Babbling incoherently...

G and I went to go see the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight" last night. I love midnight showings...but I also had to work at 6 o'clock this morning. So, instead of sleeping, I say that I "napped" last night. Which also made for an interesting day, considering I began to babble incoherently around noon...after having moved boxes for the six previous hours.

The movie was incredible, to say the least. I was enthralled the entire time. But since it was the midnight showing, of course, we had to get there early. We arrived at the theater to get great seats, and the people filed in around us.

Now, I forgot one tiny thing about the midnight showing of this movie. Those who would go to this occasion are certainly interesting...especially the sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen year old boys who end up sitting behind you.

Now, they were the obnoxious type of boys who believe they are intellectual and socially aware, having a good half-an-hour conversation about BOYCOTTING the OLYMPICS.

Now I ask you, high school boys with your lofty morals, were you going to go to Beijing and watch, but now are not because it is becoming too "commercialized"? YOU BOYS ARE SITTING AT A MIDNIGHT SHOWING OF ONE OF THE MOST COMMERCIALIZED MOVIES OF YOUR SHORT LIVES.

Did you boycott the movie that is inspiring pizza places to have Dark Knight pizza? No. In fact, your only boycott is really that you will not turn on NBC or the USA Network to watch the Olympics.

Then, THEN you start talking about how your boycott goes farther than the commercialism, it goes towards the idea that "all of those athletes use steroids, and I just don't agree with that." And then another chimes in (with little regard to the fact that you are all still talking about the OLYMPICS) that he "hates what steroids have done to sports. Its the reason I've stopped watching baseball." After they all agree with him, they get back on topic.

And as they are talking more and more about steroids, athletes, and training, this deep thinker came up with this observation:
"The fundamental difference between steroids and training is that steroids are steroids and training is training." Wow. Deep. Brilliant. I cannot believe the clarity.