We made it to the theater early enough to watch the previous showing's attendees walk out. The look on their faces resembled old people getting off a tilt-a-whirl. No one was smiling, not even the gays. They were stone-faced and quiet, like they had just seen Schindler's List or something. I became concerned, so I asked a couple people if it was any good and was met with a hesitant, "Ummmmm, yeah, it was...good." I assumed people were just blown away by Heath Ledger's riveting, sure-to-be-Oscar-nominated performance and feeling down because he is no longer with us.

So we took our seats and got ready for the puppet show.

I became less fixated on the plot and more on the mole Christian Bale has between his eyes. Surely his salary would allow for that to be removed, no? Oh, I suppose it's a defining characteristic of who Christian is, and removing it would be killing off part of his DNA and insulting his family gene pool. This is the same issue Enrique Iglesias and Sarah Jessica Parker have struggled with throughout their lives. I guarantee it will be gone in three years.

The movie was completely original and oh so very, very dark and disturbing and chaotic and dreary. I'm not sure what it was all about, but I think the general gist was that you can't trust anyone. Sounds like the writers have spent some time in the "gay community!"

I asked Brett if he liked it and he said, "Don't fucking talk to me. Life sucks." So I asked, "Do you want to get some sushi?" In between tears he whispered, "Okay, I'd like that."

We tried out a new sushi restaurant called Banana Leaves. They have that dancing banana on their web site. I love him. He's the anti-Dark Knight and just what we needed.

My (Jewish) friend Greg joined us for dinner, so the conversation drifted into the underlying themes of The Dark Knight, like how Greenland is melting and how, ironically, all of our monies and resources will be spent trying to salvage Arizona from running out of water, so, despite advances in technology, we will not be able to assist eradicating the increasing famine and disease in Africa and India, mainly because we continue to overpopulate the planet while depleting our natural resources, thus further fostering terrorism by igniting more of a have/have-nots mentality among millions, which will lead to more bloodshed and all of us having to live in a concentrated area the size of Texas because the rest of the U.S. will be uninhabitable, and how fortunate we are because we will likely be dead before it gets to that level, but how cool it would be to read our grandchildren's blogs detailing their plights during those years because they will surely be more interesting than the ones we read now.

I was like, "Maybe so, but was anyone else bothered by Christian Bale's mole?"

The sushi was delicious and relatively cheap, considering. Best to appreciate the little things before it's, y'know, too late.