Why didn't Sith beat Spidey?

So Revenge of the Sith came out last Thursday. It shattered the previous record for an opening day with over $50m. It set new records on its second, third and fourth days at the box office. It made over $108m in its four-day opening weekend.

So why the hell didn't it beat Spider-Man 2's opening weekend?

Turns out it was because ROTS opened on a Thursday but its "opening weekend" numbers only included the first Friday, Saturday and Sunday it was in theaters.

Ah well. Now we really need to sink the Titanic.

update: turns out the original Star Wars whups Titanic when adjusted for inflation and based on estimated number of tickets sold. But Gone with the Wind is the king on both of those charts. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn - Star Wars is still the best. movie. ever.

saving private robin

We saved a baby robin that was stuck in the wheel well of my wife's car, sitting on top of the tire. The parents were flying around nervously, but fortunately they didn't attack us when my wife picked up the baby and moved it to safety. I think my wife would move mountains to save any animal, especially a baby. She's great :-)

grillin

Grilled some dogs for dinner. Yum.

his dignity, desires Yoda not

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

greasemonkey

If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Change the freaking channel!

If you don't like Howard Stern, don't listen to him!

The problem, of course, is that people *do* want to listen to him, and that disturbs a small but vocal minority who don't want us to have a truly open marketplace of ideas. These are the mostly the same people who hate the Internet, and so I am generally in favor of anything they oppose, as a matter of principle :-)

Some things I did today

Read Kevin Smith's blog.

Ordered a "give me your lunch money" t-shirt from GeekCulture as a Mother's Day present for my wife. She rules :-)

Posted to the blog. Yawn :->