We were going to see Monster today at the Charles but I didn't realize they played revivals at noon on the weekends so Monster wasn't showing when we got there. We decided to go to the Pet Expo instead. For eight dollars, it was pretty disappointing. There were a lot of pet food vendors, a couple of cutesy critter things (bandandas and such by the bolt, leashes, dog cookies, the works), some exotic pets (K wouldn't let us go near the snakes, but she found a strange affinity for the parrotlet, the smallest parrot known to human. Check out their society. Oana, perhaps your friend knows a parrotlet or two?) I had to ask K how to spell parrotlet because even though I make a living as an editor, I can be a piss-poor speller.


Which brings us to the next order of business, the documentary Spellbound. Anyone seen it? It was interesting, but I kept feeling, from the camerawork to the music, it felt funded by PBS or something. K and I agreed that in our spelling bee documentary, we'd have to include footage of the infamous Charlie Brown spelling bee, where contestants who spelled words erroneously were popped like zits off the screen. Somehow, I'd like that fate better than the walk of shame off the stage, wouldn't you? I so want to make a documentary! But I don't know of what. I remember the last documentary we saw, "Capturing the Friedmans," we debated for a long time afterward what documentary we would make. K won with sports mascots. What would your documentary be?