Spotless Wallet

Last night, a very strange thing happened. I was watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for the second time (so so good) in the Rainbow Theatres on King with Shannon and a friend of hers from work. The Rainbow is a chain that shows current movies at cut-prices at the cost of the movieplex big chairs/big screen/flashing lights. Anyways, as the movie is ending, Shannon's friend starts searching around the floor. She had put her handbag on the chair beside her (not very crowded theatre) and it had appeared to disappear. So the lights come on and I notice that she's not the only person searching from stuff, but another half a dozen groups or so seem to be looking as well. We all sort of look at each other and realize that something extremely weird is going on. In the small theatre with about 30 people watching a movie, two handbags, a purse, and two wallets had disappeared. There was obviously some unbelievably talented thief who had calmly wandered through the entire movie theatre, collected valuables, and left without anybody noticing anything. For a moment, I thought the scene was going to become one of those English murder mysteries where the detective locks the doors and declares, "one of you is the MURDERER." But instead the theatre staff just took names and numbers and promised to call if the wallets, etc. showed up.

On another note, MSN thinks of this site as the number 4 best hit for "artichoke hearts" leading to a disturbing number of people coming to look for pictures of the vegetable. To understand why google is so much better, it is enough to point out that this site is not in the top 100 returns for the same search.