Animated Film Is Latest Title to Run Aground at DreamWorks. DreamWorks SKG has been one of the latest studios disappointed by a collective shrug from moviegoers. 

I think the movie execs really miss the point.  It's not an issue of hand drawn animation versus digital animation that is attracting movie goers.  Finding Nemo is just a really good movie.  As was Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Shrek.  If audiences were simply into eye-candy then the South Park movie wouldn't have been as successful as it was.

To sit there and look at flops like Titan, A.E. or Treasure Planet and decry the death of traditional animation is to look at crap like, "Dude, Where's My Car?" and decry the death of the modern road-trip adventure movie a la "Easyrider".  via [New York Times: Business]

Saturday morning we headed over to our friends Vinnie and Christy's place to see their new girl Isabella.  Since they live in Austin of course they have the obligatory family website.  The girl is gorgeous and absolutely one of the happiest kids I've ever seen.   She was sleeping when we got there but was awake soon enough to keep us entertained for hours.

Saturday night we ended up going out to for Indian food at the Clay Pit with our friends Lakshmi and Subu and were joined by the indispensable Franks!  Don't let the fact that the boy has a livejournal fool you, Franks is da bomb!

Afterwards we headed out to Speakeasy's and met my friend Dan and hung out talking til the wee hours of the night.

We had a blast and the best news is that we will be heading back up in the near future for a wedding and let the festivities continue.