It's 43 degrees outside.

That seems unreasonable.

Also, I need some exercise, so I'm about to drive to North Shore Cinema in Mequon and watch an action flick. Kingdom of Heaven, about the Crusades, or so Hollywood would have us believe.

UPDATE: Well, it's yer standard 12th century hack 'em up, with some fancy special effects, and the standard multicultural midieval blacksmith/lord hero seeking a new world where ppl (or at least blacksmith bastard sons of the high and mighty) are free to rise to the level of their ambition/abilities, while wreaking some havoc upon the poor long suffering locals. Sorta like Hollywood's take on other issues. Anyway, if you don't take it seriously, it's a fun enuf movie.

UPDATE II: Variety has an interesting tidbit :

[Kingdom of Heaven] opened on 21 screens in the United Arab Emirates, nine in Lebanon, six in Kuwait, three in both Qatar and Jordan and on single screens in Bahrain, Oman and Syria.

"We're expecting admissions of over 100,000 in both Lebanon and the U.A.E.," says Hiyam Itani of Circuit Empire, which is handling the pic for Fox in the Mideast. "People are really interested in it. They can relate to the story and the religious aspects. After all, it happened here."

But the film has also been dogged in recent months by accusations that it short-shrifts real history.

Well, "Pirates of the Caribbean" wasn't exactly a documentary either.