Sick Day – Movie Day
Each of us spent the long weekend fighting sinus cold; for me and Kiddo it peaked yesterday. Today, though, we maintained “hang mode” and ended up watching a collection of Continue Reading →
Category Archives: movies
Goodbye Mr. Hoffman
Celebrities come and go all the time but sometimes, someone will die and it will be a gut-punch for me. Today, it was Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He was more or Continue Reading →
December 23rd Santa Claus vs. Godzilla
Can Santa fare better than Bambi….? Christmas may depend on it! The End of the World Christmas Special from Simon Fallavollita on Vimeo. BONUS FLOTSAM: Not festive, but related. 😉
End of an Era and One More Icon lost.
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid “The moment after I learned I had been named Person of the Year by the Webby Awards, I remembered that my acceptance speech, Continue Reading →
Favourite Films
We own hundreds of movies and have seen hundreds more… I honestly cannot guess how many movies I’ve watched over the years. I’ve written dozens of reviews and sometimes this Continue Reading →
Road Trip Fever
We made it through a whole summer without a road trip — well, one very rushed day-trip to Richmond but nothing compared to previous years’ travels. I find I feel Continue Reading →
Retroactively Better
Over at Love-Hate-Things a couple of weeks ago, Anthony Marco asked, “Does the Avengers make Thor a better movie?” I surprised myself by immediately answering, “Yes! And Captain America too! Continue Reading →
Channeling Edgar Allan Poe
I discovered, while poking around my docs folders, a longish, rhymed poem-in-progress. As I read it I started to tweak things here and there and eventually added several new verses. Continue Reading →
Last of the Single Screens
One of the albums that defined my tween-hood was Styx Paradise Theater. For those not familiar with it, it was a “concept album,” that is the songs collectively told a Continue Reading →
New and notable
While I am getting ready for WordCamp and trying to keep all the other balls in the air, I have been trying to procrastinate in a creative way — still Continue Reading →