Saturday Morning Notes

Saw Munich yesterday.  Excellent movie – ambiguous in its answers but very precise in its delivery.  Spielberg did a good job by not piling on the sentimentality and preachiness.  I am starting to really like movies that leave me with a sense of discomfort and disresolution at the credits.  Like Syriana, this movie makes me wonder how our society can win out over the forces of entropy that will do anything to destabilize our beliefs...

Saw Natalie Portman with Gael Garcia Bernal walking out of Munich at the end of the movie.  He was consoling her as she was sobbing pretty hard.  They're a lot smaller in person versus their outsized personas onscreen.

Oh, and Candice got a tiny mention in the Atlanta Journal Constitution under the Banda Aceh portion.  See ya soon!

Sharon Zhao agrees that it's very hard to get in the Christmas spirit in Banda Aceh.

Zhao, 26, is a manager for Development Alternatives Inc., a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. She's also spending her first holiday season away from her Washington, D.C., home.

She does have a friend coming to visit from the United States and plans to throw a "little party" with at least some chocolate fondue.