Patriotism swells in the heart of the American bear

The above title is a quote from a movie playing in more than one Austin theater this week. I know some of you will guess it immediately. Check out this week's News from Slackerwood column at Cinematical if you can't figure it out.

Three years ago, on the July 4 holiday weekend, I went on a first date with this guy I liked to see a special screening of "banned cartoons" at Alamo Downtown. Or maybe it wasn't a date. I was never quite sure. Anyway, that guy and I got married last month.

So you can see why I'm fond of going to the movies on the July 4 holiday weekend, and why I'm sorry there aren't more choices in Austin this year. We still haven't seen An Inconvenient Truth, and there may be a couple of other movies at the Arbor we could stand to see (if we can put up with the commercials beforehand). Otherwise we'll just have to go buy a grill, or something.