The days leading up to a vacation are always glutted with errands and to-dos, and right now I’m just shy of being overwhelmed. (Vacation from what? You ask. Good question. How about: looking for work? Scout? My apartment?) I’m heading out tomorrow for my annual trip home. Plans already include a Twins game (against the [...]
Entries from May 26th, 2010
Thoughts on Lost – The End
May 24th, 2010 · 10 Comments · lost, reviews, television
I had this dream last night — Jack and Sun somehow got together after they were tasked with setting everything on the island back to rights. I’m not kidding. There was a Jack-Sun hook-up. This is not the first LOST-related dream I’ve had in the last five months, either. Here’s another story: In my junior [...]
Thoughts on Lost – What They Died For
May 19th, 2010 · 11 Comments · lost, reviews, television
I wonder if anyone else writing about this show found it hard to formulate thoughts about this penultimate episode, since it built up such a nice momentum going into the finale that I’m almost content to wait and see how it all plays out on Sunday. (I can’t believe this is going to be over [...]
Tags:ben·jack·jacob·locke·lost·season 6·smoke monster·the source·widmore
Very Concise Thoughts on Doctor Who – “Flesh and Stone”
May 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · reviews, television
Alternate title: A Brief Sketch of My Thoughts on the Latest Episode of Doctor Who, in Roughly Chronological Order: 1. Nice. 2. Awesome. 3. OMG SCARY. 4. Awesome. 5. And also scary. 6. Seriously. Creepy. 7. Ha! 8. Aw. Sniff. 9. Ha! 10. Ha ha! 11. Nice. 12. Ugh. 13. UGH. 14. REALLY? 15. Seriously, [...]
Tags:alex kingston·doctor who·karen gillan·matt smith·river song·stephen moffat·weeping angels
Tomato Canapes ala Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts
May 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · books, food, seriously?
In honor of Friday, in honor of it being the 15th of May [update: except it's the 14th. Don't mind me. I have absolutely no concept of time anymore], and in honor of this vintage ad Dan posted to my Facebook Wall yesterday: (Tomato jam? Delicious. Tomato Jell-o? Bluh. Discuss.) May I present to you [...]
Tags:esquire·handbook for hosts·recipes·things I will never serve ever·tomato canapes
Quickie Review(ish) – An Education
May 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · movies, reviews
(Also known as the latest in an ongoing series which should be titled You Know That Movie Everyone Else Saw Six Months Ago? Yeah, I Just Watched It.) Actually, let’s get the review part out of the way: For a movie with a familiar, arguably tired narrative, wow is it good. Somehow, no matter how [...]
Tags:an education·british jews·carey mulligan·emma thompson·olivia williams·peter sarsgaard
Thoughts on Lost – Across the Sea
May 12th, 2010 · 9 Comments · lost, reviews, television, writing
Here’s the thing about origin stories: they’re never going to fully satisfy one’s need to know everything. Origins — true beginnings — simply don’t exist. There’s always something that came before, always the question “How?” looping back, over and over, until finally you get to a shrug and the unknowable. The Mother says as much [...]
Tags:adam and eve·cuse·DHARMA·jacob·lindelof·lost·man in black·season 6·smoke monster·smokey
My Grandmother’s Hats
May 11th, 2010 · 5 Comments · flashbacks, photo essays, writing
My grandmother was a classy dame. So classy, in fact, that she’d probably disapprove of my calling her a dame. She was a lady. (When she died, and family gathered together to talk to the rabbi about her life, I remember my mom and aunt saying something like, “She never wore pants. Because ladies didn’t [...]
Tags:1940s·1950s·1960s·fashion·grandmother·hats·history·mad men era·Minnesota·st. paul·vintage
This time I mean it, there is REALLY nothing to see here.
May 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · writing
We open on a medium shot of our heroine sitting on the couch in the same spot in the middle she’s been sitting in for hours at a time for nearly a year now, with her laptop on her lap (hence the name), a pile of mysteries to her left and a snoozing cat to [...]
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Move along, nothing to see (not much)
May 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · photo essays
I went out yesterday for a walk, as I am trying to do daily just to get the hell out of the apartment, and brought my camera along thinking that if nothing else I could post pictures of my journey and have something pretty to look at on this post-Cinco de Mayo, post-Lost analysis, Doldrum [...]
Tags:bird town·fort greene·hipstamatic·iphone·myrtle avenue·prison ship martyrs monument