When The Dead Refuse To Die.

Go figure.....


Item 1) New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, has set a record for an opening day box office -- $72.7 million.  While I haven't seen it, longtime movie critic Roger Ebert, whom I trust, reports the movie seriously sucks.  Apparently people don't care that it sucks, as even here in Redlands, people camped out days before the movie opened to insure they'd be the first to see a sucky sequel to a sucky pop-culture phenomenon.  Lines stretched all the way from the theater to Redlands Blvd. and on down the block.

Item 2) Going Rogue, Sarah Palin's autobiography, has sold 300,000 copies on its day of release, and the initial print order of 1.5 million copies has been upped by an additional million. The one-day sale exceeds Hillary Clinton's book by fifty percent.

Is there something I'm not getting here?  A vampire drama swamps the theaters -- and the vampire is a vegetarian?  That Sarah Palin is still in the news, despite often looking like an idiot during her vice-presidential run, and subsequently quitting the governorship of Alaska?

Is it that a vampire and a folksy politician are both too cute to lay down and die, metaphorically?  One movie, and one election, are one too many for both.