By no coincidence, it’s much more fun to write about crappy movies than good ones.
Also, for the record, I’m not an atheist — I just wish the people who make a living preaching that God exists could do a little better job of explaining why.
And finally, a comparison that needed to be made. [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
It’s been a big year for women. From the 18 million ceiling cracks to the conflagration of hockey moms on the national stage, you can’t help but hear the crunch of female empowerment. Which sounds like the perfect entrée for The Duchess (opens Fri. Sept. 19), a film about one of 18th Century Britain’s most [...]
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
It’s hard not to pick up on all the little mantras as you go through life–those pedagogic sayings and catchy idioms meant to jog us out of our daily bitchings. They spring forth from Hallmark cards, insurance ads and suburban church message boards, until they’re lodged in the “wish I could unlearn this” portion of [...]
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
One of the nice things about getting older is the number of gods in the universe starts to shrink. I used to have boatloads of gods. They mostly consisted of My Elders — not so much the distant ones, like Reagan and Chuck Robb and Larry Hagman — they were too abstract to rule the [...]