These snowstorms, for serious. Last Sunday night, we had a reservation for a night in New York. I was gonna sip local cider, cover myself in the crumbles of the world’s greatest (and a very large) gingersnap cookie, see the lights and windows, and, generally, just soak up New York Christmas. On Monday night, we…
– OR (if these were episodes of Friends) – The One Where Emma and Regina are Stronger Than Nature & The One With the Moment Emma Fell in Love with Regina My effort to get two books out in a short period has gotten me behind double, and probably a double-behind too, but sometimes one…
If-then statements. How awesome are they? Because they swing both ways. There’s your geometric, deductive-reasoning style ‘If (blank), then (blank)’, which is factual. As in – If all squares are boxes, and all boxes are black, then all squares are black. – OR – If all super-sexy dancers are Latinas, and all Latinas are hot,…
– OR – When Product Placement Becomes Plot A few weeks ago, when Hook asked Emma how he was portrayed in mainstream media (you know, Disney movies), I really thought they’d hit rock bottom with the shameless plugging and nudge-nudge, wink-winkiness of it all. Then, they quoted just about every easily-recognizable song lyric from The…
– OR – The One Where Hook Outs Himself as a Creeper and Still Gets the Stamp of Parental Approval Mike Birbiglia has this classic joke. He talks about moving into a new apartment and having his bed loaded on the elevator when a woman gets on with him. The woman is relieved at seeing…
When the troupe spends two-thirds of the episode in the same cave, and the episode is Bae-Neal/Rumple-centric, there simply isn’t much to see. Unless you totally adore a constantly righteous, self-sacrificing youth as a character. Not that I’m saying that’s Baelfire. That’s just how he’s being written. Now, while I enjoy the fact that Regina has…