At the request of frequent reader and commenter WK Maier, this will be an open thread, for all you Cultcha Vulchtas. It’s open to commentary and recommendations on high brow, low brow and no brow stuff.

WK wants to get something off his chest about Lindsey Lindsay Lohan, and that’s fine. He says he recently saw The Last King of Scotland, the film about Didi Amin, starring Forrest Whittaker. How was it?

I liked Whittaker in Ghost Dog as much for the outside quotations from Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure as for the script in the film which was quirky but fun. His reprise (The Enemy Within) of Kirk Douglas’s Jiggs Casey in Seven Days in May disappointed me. Perhaps the story line is starker in back and white.

Any thoughts on all of this?

A secondary threadline since we’re talking about African-Americans and Scotland: Who has seen Formula 51?

UPDATE: The spelling of Lindsay Lohan's first name was corrected. I deeply regret the error. If someone can wake her up, and stand her up, please direct her to this apology.