Sometimes Laughter IS the Best Medicine

I was introduced to a brilliant website tonight. It was all about old Weight Watchers diet cards, complete with captions and new titles. Anyone seriously interested will have to contact me for the link, because enough of the caption-content was too inappropriate for me to feel happy linking it here. Besides which, I might look again tomorrow and find they aren't nearly so funny when not viewed after a margarita, something involving tequilla and red sugar, and a sad yet extremely amusing movie watched late (late? when did I redefine that term to mean 9:30-11?) at night with friends.

So instead, I am going to write about this movie. We watched My Date With Drew, a documentary about a man who spent an insane amount of time, effort, and money trying to get a date with Drew Barrymore. (If I didn't spell that name right, it's because I really do pay that little attention to celebrities. I'm amazed I even know who she is.) I highly doubt this is a movie I will ever own or, unless with a different group of friends eager to watch it, ever see again, yet I don't have that feeling of having wasted my time that most such movies would leave me. Perhaps because of the company while watching it, since this was a particularly amusing movie to sit and watch with a handful of other people who were ready and willing to be amused. The man attempting to get a date is aware of the strangeness of his own situation and makes it funny; he's out to get a laugh as much as to get his dream of this date fulfilled. If you've got a good crowd and are looking for a movie involving comedy and no actual thinking on your part, go ahead and pick it up. I did enjoy the evening. Just don't expect to find the premise (or anything thereafter) extremely smart, important, or inspiring.