THE FUTURE IS NOW

To the childless among you, here is a grainy, inkjet-on-fax-paper glimpse of your future. Be warned: It's not a pretty sight.

We have seen our future, and it involves robotic, purportedly musical mice, pizza with the same consistency as wallboard, a palpable atmosphere of youthful euphoria mingled with a tangy dash of grownup despair, and lots and lots of screaming.

Oh yeah, and we went to Chuck-E-Cheese's for the first time, too.