We tried to go see Casino Royale today, but it was sold out. Drag.
The movie theatre was abnormally busy; at first we thought it was related to all the suburbanites who drove into the city to see the Santa Claus Parade [warning: WORST WEBSITE EVER], but that seemed unlikely as those folks were all pushing their strollers to wherever they’d parked their Caravans. It’s not that popular a movie (in North America, anyway); it didn’t even win the box office weekend, losing to a bunch of animated penguins.
.:.
The elephants are as mad as hell, and they’re not gonna take it anymore.
All across Africa, India and parts of Southeast Asia, from within and around whatever patches and corridors of their natural habitat remain, elephants have been striking out, destroying villages and crops, attacking and killing human beings. In fact, these attacks have become so commonplace that a new statistical category, known as human-elephant conflict, or HEC, was created by researchers in the mid-1990s to monitor the problem.
Call me insensitive, but I’m rooting for the elephants.
[tags]casino royale, santa claus parade, angry elephants[/tags]
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
Can you buy movie tickets online in Canada?
You can, but we don’t usually bother. The theatre’s just around the corner, so we usually run over and buy tickets early in the day if we think it’ll be really busy. It simply didn’t occur to us that the screening would be sold out. Apart from Lord Of The Rings or the Star Wars films, I can’t remember the last time I saw a film sell out 30 minutes before the start time.