Finally saw Cool Hand Luke and now understand this weird obsession with eating 50 eggs, devilled or otherwise. Okay, perhaps "understand" is too strong a term. But I've never been much of one for eating contests ( Read more... )

We (finally) watched "A Beautiful Mind" a couple weeks ago. Good flick! I can see why it got all those awards and stuff.

Now Colin tells me that one day way back when, his dad was sitting in the library at Princeton and John Nash walked up and shot him in the face with a water pistol. I am amused.

Colinmac made the unwise move of letting me go to Saturday's Green Spring plant sale with no adult supervision. I made three trips to the car to drop off purchases and still wish I had bought way more of what the master gardeners had on offer. But I did accomplish my main mission of getting some nice looking euphorbia to begin the Great Euphorbia ( Read more... )

If you've seen her looking fabulous in red carpet pictures, you might not think of Helen Mirren as the obvious choice to play a 1997 QEII. The Queen, in her exceedingly upper class British way, is all about frumpy where Helen Mirren is all about gorgeous. And if you've got Jeff from Coupling's voice in the back of your head saying that Helen Mirren ( Read more... )

Introducing an end-of-life planning leitmotif to my otherwise vacation-obsessed schedule, I read The American Way of Death: Revisited and watched Undertaking Betty (aka "Plots with a View", apparently). In short, watch the movie, skip the book. Not that they're related. They aren't ( Read more... )

Started watching "The Great Escape" last night, since it's one of those classic-type movies I really should have seen. Started watching around 10:15 thinking that since this was made way back when, it would probably adhere to the standard 90-minute movie length ( Read more... )

Okay, so Inara didn't have a huge role in Serenity. Nor did she have the largest part in the Firefly pilot. But if a person has seen both of these, I expect said person to know what her job is ( Read more... )

Extremely romantikal evening with colinmac highlighted by the Wallace and Grommit movie. Super! Full of terrible puns, English flavour and fantastic claymation. Also, omg bunnies so cute ( Read more... )

Perusing the DVD collection yesterday I finally realized what bothers me about Christian Bale. The problem is that I first saw him in Swing Kids (a mediocre movie that I loved), where he turned into a Nazi. So all these movies where he plays a hero-type just don't work. Something in the back of my head keeps yelling "Stop acting so good; you're ( Read more... )

Through massive fault of my own, almost saw Serenity twice this weekend ( Read more... )