I’m about halfway through this documentary. The material is great, but I’m not sure the film is.

I had one while snowshoeing.

One word: ambrosial.

Is this a great movie? No way. Is it even a good movie? Probably not. But I love funny dumb movies, and I laughed my head off all the way through “Earth Girls are Easy”.

Your eyes will hurt from the pink, turquoise, and black and white stripes, and all those 80s hair and clothing styles that make up the backdrop of this movie.

It was interesting seeing Jim Carrey before he became a big star. But ooh la la, the best part of the cast is the young Jeff Goldblum. My girls think I’m nuts, but he is hot, hot, hot in this film. I could spend some time looking at him with his shirt (and his blue fur) off in this movie.

I saw this movie when it first came out, in Spokane, probably among the most goyische places that would actually have it in a theater. I was probably the only one in the movie theater who had an idea of how Chabad approaches Jews with their form of evangelism.

I loved this movie, probably because it was so strange.

I saw it again recently with my husband, checking it out of the library. It has themes I’m interested in: numbers, Jewish mysticism, the financial marketplace. But I don’t need to drill holes in my head when I have a migraine – the MRI showed I already have a few there.

Since we get CBC on “extended basic”, I was able to see the first episode last night.

I’ll say right now, I haven’t seen a sitcom in years. I mean years. Like, if I were to think of the last sitcom I’ve seen, it’d have to be…MASH? When it was still current? All those sitcoms like Friends (that was a sitcom, right?) and, oh. That’s right, I did see an episode of Seinfeld once, when it was still current, so that might have been about 5 years ago?

Anyway, so let’s put it this way: I don’t have a lot to judge this against. But I thought it was pretty funny. I’m not sure how many cross-cultural jokes they can do – it seems like eventually they’re going to run dry – but I’d be interested to see how long this will go on for.

And I just don’t think most folks have images of “regular” Muslims on TV. You don’t see Muslim worship depicted like it was in this show – a few ordinary folks, doing the usual prayers.

I also spent some time trying to estimate the size of the town. The mayor has a big enough office, the population is big enough to have at least a dozen or so Muslim households – the place can’t be that small. My guess was somewhere in the 10,000 to 50,000 range – a goodly-sized small city, probably relatively large if it really is out in the middle of the prairies.

If nothing else, the actor Zaib Shaikh, who plays the imam, is a hottie.