I can hear the voice inside my head You know what last night was, right? It was Al Gore movie night!

froo, Devin and I caught the opening night of "An Inconvenient Truth" downtown at the Globe Theatre. It's the only theatre in town showing the documentary. Although we intended to attend the early showing, this movie must be receiving sufficient buzz that the resulting long line-up kinda scared us away. Okay, we didn't get that scared. We just decided to head down to the Sumo Lounge for a sushi dinner and take in the later show instead. It was slightly less busy, I believe.

Anyway, you should really SEE this movie. It's quite the wake-up call. Al does an excellent job refuting the critics who say that the earth has cyclical warming and cooling trends (and that what we are experiencing now is simply part of that). All you have to see are his graphs showing the up-and-down cycle over thousands of year and the seemingly sudden recent spike on a variety of measures to seriously scare you. Bring in some big-screen images of melting arctic ice sheets and it doesn't take much more convincing. Oh, and this tidbit: science textbooks will need to be re-written, because it has long been believed that it was impossible to see a hurricane in the south Atlantic Ocean. The waters are getting too warm and we had a our very first one last year. Eep.

I'm adding a pledge widget over on the right; if you're so inclined, click it and commit to seeing the movie. I made the pledge a few weeks ago and I'm a keeper of pledges, don't you know.  | ¶ 3:53 p.m.