There's a lot of filmed crap out there that should have never happened to any book, not even a mediocre one.  There's also a bit of not too bad film that was actually an improvement on the book (Jaws comes immediately to mind), but that happens so seldom I rarely bother thinking about it.  When a book and movie complement each other seamlessly, it' ( Read more... )

My Parents Were Awesome

Where people submit photos of their parents before they came along to de-cool the "rents", as the kids say.  Steve submitted the photo of our Dad that I posted here in December and, with any luck, it'll be posted on MPWA in a week or so.

Strictly speaking, that photo wasn't taken before we came around to ruin our folks' ( Read more... )

I think this letter to Kingsolver from one of her readers is a good summing up of my own feelings:

Dear Ms. Kingsolver, Your novels have to be the most implausible, coincident ridden, knee jerking exhibits of liberalism and corny sentimentalism that I have ever read.  P.S. I like them pretty well.

I have to point out that I haven't read any of her ( Read more... )