One of the great joys in my life is the NPR show "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me". In addition to listening to it on the radio when I can, I also subscribe to the podcast. This week, they had a best show. This one, made up of parts voted by the listeners, featured Paula Poundstone sounding off to Michael Palin. He was making the point that some foods may not actually qualify as food. Paula defended Ring Dings as something that made her life worth living. After some back and forth she made the statement, " You may know a lot about food, but you don't know the first thing about living, buddy." That statement resonated with me, probably because all week I've been watching the movie Wall-e, which has just become one of my favorite filmis of all time. Any sci-fi film that successfully interweaves a Broadway musical (like "Hello, Dolly) grabs my attention. The scene that thought of is when the captain of a spaceship is arguing with the auto pilot say...
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