Last night we attended a free screening of “Stranger Than Fiction.” I got the passes thanks to being an Entertainment Weekly reader. Yay! It was actually pretty good overall, and there were a few surprises. Good acting, etc etc. But mainly I wanted to say that prominently featured in one scene is a show flyer for the Oakland band Rogue Wave. I thought that was pretty random. I went to an A’s game with one of those guys in April. Well, I went WITH my friend Whitney, and we tailgated with Zach, who was the guy who procured the tickets. Etc. That was the back-to-back-to-back home runs game that seemed like it might get rained out.

Oh and Will Ferrell has really tiny eyes. I wonder if that makes it harder to “emote.” Yeah, I realize that is a dumb question.

My legs have almost recovered from the hell I subjected them to last weekend (flying cross country twice in a span of three days). This morning I walked a mile and a half, then I did that again just now at the gym. The sky is crystal clear, and I looked out over the water at the Claremont Hotel shining in the distance, perched atop the Oakland hills. I have still never been inside.