spy what karaoke?

So, seriously, Spy Kids 3-D is out in a couple of weeks, seemingly without fanfare, and it looks to be pretty much wholly kickass. I know, I know, it's allegedly a silly kid's movie, but Robert Rodriguez knows what he's doing, and the first two Spy Kids movies were seriously good fun for adults too, with some inspired casting choices (c'mon, Ricardo Montalban as the kids' grandpa, Alan Cumming and Tony Shalhoub in the first movie, Steve Buscemi and, of all people, Mike Judge in the second one?), and this new one - well, it's filmed in high-definition 3D, so you need 3D glasses to watch it, it's set in a videogame world gone bad, and the bad guy? None other than Sly Stallone. I'm elbowing aside the toddlers to go check it out.

Otherwise, a very pleasant July 4th was had by all, tooling around the East Bay, right up North as far as the Delta to check out some fireworks, and the customary bad karaoke (this time, De La Soul's 'Me Myself And I' and Rolf Harris' 'Jake The Peg' were slaughtered by, uhh, me myself and eye - 'Jake The Peg' to special hilarity since Rolf Harris is persona non grata in America, or more accurately non known-a.)