The Disturbing and the Amusing

Amusing first:

1) The movie Stranger than Fiction is highly recommended for sheer enjoyability. It helps that I love Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Queen Latifah and Dustin Hoffman. And it doesn't hurt that Maggie Gyllenhaal plays an anarchist who drops out of Harvard Law and starts an adorable bakery. In the end, it's a movie for writers or people who love writing and fiction. Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of a blunt, barefoot, yogurt-slurping English professor is spot-on, and his "genre test" is brilliant. There is a briefly horrifying scene in the shower room at the faculty pool, but it passes quickly. Just look away when you see old white man ass. Really, you should probably already know that rule.

2) The most disturbing thing sighted in weeks was at the WinCo yesterday. There is a new fruit in the produce department -- the Grapple. It "looks like an apple, tastes like a grape!" And it really does look exactly like a normal apple, but when you smell it, it smells like purple Kool-Aid. Freaky, people. Why do I think in a hundred years no one will even know what (remotely) normal fruit tastes like?