It’s what I’ve been saying…

Brandon sent me this LiveScience link on vegetarianism and IQ level.

(HealthDay News) — As a child’s IQ rises, his taste for meat in adulthood declines, a new study suggests.

British researchers have found that children’s IQ predicts their likelihood of becoming vegetarians as young adults — lowering their risk for cardiovascular disease in the process. The finding could explain the link between smarts and better health, the investigators say.

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Hurrah for NetFlix

It’s been some time since my last update.  End-of-the quarter brought my general lackadaisical blissfulness to an abrupt halt, leaving mental skid marks behind.

Some time ago, utterly bored of the supreme waste of film in Blockbuster, Brandon and I subscribed to NetFlix.  He manages our queue mostly, except for the occasional gay cheerleader movie I throw in, and randomly selects films from the new release list.

I have to confess my skepticism when the movie Kinky Boots was dropped in our mailbox.  But although it sounds like some transsexual porno flick, it was actually quite good:

After inheriting the family shoe business, Charlie Price finds that the business is miserably failing.  After a chance encounter with flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola, Charlie is inspired to market to a niche market: men’s fetish footwear.

A few days later, 12 and Holding arrived.  It, too, was a remarkable cinematic work:

The accidental murder of 12 year-old Rudy impacts the lives of inseparable friends Malee, Leonard, and Rudy’s brother Jacob.  The film follows the lives of the precocious Malee making her first romantic exploration; Leonard and his struggle with obesity and his obese family; and the conflicted Jacob whose grief mingles with wrath.

Now we’re waiting on the movie Pizza to arrive.

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