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Here's three pictures I took at Sarah Duke Garden yesterday. The first is a picture of a family of ducks that were sheltering behind a cluster of iris plants. Very sweet and rated G. But for some reason, when I look at pictures of iris blooms close up--I get a very different impression. Maybe it's just me, but they look quite naughty. Now, while not as extreme as those Georgia Okeefe paintings could be, they definitely give me an impression of... something else entirely. If you ever saw that Pink Floyd movie "The Wall", thematically based on the album of the same name, you know what I mean. *whew* That was a movie with some extreme imagery. Adding to the theme of the iris petals was all the matrimony in the air. There were at least 3 weddings going on while we were at Duke--maybe more. The Chapel had one happening while we there, and it looked like the security guard was piling up folk from another wedding scheduled later, and there were several groups down in the ga...

I watched an interesting movie on DVD tonight. Lucky Number Slevin . Has anyone else seen it? Here's the summary from IMDb: A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis) and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him. As you can tell from the cast, there's a lot of great acting here. Yet. Somehow the entire thing came across as empty to me. Too much motivation, I guess. Not the acting, but in the prime moving element of the plot. I just can't see it playing out the way it did. As a result it seemed empty to me. I'll put the my reason in the first comment on here. I don't want to give away the plot element out in the open here. So ...