Random thoughts while waiting on the Time Warner internet guy who’s coming to install a cable modem. It’s because of the erratic outages in our formerly Verizon DSL line that we’re getting the cable modem one installed, so it’s ironic that the day before installation, Time Warner has massive outages. Went to see Eat, Pray, [...]

Some quick thoughts as the 50 degree Ohio skies try to melt the entrenched ice and snow around our property. I grew up loving to watch to these on late nights with my mom in b&w in Akron, OH, so every movie looked like Casablanca. There was no E! or ET! to provide red carpet [...]

Promise–new personal and personalized blog entry coming. Must read! In the meantime, repurposed content:

I noticed, now that I am home sick and able to read stuff that I want to or must, that some sites are posting half-year best lists. So I will too, ahead of the public demand that I do so. “That way I control my own destiny, which is my fondest wish.” (Not true.) Contents [...]

Flannery O’Connor greatest, most strange and wonderful work made into a film by John Huston will be released in its Criterion edition May 12th. Yay. It contains a 29 minute recording of her reading her short stort, “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Party at our house. Who’s in?

Here it is. My lists. The one liners are just meant to suggest why they are here. Ultimately, why you may like something different or why I may like something too much—well, that’s what makes me me and you you. And why it is fun to be with you in this universe. Be sure to [...]

The remake of this fabled movie of the 50s comes out at Christmas starring Keanu Reeves. Hey, why not Samuel L. Jackson? It has one of my favorite robots, Gort, in it. I don’t know what the robot in the remake looks like, but I don’t think he could be scarier than Gort. One of [...]

This is my first review, so please, don’t be too hard on my grandpa as he tries to transcribe it for me. I am very clever and can use a series of sighs, cries, and whispers (Grandpa said that that itself was a “clever allusion” to some Swedish guy’s movie, but my Grandma Joan is [...]

John Cusack Vanity Fair, June 2008 Who are your heroes in real life? Let’s go with Jesus. Not the gay-hating, war-making political tool of the right, but the outcast, subversive and supreme adept who preferred the freaks and lepers and despised and doomed to the rich and powerful. The man Garry Wills describes “with the [...]

Non Sports TV Shows I Tried Not to Miss 1. Pushing Daisies (Is this show really on the air?) 2. Dexter (Creepy but somehow satisfying morality play) 3. Heroes (All but the last episode) 4. Flight of the Conchords (Mostly innocent fun) 5. The Andy Richter Show (already history) 6. 24 (Two back to back [...]