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It was kind of a dull weekend. It seemed like everyone I know was out of town, so Lord Kissington (as Brian is to be known from now on) and I just chilled. Yesterday, we went to the (relatively) new movie theater next to the MCI Center to try it out. I think it’s great in theory that they have revitalized the Chinatown area, but in reality it kind of sucks. The building housing the theater and various shops and restaurants is a god-awful mishmash of about six different architectural styles. It’s ghastly. And the area has become really generic. We went down planning to get something to eat before the movie. I had my heart set on Matchbox, but it’s closed on Sundays. Don’t restaurants usually close on Mondays? We decide to do the next best thing and try Ella’s, but no, they don’t open until 4 on Sundays. It’s 3:45, but the movie is at 4:45, so we would be cutting it close if we wait for them to open. So we head back to 7th Street to decide on another option. Only there are so many tourists milling around that it takes us 15 minutes to get back there. I don’t have to deal with tourists much in my area, so sometimes I forget how annoying they can be. I stormed down the street, in “get the fuck of out my way” mode, but they were just everywhere. It was now 4, and the only choices we had that were open were crappy chain restaurants. No thanks, I’m not really dying to eat at Ruby Tuesday’s or Fuddruckers. We ended up having a sandwich at Potbelly. It was a little depressing. It’s such a drag when you have your taste buds all set on something, and it’s snatched away from you (spoken by someone who’s obviously never gone hungry in her life).

We saw Fantastic Four, and I thought it was pretty good. His lordship wasn’t quite as into it, but he didn’t hate it either. We both agreed that Jessica Alba looks good, but isn’t exactly convincing as a scientist type. The villain, Dr. Doom (why are comic book villain names so dumb?) is very one-dimensional. Really, the most interesting character is the Thing, the only one of the four who gets stuck with his freakish powers all the time and actually has to learn to deal with everyone being horrified by him. Anyway, on the summer movie scale, I put it below Kingdom of Heaven and Batman Begins, but above Star Wars.