Sadness is...

Its a Saturday afternoon. I have no plans for the weekend. I saw "V for Vendetta" last weekend (pretty good), and there aren't really any other movies out that I want to watch. I am eating a bowl of chili from a can that I just heated up and desperately flipping through the channel guide trying to find something to entertain me. And then, behold, I see listed the movie "Spartacus." My heart leaps and I shriek a joyful "I am Spartacus!" as I change the channel. I am suddenly content as I am confronted with an image of a young Kirk Douglas yearning to be free. But as his clefted chin lowers and his first words come out, I realize that something is terribly wrong. At the end of the movie, all the actors will be shouting "Yo soy el Sparticus!" The cannel showing this masterpiece of cinema is one of the Spanish channels.

Thats right. The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh awayeth. Or rather, translates into Spanish. And while I remember enough of my year of high school Spanish to be able to ask a Spanish speaking Sparticus where the bathroom is (Donde esta el bano), much of the non-simple-directions-asking aspects of the dialogue will be lost to me.

The sad part is that it is still the best thing on.