We took Caitlin to see Up yesterday morning, since Dylan is going to see it tomorrow night at the drive-in with some friends.

It’s a movie about how old people are smart and resourceful and it’s never too late for your dreams etc. etc. Unfortunately we saw it with a real-life old person sitting in front of us and she talked loudly during the whole thing. Maybe that was her lifelong dream that she and her husband never got to achieve during their fifty years together: to go to theaters full of young people and talk loudly during the quiet parts of movies.

But on the way out of the theater, I heard her turn to her daughter and say, “The hero was Spencer Tracy and the villain was Kirk Douglas.” Which was exactly right, and I hadn’t even noticed. Good job, loud theater lady.

Up is charming, by the way. Pixar’s amazing 10-for-10 streak on their theatrical features is starting to look like some kind of superheroic, DiMaggio-like feat compared to the output of other studios. Something to look for when you see it if you are a weirdo like me: “Ellie’s” painting style is modeled on one of the greatest 20th-century illustrators, Mary Blair.