If you didn't know already, next Wednesday, April 9, Soroptomist International will be holding a fundraiser, "Take a Walk in Her Shoes," to give prominent male members of the community an inkling of what it's like to be a woman -- or at least to know what it feels like to wear high heels. (For details see the NCJ's calendar section this week.)

In the same shoe vein, trolling YouTube today for recently-posted Humboldt-related videos, I ran across Leftshoe the Bunny Slipper (parts 1 and 2), which, perhaps for the first time in cinematic history, narrates the vicissitudes of a slipper's life. The film -- a slipper rather than a sleeper hit-- was shot on location in HumCo in 2006 and directed by Montel VanderHorck III of Mercy Me Productions , Arcata. It's full of sole and worth watching: