Is it just me?

Is it just me or does the blogging community seem preternaturally quiet these days? Several of my faves haven’t updated for 3 or 4 days, and everyone just seems sort of sluggish in general. Is it the February blahs or the excitement of SXSW coming up (for those of us who are lucky enough to be going)? Or something darker?

Contact

We watched Contact on DVD last night. Wow. I’d never seen it before, but what an interesting film. Pretty balanced too, in that it shows how much faith and science are similar. Here’s to the search for Truth (or truth, if the capital makes you uncomfortable!). One funny bit, though. Why did Jodie Foster have to go through all that to meet the Vegans? Couldn’t she have met any at her local vegetarian restaurant?