I believe I may have mentioned before - once or twice - that the pizza industry doesn’t neccessarily attract the sharpest knives in the drawer (Ogre, anyone?). This only proves me correct.

Yesterday was one of those days at work I dream of - started the day off with a 42-pie order and a $20 tip (would have preferred 20%, but…). The girls in the office were making jokes comparing my car to a clownmobile as I kept coming back in with yet another 8- or 9- pizza box tall stack. The afternoon stayed steady right up into the night, and most of my tips were in the $5 range which made for a truly excellent day.

I met Baltimore’s own heterosexual life partners at the Hunt Valley Regal Theater for the 7pm showing of Batman Begins.

There was — and I will admit to being totally jazzed by this — a trailer for the new Dukes of Hazzard movie! Let me also admit this - once you get past the countdown, and until they actually start with the dialogue, the trailer is great, because it’s all quickly paced shots of the General Lee jumping, skidding, and doing everything the car did in the show - only cooler - to an equally fast paced tune.

I saw Tim Burton’s Batman in the movie theaters waaay back in 1989. Yesterday at 7pm, that was my favorite Batman film, because, well, let’s face it - the last two films sucked ass, and Batman Returns, while good, just didn’t quite have it (although Chris Walken! Woot!).

I’d asked KMart heading in if there were any Patrick Bateman moments - and, there were. Actually, it was weird, because with his hair slicked back and the katana dueling scenes between Chris Bale and Liam Neeson - anyway, with the hair slicked back? Christian Bale actually reminded me a lot of a younger Adrian Paul (i.e., “I am Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod…”). As mentioned, the katana dueling scenes probably influenced that impression - at least a little.

I don’t want to get into the plot too much, but there are some really excellent action sequences in the film - particularly the car chase where the police are tying to track the Batmobile, which jumps from roof to roof, and finally pulverizes anything that gets in its way on the main roads - an officer shouts over his radio, “What does it look like? What does it look like?” because the only description he can get is: “It’s big, it’s black … it’s a tank?”

Anyway - I have to run some errands, then get to work, but … if you’ve been on the fence about going to see this film, go. It blows all previous Batman incarnations right out of the water.