Working our way through a mountain of borrowed DVDS, and...

What if an average guy had the DOC impulse to help people? What would
that look like? Maybe like A LONE STAR STATE OF MIND, a quirky comedy
about young man who takes the responsibility for looking after others
very seriously in his off-best small Texas home town -- with his
amazing crew of a small-time criminal who hates him and wants to kill
him, a retard, an openly gay non-dating mechanic who hates getting
dirty, and his step-sister who he sleeps with.

Watched J-Lo in ENOUGH. The final sequence, where she prepares her
abusive husband's condo for the ass=kicking she's going to give him,
is neat -- she doesn't even get to use half the gimmicks she has
ready.

Then we watched ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. In the pulps,
ventriloquism is often a real plot crutch, but it is still amazing to
see it done.

The power of imagination

Although they were at their peak in the late 30s and early 40s, Bergen and
McCarthy & Company lasted for 20 years...until TV...several smash movies...a
mediocre ventriloquist with his entourage of dummies... a testament to the
power of good comedy writing and a clever concept--let the imaginary kids
behave like adults...