A While Back,

I spent about a solid week watching food documentaries during the boys' naptime. By Wednesday of that week, Andrew would come home after work and ask, "So, what subversive food documentary did you watch today?" He gots jokes. Among the ones I watched (that I remember) were

• King Corn (which now has a follow-up I haven't seen), (also I wasn't able to finish this one due to the dry narration...)
• Food, Inc. (which is at least as gross the fictional Fast Food Nation),
• Food Matters (rather different from the rest in that it focuses on the link between food and overall bodily health), and
• The Future of Food (another one that put me to sleep but that was nonetheless interesting).

When I started my little mini-food-doc-athon last fall, I didn't due so purposely; I just found that I had the time and inclination to watch these particular films that were already in my Netflix queue. And now I seem to have done it again, watching a documentary each day this week (this time mostly because of the lack of good summer programming on TV). So far, I've watched

• The Lottery - a heartbreaking look at four kids trying to win a spot at a New York charter school, mostly heartbreaking not because all the kids can't get in but because such schools face fierce opposition from the politically-driven public school system. Sigh.
• I.O.U.S.A - a startling look at our nation's deficit and lack of hustle to make hard decisions to get back on track financially.
• Body of War - Today's pick, which I won't finish before work, which follows a severely injured Iraq war veteran as he travels across the country speaking against the Iraq war all the while learning to live with his still new injury-related medical issues.

I came to a realization about myself last night: I'm a documentary watcher. I hadn't thought of myself as such, as I tend to stick to the more "mainstream, cross-over docs," but more and more I'm realizing I'm kind of a geek.

Interesting.

I wonder what this means for the children...