Sitting here working on the laptop, while the girlfriend is watching a documentary on Netflix called Dad’s In Heaven With Nixon. So far it actually looks pretty interesting. The dude who made the documentary, Tom Murray, has an autistic brother, Chris, who is the subject of the film. Chris is 50-years old in the film. He is an artist. He is a rad, nice dude. Their dad had anger issues, but they loved him. As Netflix described the film, “Using his artistic brother’s colorful art as inspiration, documentarian Tom Murray paints a portrait of his family’s complex struggle with his brother’s brain damage, his mother’s unwillingness to accept it, and his father’s inability to cope with it.”

Don’t get the wrong idea from the Netflix description though, the family loved each other, and his mom seems like a cool old lady and mother, regardless of her “unwillingness to accept it.”

Here is a better review than mine, a NYTimes article about the film: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/arts/television/06dad.html