For months, I have had all of these serious lists half-done. Stuff about social movements and the economy and gun violence and the like. I work on them off and on, I think I’m going to jump into them, but then I get depressed and choose to spare myself. Reality in this country has been…
Catchy radio hits are a dime a dozen. Sometimes, literally. As long as physical music transporters, i.e. CDs, still exist, you’ll be able to find the most popular music of the day in cheapie bins at used music stores and at yard sales. Songs with great lyrics are a rarer species, but not like a…
You won’t believe the things that Olympia Dukakis says in Cloudburst. If you can get through the entire movie without your mouth flopping open at least once, your jaw has stronger hinges than mine. It’s dialogue is written and delivered to shock, the turns in the plot designed to set up the next big joke….
Throughout my life, I’ve been blessed – and cursed – with rather vivid dreams. I can’t qualify them as “extremely” or “extraordinarily” vivid dreams, because I don’t spend a whole lot of time in other people’s dreamscapes, but I do know that they are vivid. When I was pretty young, early elementary school-age, I had…
That’s right. I am going straight for the cuteness jugular. Animals and then bay-behs. It’s like plying a weak heart with fast food and ciggies. So, here you go, catching up for August 12-18. May your heart grow three to six sizes and conceivably explode with butterflies from the cheerful adorableness of it all. 7…