It’s Less Than a Month to SXSW! Eeek!
I don’t know about you, but it’s less than a month until “the monster that ate March” otherwise known as South by Southwest. That’s when the whole world comes to Austin and everything happens....
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Helen Mirren: The Cross Super Bowl Mummy With Drunk Drivers
Among the do-good commercials in Super Bowl 50 this past weekend, I was most put out at the one featuring British actress Helen Mirren telling people not to drink and drive. I wasn’t peeved...
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
True confession time: I read a lot of Jane Austen in graduate school. This means having not only read Austen’s first-written, last-published horror-ish novel Northanger Abbey, but also The Mysteries of Udolpho,...
Still Missing David Bowie
Earlier this evening a friend came over to the house, and asked in passing if I was still missing David Bowie. Of course I said yes. We live in a world where the endless...
On Florence King and “Carol”
The recent passing of conservative writer and humorist Florence King has gotten a lot of press, and I can only find it fittingly ironic that King has passed while the move “Carol” is still...
Keanu Reeves in Russian
Was surprised to find that the Keanu Reeves Russian Wikipedia page features one of my pictures (from Fantastic Fest.) It’s a different picture than the one that the English -language Wikipedia uses of him.
Another Picture in Wikipedia
Nice to see Wikipedia using another one of my pictures. This one is of the “Soska Sisters” from Fantastic Fest!
Star Wars: Why The Huge Opening Matters
During the hoopla of the opening weekend for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” it’s been hard not to feel left out. I grew up in the 70s in the small town of Deer Park,...
