Chose to select my Five Favorite Films for facebook. It was hard to choose and I left out some I really love like "Gone in Sixty Seconds" Actually almost any Jerry Bruckheimer film works for me. I feel like he is someone I could like in person. One can only hope.

Twitter has turned out to be much more interesting than I had thought. I am only following 19 people, but their tweets make great reading. Most are people I know IRL, but a few public figures (famous people, celebrities, or ?) There is a reason that some of them have several hundred thousand followers, they are *interesting.* Writing is not easy or natural for most people, we react to images and sounds, very concrete things. Words are abstract. To take these funny little symbols and string them together coherently is an art. You could have natural talent, but like all skills, this one must be practiced and polished. I enjoy movies, but I love books. I love the time spent touching the pages, handling the weight, and studying the typeface. I love settling in to meet mind to mind with another person. To listen closely to what they are saying. To think and to be mentally challenged. I enjoy reading from the computer too. Blogs are cool, and now twitter is proving to be a modern literary salon. Rather than overwhelmed, I feel refreshed and excited there.

When I read Hayek, or Lewis, I often wish I could sit and visit with them, to hear their ideas in their own tone of voice. One of my most treasured possessions is a CD set of most known recordings of J. R. R. Tolkien reading selections of his written work. Sometimes I read along with him, sometimes I just sit and listen. When I read tweets I hear the voices of my friends speaking.

(Speaking of speaking, I am watching GiSS while I write this, is anyone as cool as Sphinx ?)

While reading The Road to Serfdom, in places I think I see hints of humor, and I wonder how it would sound if Hayek were sitting on the couch here, just telling me his ideas and thoughts. Then I wonder, if the translators caught his tone correctly. German is very expressive, and Hayek was clearly bi-lingual but was his English in 1944 this correct and smooth? Trnaslations make a huge difference as SoS Clinton discovered in Russia recently. But tonight I will not worry about it, and simply enjoy my meeting of minds.