Sometimes the pudding is much better than the supposed proof. This is the case with Ang Lee's Life of Pi , based on a book which Barac...

I dreamt last night I was a pregnant woman working in the Palace of Versailles, which had been converted into an automobile garage. I reme...

Turns out school is a lot easier when you're not busy chasing girls and preoccupied by various other bits of teenage bullshit--I see to-...

Now let us go back to that year of myth and wonder, 1985. Or so that year seems in Seth MacFarlane's Ted , set in Boston at a time whe...

Now let us go back to that year of myth and wonder, 1965. Or so that year seems in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom , set on the beauti...

So Friday was a pretty eventful night. After the movie, I went to the grocery store and afterwards hit a bicyclist with my car as I went thr...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a pretty good movie. If you like Middle Earth stories, like me, it's even better. It probably woul...

In Connecticut to-day, as you no doubt know, a man has shot and killed 27 people including 20 young children at an elementary school. In Ch...

So now I can go back to reading Moby Dick . Yet I keep thinking about Washington Irving. I may post my term paper here in a couple days--n...

I guess this'll be my last blog from the school Tech Mall for a while. How sad. I'm so tired. I got up too early, added a paragraph ...

Busy to-day working on my term paper, which I'm halfway through writing. I suppose I should also study to-day for to-morrow's Astron...

What's he been doing, Precious? Reading his bookses? Yes, Precious, he has! Until late last night, and then during lunch and tea after c...

I was having a dream last night about a group of elephants distressed at their inability to drink due to the fact that they lacked trunks. I...

When one thinks about abortion in the early 1960s, one is likely to think of the social stigma attached to it and the necessity for women ...

I feel like Washington Irving would've really liked The Big Lebowski . It occurs to me, after finishing The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Cray...

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The c...

The negative reviews for the first Hobbit movie are actually one of the first items to give me hope about them. I love how so many of these...

There's maybe one truly innocent person in 1946's Black Angel , but most of the characters are people who have ruthlessly, relucta...

I saw this at Wal-Mart to-day when I was getting my oil change. I guarantee there are thousands of homophobes who think this thing's u...

I dreamt last night I lived on a curb, halfway up a hill at the top of which was a French cafe and at the bottom of which Neil Gaiman was tr...