Flicker of memory.

Something in someone else's journal made me think of this: They used to put pictures on sugar packets. I remember particularly the packets in a Flagstaff, Arizona restaurant when I was in ninth grade that had illustrations of Hopi kachina dancers. But I remember there used to be other ones in other restaurants.

Does anyone do that anymore? I haven't seen a sugar packet with a picture on it in years.

Wordplay. Wow.

According to Box Office Mojo, Wordplay ranked 20th in terms of overall gross take last weekend. And that's for a film showing in only 45 theaters; of the films above it in the list, the one at the fewest theaters is Poseidon, with 337. In terms of money per theater, Wordplay comes in just behind Click and Waist Deep and a couple of new films that were debuting at single theaters.

Just think about that for a second. The 20th most popular movie, on a summer weekend, was a documentary. About crosswords.

It was fun to see it in a theater on Saturday. There were a bunch of us puzzle folks there, but it was great to see and hear an audience of people who didn't know the featured people, and didn't know how it turned out react to the movie.

Hell of a ride we're on, ain't it?