This started as a brief email to my grandparents about a potential bounced check and, as often happens with me, soon turned into this monster (financial drabble deleted, natch) Seems about the only way I update this thing lately.

I was getting over a rotten head cold this weekend and finally got to a few Netflix offerings I had been sitting on for ( Read more... )

Newest op-ed is up, and I got particular praise from the editor for this one; he also says the Sports Column is receiving good reviews as well. I'd really like to get this one on the "Most Viewed" and/or "Most Emailed" lists this week, so send it to your friends and all that good jazz. I am living on fumes, and had to opt out of seeing The Drowsy ( Read more... )

I realize, after going over old entries to tag them (I'm now back to early 2006), that I have neglected my film capsule (or sometimes longer) reviews. Here are a couple from recent viewings, for the heck of it (I now post capsule reviews on Facebook/Flixster).
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I also realize my readership is way down from where it used to be. Granted, my life was ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a pretty crummy day at work, forgetting to copy something and having one of the trainers passive-aggressively chiding me while I played catch-up (I'm really good at fixing fuckups though without anyone being the wiser, so it worked). Then I went to campus to get the mail with Cheryl and got a $50 parking ticket, then had to appeal it ( Read more... )

The APLA benefit Oscar Viewing Party The Envelope Please (hosted by Jennifer Love Hewitt, which means she was there) was a blast, even more so the second time around. Barrett picked me up at three and we drove over there and for once our names were on the list...can we say free valet parking? So we were among the first to arrive but that just meant ( Read more... )

I knew I wouldn't be prepared for Golden Globe film nominees, having not gotten out to cinemas this year, but I HAVE done my TV research, that's for sure. So what do they do? Nominate all the Showtime/HBO/FX/Other Cable series. I always did have an issue with cable shows being put against regular network shows, since the latter have stricter " ( Read more... )

The chill outside reminds me of the tornado on Desperate Housewives. Let's hope I don't end up with a stake through MY heart!

Due to problems with the temp agency losing my background check authorization form, I don't start work until next Monday. That's a week of money not coming in, which means I'm going to press to work over break for some extra ( Read more... )

The first trailer for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd looks fantastic! The orchestra is gorgeous and Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter look to be a lot of fun. And it sounds like Depp can actually sing, if not as heartily as Cariou or Hearn. Can't wait (apparently even Sondheim is happy)!

Thank goodness for AMC's Seven Nights of Hitchcock. Now I remember how hot the guy macking on Janet Leigh in the beginning of Psycho is. Plus I think Tony Perkins was kinda cute too. Did you know the weird gangly awkward guy from Legally Blonde is his son? And I had a total crush on Farley Granger in Rope...and he was gay too! *Sigh*

I've made it clear I'm sitting out the Oscars this year. After seeing Dreamgirls today because it's been months since I've seen a movie in the cinema, I won't be as crushed as I would have been if Jennifer Hudson does walk off with my Oscar for her first (maybe last?) film performance. It's not all her fault: the editor and director made her ( Read more... )