I went up to the Heights tonight to see The Village Shoemaker. Before the film was a presentation by some Finns. I should think it would have been more interesting had I had any idea what was going on. I mean, the performers were obviously talented, but the performance didn't mean much to any of us who didn't understand Finnish. As for the film itself, it also was fairly amusing, but there was a problem there also. As the print was a Finnish archive print, the subtitles were in Finnish and Swedish. As a result, they had a translater reading English translations. Some of the translations were okay, but most of the translations were so literal that they didn't really make any sense. Oh well, it was free, so I'll live.

Before going to the movie, I went to a McDonald's in Columbia Heights and got an Extra Value Meal so I could get the Corey Koskie mini-bobblehead doll. Now Koskie is residing on top of my television right next to Joe Mays.

And since we're on the topic of the Twins, while it's unfortunate that they lost again tonight, at least the White Sox, Mariners, and Yankees all lost also, so the Twins still maintain a 16 game lead and lose no more ground on a chance at home field advantage. If I'm not mistaken, the White Sox loss should now make the magic number for the Twins 33 - just like Romero.