[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_KrSWI8F2E I’d heard about Christopher Guest, so when For Your Consideration came out three years ago I thought I’d better try him. I was so underwhelmed I didn’t approach his movies again until I got bored this year, decided to give him another shot, and watched Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. I repeat:…
I never thought I’d say this, but here’s my answer to the reading slump: Stop reading. About three weeks ago, I had a period of major crunching, and for two solid weeks I didn’t read a thing. My review books lay sulking on the table. The books I’d borrowed from friends were abandoned. Comfort reads…
Personally, if only given one choice I’d far prefer a bad beginning to a bad ending. The beginning sets the stage and opens the book, but who are we kidding? We’re romance readers. The ending’s the clincher. The ending’s our couple’s future. It’s the reader’s conviction that everything we just read is legit. If I…
I remember when I learned music in school, my teachers drew stave lines on the blackboard with a handy little wire gadget in which you insert five pieces of chalk, parallel to each other, and hey presto! 5 parallel lines = music stave. But times have changed. And now we use whiteboards instead of blackboards….
I was reading J. D. Robb’s Promises in Death, and suddenly the lines of an early Stephen Sondheim song ran through my head: Once I hated this city/Now it can’t get me down Slushy, humid and gritty/What a pretty town…. A wall of rain as it turns to sleet/The lack of sun on a one-way…
Now, I know you can interpret the title two ways: One, I really need to get out more; or Two, I’m incredibly shallow. But the truth is plain and simple – a good haircut makes me feel like a million dollars. I was, literally, bouncing out of the hairdresser’s. I was doing the hair swish…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi0K0V-SBEc This video is not lying. In fact, it’s about the clearest explanation of cricket I’ve ever gotten. Which is about as clear as mud. Cricket is nuts.
The NYT used to be my go-to site for movie reviews, but of late I find myself bored with their determined cynicism. However, I do have to agree with Manohla Dargis’s summary of Pixar’s latest creation: Though the initial images of flight are wonderfully rendered…the movie remains bound by convention….This has become the Pixar way. Passages…
Coming to New Zealand has been a wonderful culinary experience, amongst other things. Meat pies! Kumara! Pickle! Steak and egg burgers! (Only one of the above exclamation marks is sarcastic.) Most of these so-called discoveries are common to Commonwealth countries, I presume, but living in Canada many of the British influences have been submerged by…
When I have nothing to talk about, I can always rely on Lush. LUSH, for those of you who have managed to live without it all this time, is a British cosmetics store that has grown immensely in both product range and location. It started out as mail order soap company around the 80s and…
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