This Afternoon: Spin the Bottle, Jr., at the Annex Theatre

Duck Soup? A little beyond Little Miss Seattlest, who spent the first half hour of the movie asking "when are they going to start hitting each other?"

In other words, our child has sophisticated tastes. Verbal humor? Not as good as pure kinetic entertainment.

One boon of parenting in a hipster town: Kid-friendly versions of stuff you can no longer stay up late enough to see by yourself. Circus Contraption's kid show last year was gold, which is why we're excited about going to Spin the Bottle, Jr., at the Annex.

At 2:00 this afternoon, we get "a little music, a little dance, a little theater, a little film, and a little who-know-what-to-call-it, all in one sparkling sitting."

And we don't have to stay up late! (Though 2:00 might interfere with some kids' nap times, so it's almost the same thing.)

It's just $5 a person, grown-up or kidlet, to see "dancing amid marshmallow peeps," the Elegant Catastrophe Singers, Evan Flory Barnes, S.J. Chiro’s short film “Little Red Riding Hood,” Jana Healy, "strange and spooky fairy tales from Bret Fetzer," "sleeping bag sumo wrestling," and more.