Okay, now this is funny. I’m not sure where it showed up first, but I found it here. Continue reading Seems like I’m caught up in your trap again, seems like I’ll be wearing the same old chains
Last summer I regaled the online community with my sad tale of a childhood habit transformed into a lifelong obsession. Entitled Confessions of a Comics Reader, I detailed the multitude of times since my youthful consumption of paneled wonders in … Continue reading Confessions of a Comics Reader: The Relapse!
Okay, since already tipped my pitches, I will relent and take time tomorrow to explain this– –in the context of last summer’s gripping five-part series. Tomorrow: The Stunning Return of Confessions of a Comics Reader. Continue reading You’ll remember me tomorrow, but you won’t give a damn by Wednesday Week
#35 — Brick (Rian Johnson, 2006) Sometimes movies use dialogue to capture how we do talk, wallowing in the stammers, the pauses, the redundancies. False starts and restless thinking out loud intermingle, obscuring the exposition and banter while also lending … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Five
Due credit: I found this elsewhere. (Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”) Continue reading I know a guy who’s tough but sweet, he’s so fine he can’t be beat
“I tried to give advice, I really did. Nothing too complicated. Like, Stop hollering at strange girls on the street, and don’t bring up the Beyonder any more than necessary. Did he listen? Of course not! Trying to talk sense to Oscar about girls was like trying to throw rocks at Unus the Untouchable. Dude was impenetrable. He’d hear me out and then shrug. Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself.” –Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 2007 “NEVER HAVE I HEARD SUCH WORDS…SENSED SUCH COURAGE…OR KNOWN THIS STRANGE FEELING…THIS NEW EMOTION…! THERE … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
Yesterday, I wrote some unkind things about the central Florida city that was my home for six years. In the interest of equal time, I should allow that there were plenty of places down there that we did like, that, in fact, I’ve missed since we’ve moved on. There are some good bars, BBQ shacks, and at least one constantly evolving coffee shop. There’s also a very nice movie theater that was our first real exposure to the sort of full-service evening out that is becoming more common in the land of moviegoing. The Enzian was probably the first place … Continue reading One for Friday: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, “Wig in a Box”
My oh my, it’s been quite some time since we’ve dived into this: For the uninitiated, this is a box of mementos that I’ve been dragging around for years. Some time ago, I decided it was time to get rid … Continue reading The chest that once was full of hope is now a box of memories
(Found thanks to “The Daily Dish.”) Continue reading I just might believe that they’re real
#36 — Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) A persuasive argument can be made that all movies–all fiction movies, anyway–are individual testimonies to the wonders of the imagination. Ideas are given form and motion, emotions are conveyed in bold, almost … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Six
