Busy weekend here. Susan and I dressed up for the Ratatouille wrap party on Saturday, this year at the Masonic Temple in SF. Started early for us since she had singing dress rehearsal in the afternoon. The Pixar singers outdid themselves this year; there were the usual speeches (Brad Bird had some moving things to say); then we got to see a hilarious featurette about motion capture which I hope will make the DVD, the new short Lifted, and finally the movie itself. I was seeing it for the first time (as usual, I avoided reels) and it was quite wonderful. Storywise, easily in the top three of Pixar’s output to date, and artistically and visually amazing. Congratulations to everyone on the Rat production crew.

No pictures yet. I took lousy ones, so I’ll have to hope the photographers circling the post movie soirée took some decent snapshots of the two of us in our fancy clothes.

Unfortunately we had to leave the wining and dining early – I had an early Sunday morning to prepare for (an all day chamber workshop at the College of Marin to get to). Sorry to those we missed at the party!