I'd meant to spend more time reading one of the books I got from the $1-a-bag book sale at the library. What little I did read of David Feldman's "Imponderables" was interesting, though not as humorous as Cecil Adams' "Straight Dope". The short encyclopedia-like entries make either of these books great spare-time reading, plus one gets to learn how evil spirits and roses influenced the colors of baby clothing. (Blue was considered most protective since ancient times, while pink was the color of the roses baby girls came from in a European legend centuries later.) Instead, I ended up reading IMDB entries for some movies that were on this week, followed by a lot more information from tvtropes.org. Despite the spoilers which are generally identified, IMBD is good to check before watching a movie because it tells what goofs to watch for and other trivia. Even a boring western was a little easier to tolerate knowing that there would be so many errors. The few scenes I paid attention to included people using guns that hadn't been invented until decades after the movie setting, a German man playing a Commanche by speaking Navajo, and people running up a hill in Monument Valley Utah and running down a hill over 600 miles away in Bronson's Canyon in California.
Finally, I spent "Horton Hears a Who" following links from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HortonHearsAWho after checking out its IMDB page. This page added to the trivia from IMDB as well as explaining a lot of cliches and memes like the "Dreamworks Face" http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamworksFace Horton makes on the movie poster. This site has a lot of info on things that people assume incorrectly http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTheyThink, mentioned several of the people from a website the kids visit almost daily http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/, and the "Music" portion of this even linked to Cracked.com where I had done a lot of random reading last month.
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