Phoebe In Wonderland

In January of 2008 I was able to attend the Sundance Film Festival in Utah with a few friends. While we were there I saw a film called "Phoebe in Wonderland".  I've been waiting and waiting and now it's finally being release in "select" theaters.   Phoebe in Wonderland is not a great film.  It's not going to win any awards at the Oscars, nor should it (aside from the award for best actress which should go to Fanning- she is amazing in this film- and only 8 at the time it was made).  The story is reasonably interesting.  Some of the acting is quite good.  But overall the execution of the film is only ok.  

That notwithstanding, I found the film deeply moving and painfully beautiful for reasons I only partly understand.  Some of those reasons are probably quite subjective to my personal experiences as a child and a father. I recommend it to all of you.  Maybe some of you will connect with it.  Maybe you won't.  

An Open Letter to Larry Mullen, Jr

Dear Larry, 

In the photo on the cover of the latest Rolling Stone magazine, I noticed something unusual about Bono's face.  It appears as though he is either wearing eye makeup or someone punched him in the face.  

Michael Stipe already has the "aging rock star front man wearing eye make up" category pretty well covered and it seems to me that we really don't need more than one of those guys. 

Anyway, I know there are lots of people who would like to punch Bono in the face, so maybe that's what happened.  I don't know, but if somebody could fill us in concerning what's going on with that general region of Bono's head, we'd appreciate it.  

And if it turns out that Bono is wearing eye makeup, maybe you could just go ahead and punch him in the face. Thanks so much.