What does it take to finally drag my ass to An Inconvenient Truth? It’s been on the top of my list for months, but somehow there’s never a good time to be completely bummed out. What it takes is a heat wave in NYC and the desire to escape to a place with better air-con then exists in my apartment. With that hypocritical notion in play, my wife and I headed out to the 7:30pm showing of the sizzling Al Gore movie, and, as reported most everywhere (though David Denby’s New Yorker review is one of the best—scroll to the bottom of the link), we were blown away.
It’s incredible. It’s intense. It kind of a thriller. It’s ultimately optimistic. Go see it. But you knew this already.

No shock when I picked up today’s Wall Street Journal (registration required so no link) to read a piece about the origin of the Al Gore’s Penguin Army, the video spoofing Gore’s movie that’s a YouTube sensation. It’s creator? Someone listed only as a “Toutsmith.” Who is this so-called Smith? The Journal did some digging and traces the email to a computer registered to the DCI Group, a Washington, DC-based PR firm that flaks for none other than — take a good guess — Exxon.