1).