Have you ever wished ABBA could be your life guides, there in the tough times with words of advice, leaping out of your bedroom wardrobe to give you company when you’re all alone, and, of course, singing you into a better frame of mind with songs like “Dancing Queen”, Continue Reading
Book review: The Lustre of Lost Things by Sophie Chen Keller
Walter Lavender Jr is a remarkable young man. Gifted with a preternatural ability to locate missing objects in a dazzlingly wide variety of circumstances the length and breadth of New York City, he lives with his mother Lucy at a bakery where the pastries and desserts come alive with Continue Reading
Movie review: Goodbye Christopher Robin
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t spend their childhood, in some form or another, wandering through the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet and the rest of A. A. Milne’s wonderful coterie of honey-loving friends. There was something, and still Continue Reading
Happy Birthday Bert! (5 months late) #SesameStreet
I love birthdays. My birthday. Other peoples’ birthdays. And pop culture characters birthdays. If it involves cake, friends and a party, real or imagined I am there with figurative bells on (or depending on the party, actual bells). I also don’t restrict these celebrations to the actual day of Continue Reading
Now this is upbeat fun music: Dagny, Isador, Blonde Maze, Saints of Valory, Striking Matches
It’s my birthday! Well. really my birthday eve since the big day is actually tomorrow when I shall be an age that I shall not reveal, but close enough. And of course, being a birthday, that means there must be joy, celebration and some thoughtful rumination on life’s great Continue Reading
Party on! Simon’s Cat’s guide to happy birthdays
Simon’s Cat knows how to party! Decorate like crazy (and play with the balloons naturally while you do!), invite good friends over with whom you spend copious amounts of time, treat yo’self (use Community as your guide), read and respond to all the messages … and presents! It goes Continue Reading
Movie review: The Meyerowitz Stories
As much as we like to believe in the idea of “one big happy family”, the reality is that even the most functional and well-adjusted of families have a stubborn streak of dysfunction running through them. Perhaps it’s the inevitable outcome of flawed humanity, or of an innate predilection Continue Reading
“Heavens to Murgatroyd!” Snagglepuss is reborn as a gay Southern playwright #comics
SNAPSHOT “Snagglepuss in this story is having to live a double life as a gay playwright living in New York, and he’s closeted. But he has values and integrity as an artist, and he’s trying to stand up for people who otherwise would be shoved under the stairs in Continue Reading
Book review: In Every Moment We Are Alive by Tom Malmquist
When someone very close to you dies, it’s entirely natural for people to extend their condolences, to offer their love and support in any way they can and to be present with you in your emotionally-enervating moment of grief and loss. It’s a brief bubble when loving arms envelop Continue Reading
Star Wars: Designing a Universe of Sound (video essay)
By any estimation Star Wars is a cinematic landmark. Through its 40 years of history – yes fellow 1977 viewers of the first movie we are, in fact, that old – George Lucas’s franchise, now ensconsed in and being given new life by Disney who have dramatically stepped production Continue Reading