By the way...

I've had ideas to take a piece of a puzzle at thrift stores and/or tear out pages of books there. I've never done it but it was always a fun thought. So in January I read Of Mice and Men which was bought used a while back from some bookstore via Amazon. Anyway, the last page was torn out. Or pages? George had just shot Lennie and simultaneously the mob was approaching then...

I guess it was a sort of cool way to end it. Does that count as finishing a book?

Speaking of count, Clerks played at the Dundee the other week. The Reader did a brief of it in the events portion of their issue and they, for some reason, mentioned the budget of the movie and blah, blah, blah...

Not only is that fact so overdone and boring, it was never relevant. It's a dialogue-based movie. It could've just as well been an audio book. If it were an action movie or something done for that budget, yeah, impressive. If he spent anymore than that it would've been pointless. Personally, $27,000 is much I think for that movie. They were all one-shots and he didn't have to pay much for set or actors...and production. Good movie, but the focus is always on the wrong thing.

Glengarry Glen Ross was pure dialogue as well, but I bet that budget flew through the roof because of the cast.