
When Terra & I were finished at the Museum of Modern Art, we headed over to Jenny's library, since we were in that neck of the woods anyhow. Maybe it was the heat, maybe it was the weird hole in the world that the Helmsley Building is-- seriously, right in the middle of the street? Totally a Fringe-esque incursion from another universe, right?-- but is was a pretty goofy walk over there. Hideous marionettes & lumbering golems for the win. We only hung out for a bit-- Terra had a train to catch for her Ultimate Slumber Party & the library was closing, so she split & I hung around reading the (absolutely awesome) Supergods until Jenny was ready to leave, & we took off. I wanted to go do some kind of a date thing but it was a hundred & three degrees Fahrenheit & humid as hell, & there was no way we were going to go out of our way. Jenny & I still came up with a good time-- when we got back to Brooklyn we decided to go to Peppino's & get some...wood-oven baked pizza? Why we decided the best idea to beat the heat was to go to a place with a giant indoor over I will never know, but it was nice. We split a bottle of wine, some antipasto, a pizza & a cheese steak. More than I could even begin to eat, actually, so there were leftovers for breakfast. After that we came home & watched Red Riding Hood. So, here is the thing: I thought Catherine Hardwicke did an awesome job with Twilight. She was tongue in cheek but respectful of the source material, which is a fine line to walk. Red Riding Hood is pretty blatantly an attempt to cash in on Twilight, but without a pop cultural touchstone to capitalize on. Instead you get a fairytale, but is both better & worse. Worse, because...I'm sorry, the "what big eyes you have" exchange really was irredeemably awful. Better because...well, you've got plenty of room to play around. In the end analysis, the movie was..."fine." It wasn't good, by any means, but it wasn't so awful. Amanda Seyfried is pretty great; I mean, she's everyone's favorite