Shutter Island was a good flick. It's 1953 and two federal marshals are sent to Shutter Island, off Boston, to a hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the report of a missing patient. The movie trailers didn't do it justice. Suspenseful and riveting to the end, which is, I think, perfect.

Grizzly Man is a 2005 documentary about Timothy ( Read more... )

Happily, my new netbook is set up thanks to Jim Freund (I tried it and it works. Yay!) and my printer four in one has been set up by Matt Kressel. And it works. Another yay--thanks guys.

Hoping a friend will take the HP printer off my hands soon.

Finished The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which I loved. I think I'm glad I saw the movie first ( Read more... )

I watched this 1987 movie for the first time since it came out--because jezebel had an article about it as a feminist movie, and a movie that deals very much with class.

It was fabulous --Jennifer Grey (you should never have had your distinctive nose fixed--it DID destroy your budding career). Patrick Swayze--oh, what a bod. Jerry Orbach ( Read more... )

Last week was very busy, with several friends from out of town and much socializing. Tuesday afternoon Jeremy, Amelia, and Joe Monti came over for vodka shots until we went to meet several other NY publishing folk at Hill Country barbecue. I tried desperately not to over-order, having been there once when they first opened. But despite sharing ( Read more... )