It snowed again last night in St. Louis. It is so strange. Every time that I go to Chicago, I'm told that they haven't had any snow. Somehow, St. Louis seems to be getting all of Chicago's snow. I just know that whenever I return full-time to Chicago, that the snow will follow me. Maybe I should rent myself out to ski resorts that need snow. Instead of a rain maker, I could be a snow maker.
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A funny thing happened over the weekend. I was going out on Saturday and I saw a small Cheetos bag on the ground outside. I thought that I should dispose of it, but instead I just left it. On Sunday I went out and there was a squirrel sitting on the fence with the bag in its mouth. I felt like I was in a Disney movie and the squirrel was mocking me for not cleaning up the litter. We tend to forget how nature goes about its business when we are not around. Someday I would like to live like Thoreau at Walden Pond and just live deliberately and examine nature. It's a shame how we have interfered with so many parts of nature for our own gain. I bet this continent was beautiful about 10,000 years ago, before we arrived and started changing the land.
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I saw the film 'Chicago' on Saturday. I really enjoyed it. It broke my rule that I have never seen a movie set in a prison that I liked. It also went a long way towards changing my mind about recent musicals. There hasn't been a decent musical in over 25 years that I can remember. Evita, which should have been good, was horrible. I am so happy that Renee Zellweger was in Chicago. They originally were trying to cast Madonna. That would have been a disaster. Catherine Zeta-Jones was great in her role and she did a great job of singing All that Jazz. I don't know if it will be named best picture at the Oscars, but it is worth considering. It is very hard to take a stage play and turn it into a film. Too many times, it just seems like a play that has been filmed. This one was beautifully constructed and filmed.