Read ‘em and weap

As most of you know, I’m a reader. As long as I can remember, I’ll read anything you put in front of me. Like some people who shall remain nameless (liz) are always following their favorite Jessica Simpson, I read. I read books. Lots of books. I read magazines. Lots of em. (I think I [...]

Michael Clayton

Maybe I missed something while watching this movie. (If I did, my wife missed the same things.) Everything I’d heard about this movie was about how great it was, how great the acting was, how it was well written, etc. Well… It was an ok movie, but I wouldn’t let the word “great” anywhere near [...]

Hotlanta, Philly and college basketball

Had to make what was supposed to be a quick trip to Atlanta and back at the beginning of this week. As it turns out, flying into Bangor in February is not the easiest thing in the world, so I got held over in Philly on Tuesday. Other than the missed work time, that didn’t [...]

La Vie en Rose

La Vie en Rose is a French Bio-epic about Edith Piaf.
I couldn’t watch this movie without flashing back constantly to my high school and middle school French teacher, Madame Clowes. She was French-Canadian, and loved to shower us with French culture. She showed us the Tour de France, French tv shows. I saw my first [...]

Gone baby gone

There’s been a lot of movie posts recently, because, ummm, we’ve been watching a lot of movies. I like to watch the Oscars, and I like to have watched at least some of the big Oscar movies. Since I live in Bangor, generally I get to wait until they get out on DVD.
Gone, baby, gone [...]

An old man friday night

Yeah, so the wife’s out of town, so I figured, what the hey, might as tie one on, right?
Or…
I could work until 8, walk the dog, drink some wine, and catch up on Lost episodes (pretty good so far this season.)
Maybe later, if I’m feeling crazy, I’ll get after some late night shoveling.
Sweet!!!

Juno

I think most people have probably heard of, and made their opinion about Juno already. Probably, most people who thought they would like it have seen it already. So.. I’m not going to spend a ton of time on this movie, other than to say, I wanted to see Juno, but I wasn’t sure how [...]

3:10 to Yuma

There are two types of Westerns in my mind. There are the westerns that gloss over the difficulties of life, and those that attempt to portray what it was actually like to grind out a life against an unyielding environment. Most westerns fall into the first category, including just about (but not all) of John [...]

Mean spiritedness…

Look, I am not a fan of Roger Clemens. But the tone of some of the coverage of his hearing this past week verges on the idiotic and mean spirited. He may have done what he is accused of, but there is not a court of law in the land that would convict him based [...]

a much needed weekend

I don’t get sick very often, in fact I can’t remember the last time I actually had a cold, or the flu, or anything like that. What tends to happen to me, is that I get bouts of insomnia that add up until I need to sleep for like 15 hours. The last week though, [...]