From the category archives:
I wanted to like it. I wanted to like it really badly.
So did Dancing Fairy.
We decided it was….. amusing. Ish.
It was amusing-ish in a “Why the Russian accents?” way. And also a “I’d rather watch those little yellow critters” way.
And an “I keep waiting for Steve Carell to be really funny” way.
All of which just [...]
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Unmistaken Child is a truly beautiful and gentle movie. It’s the true story of a Tibetan monk searching for the reincarnation of his master.
You should watch it. Buddha sez.
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This is a great read:
Some of the cover blurbs you can’t see liken this book to ‘Sex in the City.’ Kind of. More like ‘Sex in the City with Way More Clothes and Way Less Sex.’
It’s really enlightening about what it’s like to be a woman in her 20s in a Muslim country. Did you [...]
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This is another post about wrinklereading. But, unlike the last one, it isn’t in whineglish. (Thank you to my seestah for the excellent coinage.)
Last Friday, at about 2 PM, I started reading this:
If ‘utterly engrossing’ means I didn’t stop reading until I finished it at 10 PM, then I’d say, “Why, yes. Yes, it is [...]
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I have RMTD. Reading Material Transitional Disorder. When I’m reading something I really like, I want it to never end. For instance, I’m reading Girls of Riyadh right now, and I can already tell it’s about 700 pages short.
This desire to combine goodness and longness leads me to select books on the basis of weight…
and [...]
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Mr. M and I have discovered the pleasures of the Red Box. You know, the big box by the door of the grocery store that dispenses DVDs. (This is just a brief stop on our way to streaming movies directly from the Internet to the TV. We are gathering the requisite dorknology. Mwah ha ha.)
Saturday [...]
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We’re big fans of everything Christopher Guest, and this bears a distinct resemblance to This is Spinal Tap, except it’s a real documentary. Less intentional humor, much more heart. It’s funny without meaning to be, and deeply touching, and quirky, and FULL of bad 80s hair.
You’ll find yourself caring immensely, at the end, if the [...]
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Mr. Music had a gig on Saturday night, so DF and I went to see Avatar.
Holy moley #2!
We saw it in 2D, because there isn’t a theater in our town showing it in 3D. But, as soon as we got home, we figured out where and when we could see it in an Imax theater. [...]
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I heard this was good. But Mr. M and I were both surprised by exactly how good it was.
Riveting. Funny. Beautiful. Imaginative.
A character in this movie bears a distinct resemblance to Kirk Douglas. You’ll know who I mean when you see him.
Mr. M does imitations. Sometimes, they’re pretty darn funny. Sometimes, they’re just plain creepy.
One [...]
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