A little bit of this and that

Politics-free scraps from a busy day...

-Attended three films today and an audience member's phone went off during all of them, including one in which there were only two other people in the auditorium. Seriously, would it kill people to turn off their phones for a couple hours? (There's a longer version of this rant, but I'm going to restrain myself.)

-Obligatory knitting content: there are a couple brief shots of women knitting in the documentary Up the Yangtze.

-As if all the losing doesn't make being a Bengals fan hard enough, the players' off-field shenanigans are what really make one feel like a laughingstock. But you know what? I'm very amused that wide receiver Chad Johnson has legally changed his last name to Ocho Cinco. (For the uninitiated, it's his uniform number rendered in Spanish.) This is the pièce de résistance of his petulant and bizarre off-season behavior. I wonder if he has some actual psychological issues in need of diagnosis, but whatever the case, I've got to give him points for style. He wants to be an entertainer. I'll take this kind of stunt over the whining he was doing in the spring and early summer. And at least he hasn't been arrested five times, cut, and then resigned.

-Somehow I missed when it started getting dark so early.