A Few Thoughts
Thought 1:
We went and saw Inglourious Basterds yesterday (Gotta love Kino Tuesdays!). Everything I had read in reviews of the movie was right, which is to say, it’s classic Tarantino, it’s bloody, it’s violent, the dialogue is great, it gets a little long and slow after a while and Christoph Waltz steals the whole show. (He did win the best actor award at Cannes this year for the role.) He plays a Nazi SS man with, um, a few peculiarities. Anyway this film is under no circumstances approved for sensitive audiences (it is, after all, Tarantino), but I thought it was funny and fun.
Thought 2:
They sell yoghurt here in Germany that’s marzipan with poppyseed! For some people I know that would be like dying and going to heaven! You can even buy it in a big jar.
Thought 3:
Sports teams have salary caps. (For the unsporty among our readers, that means each team is only allowed to pay a single player a certain maximum sum, which is supposed to keep the teams competitive, in case one team can’t pay as much total for its players.) Why doesn’t banking and stocks simply have a salary cap for their big bosses? No extra bonuses, no over-ridiculousness. I mean, sports players and finance guys get paid ridiculous sums anyway, but a cap should help, shouldn’t it?
