French surrealism on a rainy Monday.

Watched "The Triplets of Belleville", which comes out on DVD tomorrow. Talk about your strange little birds. Sylvain Chomet's animated feature concerns a grandmother who raises her grandson to be a championship bicyclist. While riding in the Tour De France, he is kidnapped by two square-shouldered goons and brought to Belleville, a bizarre amalgam of New York and Montreal to be used in betting competitions by the French Wine Cartel. With me still? Okay, well, the grandmother and her spectacularly obese bloodhound follow the goons to Belleville, where the grandmother, penniless and homeless, takes shelter with the title characters, three bizarre old ladies who were a vaudevillian song and dance team in the 1930s. To tell more would be unfair, because this movie truly has to be seen. The character designs are very well done, and much of the film is akin to cartoons of the 30s and 40s in style. There is very little dialogue, but the film is so well done that you don't need it. You just sit back and let it push you along. I can't recommend this movie highly enough.

Watched quite a bit of boxing this weekend. The most impressive fighters this weekend were Kelvin "Koncrete" Davis, a cruiserweight who, despite his 5'7" frame, completely dominated Ezra Sellers, who was probably a good 6-8" taller; and Kermit Cintron, a welterweight who rolled to an easy 6th round TKO over Elio Ortiz Saturday afternoon on NBC. The only problems with these two:

For Davis, the fact that the cruiserweight division's only really a legitimate division in the WWE. Cruiserweight tends to be the division that you pass through on your way up or down in weight, and at 5'7", he's probably going to have to go down in weight.

For Cintron, the fact that he's still fairly unproven, despite a 21-0 record. After this fight, he should get a shot at someone a little higher in the rankings, maybe a top ten, but he's not quite a title contender yet. He wants Zab Judah or Cory Spinks, but I don't think he'll get that fight yet.

Watching Raw at the moment. So far, same old stuff, but Vince is in the building, which to me bodes ill for the Benoit/HBK main event.