I got an email last week informing me that DVD's of "Lord, Save Us From Your Followers" -- the very funny and very moving documentary I reviewed last September, but which had a far too limited theatrical release for most folks to even get a chance to see it -- are now available for sale:
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Just a quick note to say that I saw Where the Wild Things Are with a friend last night, and I can see why the critics are raving about it . . . though it was even more difficult to watch than I'd expected, simply because even the scenes on the island with the giant Jim Henson creatures were so REALISTIC (in terms of recognizable emotions and ( Read more... )

Just a quick note about the movie I saw last Sunday afternoon, The Boys Are Back:

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Just in case anyone missed it first time around, here's a revised version of my very positive review of the documentary "Lord, Save Us From Your Followers", now playing in limited release:( Read more... )

A friend just forwarded me this "Very Short List" review of a new non-fiction book on the destruction of New York City in popular culture and all that this might imply about our fears and suppressed wishes.

Here's the first paragraph, just to whet your appetite:

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I'd been looking through my bookshelves (now that I have most of my paperback sci-fi, at least, ON bookshelves again, following my move), trying to find a poem I remember reading years ago in the dedication of a collection of short stories, and only today did it finally occur to me to Google the words that I remembered from this poem ( Read more... )

I'm sure I'm not the first to mention this on LJ, but I just caught the last half of this report on NPR's Morning Edition this morning, and it did my heart immense good:

Vampire Slayer Buffy Saves Iraq Reporter's Soul
by Jamie Tarabay

'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' saved the world and the sanity of NPR's Jamie Tarabay while she was in Baghdad. ( Read more... )

I don't think this is really spoilerish for last Friday's premiere, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

( random thoughts about Cylons and their parental issues )

I caught a bit of "Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee" on the Food Network while I was getting ready to leave for work this morning (right now, I'm sitting in my empty classroom, in case anybody forgot they're supposed to use this time to work on their take-home test, if they haven't already finished it), and it reminded me of a conversation in the ( Read more... )

I'm still working on my dissertation, but I've ended up concentrating on chapter four, the one dealing with theology, first, because I think if I can get that chapter to work, it'll give me enough of a confidence boost to complete the rest. ( brief moaning about excruciatingly slow progress )