When I saw the trailer for Easy A, I was intrigued. I thought it looked like a smart comedy – and it was. Rotten Tomatoes agrees: it’s at 86% today. It’s about a girl who, partly due to peer pressure and partly due to her soft spot for the downtrodden, acquires a reputation as a…
Category: PopCulturalism
Shake Your Tailfeather
Everybody needs dancing. It’s in our biology, right along with the need for singing and banging a drum – across cultures and continents. It connects us to our communities and our partners and our own selves. Do you dance? (Say yes.) Where do you dance? What makes you do it? What rhythm or song inspires…
Dilovely’s Harry Potter Geek-Out, including “Harry, A History”
SPOILER ALERT: I may discuss Potter plot. If you have been meaning to read Harry Potter – any of it – and still haven’t gotten around to it… what’s wrong with you? Go read it. Just close this window and go. Shoo! For the rest of you… here we go. It’s a doozy. Ahem. We…
BANG Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
That’s TWICE I’ve gone gallivanting to the movies in as many weeks!! What is the world coming to? My hubby and I were going to see Inception, but circumstances prevented it. If we were to go to the movies again sometime soon (can you imagine??), that would be why. Meanwhile, Sean was pretty stoked to…
BANG Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks
Rotten Tomatoes is not so hot on the new film Dinner for Schmucks. Skye and I went to see it anyway. Here are thirteen thoughts about it. Adaptation of 1998 French film “Le dîner des cons”, ergo pretty zany. I do not recall anyone in the film actually using the word schmuck. There were lines…
BANG Movie Review – Toy Story 3D
A friend of mine recently told me I would need some more movie reviews for folks like her on my blog, since she is a hardened movie addict. I meant to write a review of Toy Story 3 a few weeks ago, when I actually saw it, but then I ran out of time before…
Just for shiggles…
Here’s a little something I love. Folks… it’s the Drive-In Intermission! I can’t explain why I love it, since it’s quite awful… but I do. From the creepy happy “Yum yum” faces, to the attempts to make fast food sound nourishing, to the censorious “love bug” comment (you’d think this warning is really too late…
Why I Love Emily Giffin
Emily Giffin is the author of The Heart of the Matter, Love the One You’re With, Baby Proof, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue. Her novels aren’t considered great literature – it’s what you would call “chick lit”, but I own all five of them and find them not only readable, but re-readable. Why I love…
My Laminated List, Part II
This is all tougher than I thought. Once I finished Part I, I thought of some additions I should make – ones I can’t believe I forgot about. Also, there was a question in the comments I had to answer… so I had to go back and amend. Then I started Part II, and realized…
My Laminated List, Part I
Today, while eating dinner, we were watching Knocked Up, starring Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl. We were commenting – Sean, Auntie Em, and I – on Katherine’s gorgeousness, and Sean mentioned, “Yeah, she might be on my list.” So I think it’s time to get this one out in the open. The “laminated list” from…