on coolness

My friend Marjorie has written a really great review and blog post about Where The Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze and Dave Egger's new film adaption of Maurice Sendak's children's classic.

I haven't seen this movie. Everyone I know raves about it. (Except Marjorie.) Or, I should say, raved about it from the trailer. But even the trailer made me itchy. Unlike Marjorie, who had (or I should say has, this woman is obsessed with kids' books, one of 87, 567 reasons I love her) a passion for the book ...