making detroit beautiful (on the outside).

so on my long mother's day highway road trip we decided to keep an eye out for yellow, green, orange, purple, and pink automobiles. i found out afterwards these comprise in the vicinity of a mere five percent of cars on american roads (and i think those statistics include common carriers like taxis, which we weren't), and they were in fact quite scarce. we didn't see a one until about one hundred miles into the trip (it was yellow). the bold and the beautiful are not abundant.

i've found if i don't write an entry very soon after i think to do so i never end up doing it.

saw the avengers tonight, and, while i'm not sure the fact that it's joss will make you find it worthwhile if you're already averse to the (pg13 superhero action) genre (it's no firefly), it does mean that it's a marvelous specimen of that genre.

anyway, just felt it was worth noting the plethora of comeuppance moments (this of course glaringly obvious in a movie concerning avengers) and one in particular: having read christopher orr's atlantic review afterwards, he uses that exact word and calls out that exact moment (no real spoilers since i know you all know what happens to villains in works of this genre):

"([loki's] eventual comeuppance is one of the most crowd-pleasing onscreen moments in years.)" [parenthetical in original].



years. i think it's important to emphasize this aspect of his reaction. some hyperbole, but it was significant enough that i planned to write about it even before having read his review.

crowd-pleasing. i can't tell you the last movie i've been to which contained so many moments in which the audience around me clapped or cheered or groaned or awwwed. (laughed too, but i don't find that to be so uncommon).

and as nightspore has written so many times about observing observers, seeing it in a theater is almost worth the price of admission itself -- to witness these reactions. not only did the comeuppance please the crowd as it's supposed to do, but pleased them so much that they felt compelled to express it, en masse. (the less-than-comprehensive lj spellcheck doesn't like en masse.)



and, ( minor plot spoiler and fairly major emotional spoiler )

mca out

perigree moon


(tonight)

mets bucket hat guy is back, namedropping jd salinger, rosencrantz & guildenstern & hamlet, and sherlock holmes.

black francis is the subject of today's wiki featured article.

bythos just shuffled up james blunt's cover of where is my mind?

the espn recap of yesterday's tigers game mentioned those brief snow showers:

"after fielder's tiebreaking single [in the 8th], a light snow shower passed briefly over comerica park. there also was a light snow shower in the fifth inning."

the attendance at the tigers home game on 4/7 was 44,710 (the largest in franchise history for the second game of the season [espn adds the caveat: since at least 1947], a day when the attendance usually drops off, the third-largest non-opening day crowd in comerica park's 13-year existence, and just a few hundred shy of thursday's opening day numbers).

regarding sunday's game (the third of the red sox series), which the tigers came back to win 13-12 in extra innings: this is the first time that the red sox have ever lost a game in which they held multiple-run leads twice in the ninth inning or later. and it's the 2nd time that the tigers have won a game in this fashion, the first since september 28, 1929 against the white sox. alex avila's walk-off homer was the first one hit by the tigers when trailing in extra innings since september 19, 1998.

i haven't had the chance to watch any of the first three games, though i did get to listen to parts of sunday's game on the radio. but i've worn my orange ballcap with the blue d during each one, and so far they've won every game. i'm going to stick with it.

go tigers!

on a saturday, no less.