I'm watching Casablanca. This is my favorite Saturday night movie. Three or four times a year, when I find myself home alone on Saturday night (which is certainly more often than three or four times a year) with a lame SNL host (tonight: Norm MacDonald, who I can't stand), I pop in Casablanca, and either do homework, write, or just watch.

I know Citizen Kane usually tops the best-movie-of-all-time list, but this one tops mine. Every time I watch it, I fall a little bit more in love with it. It's a drama, suspense, a musical, a war flick, a comedy, and of course, above all, a romance, in one beautifully shot movie. It's only perfect.

And no one ever utters the line, "Play it again, Sam." You knew that, right?

I've been goofing around with an HTML Editor I downloaded with the FTP program for my new site. (It's WAAAAAY under construction, and I probably won't be premiering it until April, but you're welcome to check it out at www.abeyance.net as long as you remember what I said about it being under construction and don't pass judgment on whatever shape it happens to be in when you see it.)

I don't think I like it. The HTML editor, I mean. I'm sure they are very helpful once you get to know it, but I'm too impatient. I think I do just fine all on my own.

Rick: If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?
Sam: My watch stopped.
Rick: I bet they're asleep in New York... I bet they're asleep all over America. [slams fist on bar] Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world... she walks into mine.

It doesn't get any better than that.

Anyway, I don't like the HTML editor. It's too confusing and there's no decent "Help" section and I'm just going to keep doing it the old-fashioned way like the non-you-know-what that I am.

I did go out for a bit tonight, over to my friend Jan's apartment to watch Il Postino, which I had never seen before.

I'm going to expose my immense superficiality (there's an oxymoron for you) by admitting that I just don't get foreign films very often. It was a lovely movie, and I enjoyed it, but I don't see why everyone thought it was SOOOOOOO exceptional.