I have left Canada and am visiting my folks for a bit before returning to Boston. For those of you who will miss the cute kid stories, I'm sorry. For those of you who were alarmed by my LJ being taken over by so many cute kid stories, you can relax. This experience has not made me feel pangs of longing for my own cute kid (which is good, as my ( Read more... )

I just saw The Dark Knight, which was awesome, awesome, awesome. I see a lot of movies in the theater. A whole lot. This is, I believe, a complete list of everything I've watched in the theater this year:

( 20 films in 7 months! )

• A new polyamory vocab word. I decided that if your partner has in-laws through someone other than you, then you have in-laws once removed.
  
  
• A belly full of dim sum. aroraborealis and I had yummy, yummy dim sum on Saturday. I almost made us too late, but we got there just in time for the last rounds of the carts. And then we followed it up with pearl milk ( Read more... )

I've been in a very movieish mood recently -- and mostly a very going-to-the-movies-by-myself mood. Here are the movies I've seen this year (no spoilers):

( Apocalypto )

I just put up a new spoiler-free book review for A Home at the End of the World, by Michael Cunningham. I'd give it about 4/5 stars -- read more at the link. (And if you're interested in contributing spoiler-free reviews to the wiki, please let me know!)

I also updated my more complete, but brief, list of books I've read lately.

( cut to save the world (from spoilers) )

Okay, I got a lot of support for the idea of putting up a spoiler-free book review site. So I've set one up at http://spoilerfreebookreviews.pbwiki.com. Now everyone who is interested should contribute! Comment here if you want the password -- leave your email address and ( Read more... )

The Harvard Film Archive was doing a special screening of Brokeback Mountain tonight, advertised primarily to the Harvard and MIT LGBT groups and film societies. James Shamus, one of the producers of the film and co-president of Focus Features, was also there for Q&A ( Read more... )

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory totally rocked. Very different from the first movie, and I love them both in very different ways. Depp makes interesting choices in playing Wonka; some people will like them, others won't (certainly you won't if you just want Gene Wilder, but you might not even so). But I quite liked his interpretation, and in ( Read more... )