Thing #1 – Last week Pastor A. loaned us a GREAT movie called Mirrormask. The more I think about the movie the more I liked it (I might make it a Youth Movie Night selection). The movie is a product of two great minds – Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, they are the british combo that brought us the ground-breaking graphic novel Sandman as well as childrens’ books The Day I Traded My Dad For Two GoldFish and The Wolves in the Walls. Gaiman is the storyteller and McKean is the artist. Both are incredible on their own (Gaiman recently adapted the ancient epic poem Beowulf  and his own graphic novel Stardust for the big screen) but when they work together things go up another notch entirely. Another great writer/animator team was Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman. Anyhow – the movie is a great modern fairytale worth watching.

 

Thing #2 – Tiger Woods won the Bay Hill Invitational today, for the fifth time. He becomes the only golfer to have won four different tournaments five times each. He couldn’t have done it in more dramatic fashion as he was tied for the lead going to the 18th hole. He had a 25 foot putt for birdie and the win otherwise he was going into a playoff. To put things into context he hadn’t made a putt greater than 18 feet all week. Of course you know by now what happens – he made the putt. Crazy talent this guy is. In my books Woods is the greatest athelete of all time, in any modern sport, period.