Everyone is recovering from the President’s Day weekend down south, it seems … even those of us up north, who did nothing yesterday except see “The Number 23” — yeesh — and write about the Oscars until our noses bled.

Well, some of us did that.

But here’s something for you: Jim Emerson, over at the Chicago Sun-Times’ highly enjoyable Scanners blog, has revived the Pauline Kael debate in honor of last weekend’s contrarianist blog-a-thon.

It’s definitely worth a read, even for people like me who enjoyed reading Kael’s reviews for the prose, rather than the content.

Oh, and my latest Sympatico/MSN DVD column is up. Still not liking “Babel”, though.