Came out of Avatar last night. I was afraid the place would be packed. Lisa: “Um, it’s been out for weeks now.” Oh yeah. Occasionally, I forget that I’m pretty significantly behind the pop culture curve.

Yes, the movie was amazing on multiple levels and in many dimensions.

Anyway, we walk out of the theater and there are big boxes where they ask you to recycle your 3D glasses. Standing next to them is a soccer mom. She said to the party behind us, “I’m, um, collecting some of those glasses if you want to give them to me.”

Here is the speech that I thought of as I walked away…

So, I don’t know if you actually watched the movie. But it’s about a lot of things, a key one being that the planet we live on is a sacred place. You see, if we recycle these glasses then they don’t have to manufacture that many more of them, and it’s less plastic and less shipping costs and fuel to transport them and so on. But I guess the central theme of the movie was kinda lost on you.

Fact is, I wouldn’t have given her that speech – it’s not my M.O. But it killed some of the buzz I’d taken away from the Punch Brothers concert the previous evening.