Early congratulations to James Dinan and Susanne Akin on their wedding this weekend. I met James through quizbowl, and it was a pleasure to work with him in TRASH for eight years. Unfortunately the blessed event fell on a weekend when we'd already accepted a wedding invite. So 24 hours from now we should be arriving in Vegas to attend the wedding of Scott and JC.

If you're going to neither event, may I suggest the film Brick, which opens this weekend in apparently-wide release. It's a teen murder mystery done in deadpan-noir style. This is a conceit which sounds fraught, but holds up remarkably well. It was one of the best things I saw at last year's film festival. And with people flocking to Basic Instinct 2, you should have no trouble finding a row all to yourself.