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I’m back at home, and back into the swing of things… though I barely left it, actually. This year’s Stratford-upon-Avon trip was more of a change of scenery than a vacation: I did almost as much work as I would have done at home, and saw almost as many plays — five — in ten … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s nice that LeBron James made the big time. I wonder if the film makes the point that even though our culture holds out pro sports as a possible option for escaping poverty, very very few people can make it the way he did. It’s not even … more…
Not only do I not understand how this David Letterman blackmail thing is a story, I don’t understand how it’s blackmail. Are we so fucked up as a culture that merely the suggestion that someone is having sex with a willing, of-age partner — and not even one of the same gender! — is something … more…
Take a look back at an old trailer… This charming 1949 movie is about a district in London just after WWII that decides it’s an independent nation, and sets up separating itself from England. It’s a hilarious satire on the deprivations of the postwar period and the frustrations Londoners were experiencing with their government at … more…
Thursday was a day of recovery from the Bataan death march of a round trip to London on Wednesday. Nigel and I spent most of the day working in the wifi-enabled McKechnies coffeeshop, which is pretty boring for a Charity Pig. But in the evening we went to dinner at Lamb’s of Sheep Street with … more…
President Obama, we already know that health care is strangling us. You don’t need to tell us. Do something about it. Go get righteous on the people who are holding up the process. And stop talking about making it easy for everyone to buy insurance. Insurance is the problem, not the solution. And you know … more…
Roman Polanski, rapist, arrested. There’s nothing else to talk about this week in The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy… and maybe get enraged.
[previous] It was a trip to London for Nigel the Charity Pig on Wednesday, mostly for two shows — a matinee and an evening — with a quick bit of touring and some visiting with friends along the way. At the Stratford-upon-Avon train station, early in the AM: Settling in for the long ride, and … more…
Jes chillin’… Bet you don’t have your own theme song.
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.
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