Movie Review - "Waitress" - Mothra 6.4

For rating metrics, see post of May 2, 2007.

Keri Russell (Felicity, mouseketeer) is a waitress that has a really bad husband, a really bad job, a really bad Southern accent and a talent for making pies. She gets pregnant by her really bad husband and has an affair with the captain of starship Serenity (Nathan Fillon). She is dead ended until Andy Griffith, playing a real bad parody of Matlock, leaves her some money. Then she ditches everyone and dances off into the sunset with her cute daughter. Total chick flick, but I liked it more than did the women in the group that saw it with me. I don't know why. Only worth a Netflix rental, if any. Warning: Will make you really hungry for pie, so don't look if you are on a diet or want a really good movie.

In Loco Parentis

This weekend is Fathers' Day. Like other made up holidays like Mothers' Day and Valentine's Day, I believe that the creation of such "holidays" is a crock. It is promoted to create card and restaurant sales and has nothing much deeper as a purpose. However, it does remind me that being a father is one of the most profoundly life changing events that can occur in a man's life. I tell new parents to be that having a child is going to change their life like no other event they will ever experience, other than having another child. As well as being life changing it is a deeply positive experience. The concept of unconditional love is nothing more than a concept until you witness the birth of your child and then you understand completely. I have had the benefit of having three wonderful children and two wonderful stepchildren. I feel humbled and totally incapable of the requirements of such a position but I love it and wouldn't trade it for anything. I may have dinner with one or more of my children on Fathers' Day and I will probably get a card from most of them. I think that is totally unnecessary but I appreciate it and more accurately, appreciate the opportunity to experience fatherhood, one the of the greatest things that can happen to a man. If I did anything right, as a father, I learned it from my Dad.

Thanks, Dad. I love you.