It’s the end of summer, and right on schedule my DVR menu is empty and I’ve been reduced to watching reruns of Friends on TBS and Big Brother on CBS three times a week. Yes. I watch Big Brother. Stop judging me. Anyway… Fall TV Season is nearly upon us and it is that time… Read More The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – The New Fall TV Season
Season Four was a game-changer for Supernatural fans. Up until that point it had been the Winchester boys against the world as they worked to avenge their parents’ deaths and then protect each other from the fall out of that battle. Unfortunately, at the end of season three they lost and Dean was sent to… Read More Supernatural – A Beginner’s Guide (Season Four)
When we left the Winchester boys at the Season Two finale, they were battling the fiercest demon they’d ever faced: Possible cancellation Luckily, the show was picked up for a third season and its fans were able to spend 16 episodes (a short season due to the Writers Strike) wondering how the brothers would escape… Read More Supernatural – A Beginner’s Guide (Season Three)
Let’s Review Season One Again! True Confession: This has been the most difficult season to recap because So. Much. Happens. in Season Two! We meet important people. (Ellen, Jo, Andy, Gordon Walker, Ava, Jake, Victor, The Trickster!) Even more important people die. (Some of the deaths are permanent and others not so much.) But again,… Read More Supernatural – A Beginner’s Guide (Season Two)
I love musicals. This is not really a revelation to anyone who knows me, but in searching for a topic for this week’s blog, I realized that in the last few weeks I downloaded the soundtrack to both Guys & Dolls and yet another version of Les Miserables (bringing the total to four separate Les… Read More Soundtrack of My Life
With Roger Ebert’s death this week, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to movie reviews and how difficult they are to write. The same goes for book reviews. I’ve written a few of each in my day and I think the greatest challenge is to explain enough of the plot so that the reader… Read More Writing Movie Reviews
I’m back! Well, technically, I was never gone…I’ve been around but real life has been a little busy and complicated lately so I haven’t had a lot of time to blog. The good news is that most of the complications have been good ones. For instance… I had my first official book reading: I read… Read More Welcome Back Blogger!
Let me start by warning you that there will be spoilers in this post. I know the movie hasn’t been in the theaters very long, but it’s based on a book that was first published in 1862, so if you don’t know the story by now, that’s not my fault. Besides, one of the songs… Read More Les Miserables – One Woman’s Opinion
Have you ever heard of the “meet-cute?” If you’ve seen the movie The Holiday with Kate Winslet or are an obsessive movie fan like myself than there’s a good chance you have. If you haven’t, the “meet-cute” is very simply the part of a movie when boy meets girl in a cute and/or charming way. Think of: Vivian taking Edward’s Lotus… Read More The “Meet-Cute”
Interesting bits and facts from the world at large: ‘Huckleberry Finn’ edition to cut N-word: Seriously, people? Can you say “censorship”? Now there’s a word I’d like to cut out of our vocabulary. Erasing a word doesn’t remove the context or history as to why the word is so repugnant. It merely removes an opportunity to discuss the… Read More News at Large
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