I think I'll start with the movie I saw last night (Up in the Air) and then progress slowly and carefully to the movie I saw last week (Avatar).
The first, a Goorge Clooney film about a jet-setting, "fire -for-hire" expert was just nominated for an Oscar.  Although I can't see it winning over Avatar, perhaps in a non-James Cameron year it would ( Read more... )

Well, I brought in the New Year in the best way possible: at the movie theatres, watching Sherlock Holmes, which was released last night in Israel.
And let me just say:
It was ALL KINDS OF AWESOME.
The previews had not done the movie justice.

In  Sherlock Holmes, Victorian London came alive in a way that I have never experienced before-- but not with ( Read more... )

So my lovely and generous husband suggested an outing to Tel Aviv to see a movie which I had never heard of: Jane Campion's "Bright Star." I use the adjective "generous" because I am quite aware that watching a Victorian* romance is for my spouse about as pleasant as watching a documentary about whales is for me. *shudders*

Still, in spite of his ( Read more... )

Really, I can't. It seems like every time I get even a little comfortable, a touch complacent, some new issue comes along and completely wrecks my confidence. I just got done trying to explain intussusception to two rather confused parents. Dammit, that's hard enough in English but trying to explain telescoping intestines in Hebrew turned out to be ( Read more... )

Last summer I watched the preview for the movie and declared that I had no wish to see the film. The two minute clip featured Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio alternately locked in passion or shrieking like lunatics and throwing furniture. It was like a flash forward for the doomed Titanic couple-- if they had actually made it to marriage and ( Read more... )

The TV show, not the clothing- although I may write a separate blog post about how much I love that too ( Read more... )

I'm in a dry writing spell currently so I am filling my empty time at work by reading.  Yesterday I finished Zusak's I am the Messenger.  I liked it well enough but I cannot rave about it like I did about The Book Thief.  The writing was not as polished in this early work; the characters did not have as much depth.  Two of the secondary characters ( Read more... )

I'm not working.
I haven't actually worked since we got back.  I sit in my very clean, very sterile office and surf the web. Watch youtube clips.  Giggle over past blog posts. 
I've seen exactly one patient today.  I know I'm not supposed to love this schedule but I really really do. Heck, I'm still being paid-- so, why not get paid for googling " ( Read more... )

I have finally finished the first revision. Anyone who has been following this rather lengthy process already knows that this is actually something like the fourth revision, but it is the first version without Sherlock Holmes.  Hyperion wanted S.H. taken out of the novel, partly for copyright reasons (long, long story- and not particularly ( Read more... )

Apparently she is a bit verbose.

Dear Talia,

I am so happy you live in Modiin now! My husband and I just came on fairy Aliyah on the Fairy B’ Faya flight last week. We came on the wings of an eagle. You humans have to use large metal machines, you poor things, but I suppose you can’t fit all your bags onto a bird. Why do people have so many things, ( Read more... )