Some years, we make the effort, and this was one. After the Oscar Nominations, I printed out the list and we made a good faith effort to see all the big stuff. By this past weekend we'd seen all of the Animated Features, most of the acting nominations (sorry, Penelope Cruz), and all the best …
Month: March 2022
Crumbling Eyeballs
So, last October, I was warming up at home for a concert that night and suddenly I got floaters in my right eye. I'd never had them before, but I knew what they were. This was like having a tangle of hair wafting vaguely back and forth. "Well, fuck", I opined. So I scheduled an …
Sproing
As a kid, I had a book of 'B.C.' comics. Alas, a quick Google does not find this particular strip, but BC is standing in snow, and a flower sprouts right beside him with a "sproing" sound effect. Flower has a little bit of snow on top of it. BC: looks at flower Flower: Sproing …
West Side Story 2021
We saw it! We really liked it! I'm somewhat surprised that C liked it as much as he did - he's the first to not like new versions because they're not identical to the old ones. But it's really good. I don't think it supplants the 1961 version, delighted to have both of them. Interesting, …
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