It's Wednesday, which means I'm looking forward to the weekend! I'm sure you are too. Here are some fun things going on this weekend, you can comment if you want to add something else to the list.

• Don't forget about movies in the park on Wednesday. This week is "Curious George."
• Thursday brings "Santorini, Greece" at Forty Two in the Clinton Center. For $27.95 you can get a 3 course meal and cultural entertainment frmo Greece. Call 501-537-0042 for reservations. The Clinton center is also having a fun space event in conjunction with super summer Saturdays and their new summer space camp. The demonstrations are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
• Friday is a fun bluegrass concert at the Old State House Museum. Posey Hill will be playing and they are described as, "a blend of bluegrass, old-time country, folk and contemporary acoustic music." The concert starts at 5:30 p.m. If bluegrass isn't your style, the Peabody Rivertop has a hip hop concert with DJ Tre’ Day. There's a $5 cover.
• The FOCAL booksale is being held at the main library (100 Rock street) Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They have around 200,000 books for sale. Go early to get the best ones.
• This weekend is the Eureka Springs Fat Tire Festival and Heber Springs' Wakefest too.
Have a great weekend...and those other two days in between.

July is animal adoption month. Spring brings the birth of an abundance of kittens and puppies who now need homes. The Humane Society of Pulaski County is celebrating by including a gift basket of goodies, a cute silver tag, and a coupon for a free dog wash with every adoption.

Getting a shelter pet is great. You get to give an animal a chance at a home and you get a great loving pet. About 25% of shelter animals are purebred.

The shelter fees may seem "expensive." The fees are more than getting a free animal from a classified ad, but you get the animal's vaccinations in most cases, a spay/neuter operation and you get to help other homeless animals because your adoption fee goes to support shelter operations.

I'm in the market for a cat. I'll be heading down to a shelter (or two) later this week to find one. Check out my list of shelters to do the same.

Arkansas has made it into a Sacha Baron Cohen film. In his latest film, "Brüno," Cohen portrays Arkansans as stereotypical drunken rednecks, and some have called it the funniest film of the year. Reviewers have also called it the most offensive film of the year, which is typical of Cohen's work. Maybe Arkansas shouldn't feel too bad about being targeted.

The film takes a look at the debate over homosexuality through the eyes of an Austrian fashion journalist. From most reviews I've read, everyone comes off looking like a biggot, not just Arkansans.

I haven't seen the film, but an article in the Southwest Times Record says:

Placards went up announcing an evening’s entertainment featuring dollar beer and caged fighting at the Fort Smith Convention Center. Hundreds of old boys lined up for those enjoyments. [which were filmed]

“Bruno,” a gay Austrian fashion designer, stepped into the cage and challenged a fellow to a fight. Right there in front of hundreds of drunken ruffians, the fight inevitably turned to mutual attraction and near-lovemaking, to homoerotica, between Bruno and his combatant-turned-lover.

Apparently, Cohen also filmed the crowd's reaction to the event. I can imagine what a convention center full of drunken, violent "old boys" looked like.

I think this sums it up nicely, actually:

Cohen had staged a similar event a few nights before in Texarkana, but Fort Smith earned more screen time on account of more impressively thrown plastic beer cups and chairs.

I think I'll wait for the film to be available on Netflix. Cohen's "Borat" was ok, and this film sounds very similar. Most accounts say it's even more crude than "Borat." Something tells me I might want to be able to fast forward through it.

It's time to vote for the people's choice movie for movies in the park. Movies in the Park is a free summer event in Little Rock. Family friendly movies are shown on a projection screen in Riverfest Amphitheater.

People's choice is the last movie of the season, and it's voted on by the people via the website. Your choices are: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "The Notebook," "Twilight," "The Goonies," "The Dark Knight," "Kung Fu Panda," "Smokey and the Bandit," "Meet the Parents," "Dreamgirls," "Madagascar" and "Ghostbusters". So far, "The Goonies" is winning.

I'm campaigning for "Ghostbusters." Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night? Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic? Have you or your family ever seen a spook, spectre or ghost? If the answer is "yes," then don't wait another minute. Pick up the phone and call the professionals.

The Goonies are not good enough!

Go on their website and vote today. The winner will be shown August 5th and it's free for you and your family to attend.