I wish I would have thought to give people more of a heads up that Lourdes was a comedy. It took many of our guests a little too long to realize that, although director Jessica Hausner was not taking cheap shots at Catholicism, she was taking shots at it’s followers, in a sly way. “Sly”… in researching Lourdes, I came upon more than one reviewer who used the word “sly” to describe the movie. Not a word that’s frequently used in movie reviews, the Princeton wordnet dictionary defines sly as: crafty: marked by skill in deception; “cunning men often pass for wise”; “deep political machinations”; “a foxy scheme”; “a slick evasive answer”; “sly as a fox”; “tricky Dick”; “a wily old attorney”. Fair enough. I like “tricky Dick” the best.

Aprez-MN saw the birth of a new cocktail, tentatively named the Bloody Marytini. Details to follow after further testing.

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