(The hyperlinked image contains partial, albeit artful, nudity).

We have a framed postcard of this Adolph de Meyer photograph (the original is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is where I got the postcard), hanging in our bathroom ( Read more... )

So this has got to be a remake of the excellent 1998 French film The Dinner Game, right?

Not. Necessary.

Unless you're majorly subtitle-averse (and the only legitimate excuse for that, in my mind, is if you have difficulty reading, period), there is nothing-nothing-nothing about the original that is inaccessible ... or even particularly ( Read more... )

Because a number of people requested it, here is a link to my Amazon Marketplace storefront.

Before you peruse my inventory, I feel I must offer the following PSA: if any of you recognize an item listed as one that you lent us, and you don't want me to sell it, please speak up! With as many books and DVDs as we have, keeping track of their ( Read more... )

Oh. Am I still doing this?

( 30-day TV Survey: Days 16 - 21 )

We are liquidating a huge portion of our book and DVD "holdings" (as I said on Facebook, it's too haphazard to even be considered a collection) by way of Amazon Marketplace. Before you swoop in and suggest another venue, understand that I am willing to "pay" -- or, more accurately, lose out on profit -- for convenience. Everything is priced so that ( Read more... )

( 30-day TV Survey: Days 14 - 15 )

( These are the sort of kid stories that would provide a full day's bitching fodder for the stridently childfree. Consider yourself amply warned. )

( 30-day TV Survey: Days 11 - 13 )

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( 30-day TV Survey: Days 8 and 9 )