Hey, Dumbledore's gay! Really don't know what to make of that one. I guess it's all right. When a character is so utterly sexless as Dumbledore is, I suppose it's reasonably easy to make him gay... especially months after the fact, huh? Boy, the slash community is going to go fucking crazy on this one. Might as well reveal that Snape is actually a woman named Sheila while we're at it.

Much easier to enjoy on the newsfront is the revelation that Criterion will finally be dipping into the Kurosawa canon with their Eclipse series... series 7, to be exact, which will be called "Postwar Kurosawa." Interestingly they're actually calling Record of a Living Being by its original title, I Live In Fear - which is only interesting because they didn't bother to do it for High and Low or Throne of Blood.

I expect there still has to be an "Early Kurosawa" box out there to be made, containing Sanshiro Sugata 1 & 2, along with They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail. Drunken Angel is getting a spec ed release in November. But we're entering the unfortunate realm of film scholarship where, quite literally, there might be no standing prints of the early works to make DVDs out of. And we're talking about artwork of less than 65 years of age. How does anything survive anything?? We're such brutes.

I had a bunch of stuff I was looking forward to doing today. But I'm coming down with a cold and my energy level has completely vanished on me. So instead I'm attacking people on Facebook and trying to figure out if it's worth slogging to the IGA to get Kraft Dinner.