DANNY BOYLE’S SUNSHINE is a big movie with a big ideas shot from a small point of view. Well, for the most part. There are times where the screen is filled with visions of a spaceship as a big as a city, but if you think of the view of the sun it […]
NOSTALGIA VENTURES RE-PRINTING OF DOC SAVAGE marks the return of one of my childhood heroes to my reading pile. Doc Savage, a seemingly superhuman man raised (or perhaps more accurately engineered) by a group of scientists to fight evil in all its forms, entered the American psyche in 1933, paving the way for […]
FOR THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND THE BLEAK HOUSE CROWD, it is good news that the latest BBC drama sensation, Cranford, which stars Judi Dench, will be shown on Masterpiece in May 2008. This is after the Complete Jane Austen. 2008 will be a good year for Patty, who loves the Jane Austen […]
I FIRST SAW Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on tv while we were in London last November. A crazy haired and bespectacled man ranting on about cooking fish. I opted not to buy his latest and rather weighty tome while on vacation, The River Cottage Fish Book, as I had enough things stuff into my suitcase […]
XCONOMY, a local Boston technology and business online newsource, hosted Battle of the Tech Bands tonight at the Middle East Downstairs in Central Square in Cambridge, MA. My company put up some cash for the event, so I got a free pass and went with some people from work. We got some free […]
AT SOME POINT LAST YEAR, I listened to a Baby Elephant’s song featuring David Byrne, “How Does the Brain Wave?. Through that song I discovered there was a documentary about Bernie Worrell, one of the members of Baby Elephant and former member of Parliament-Funkadelic and the Talking Heads. I put the movie on […]
I AM BACK OUT in Seattle, WA for a couple of days for work. Unusual for Seattle, we got some sunshine today instead of rain while we visited some of our old haunts. We stayed the night at the MarQueen Hotel in the Queen Anne area of Seattle. Hotel provides a very […]
PATTY AND I caught an afternoon showing of Juno at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square yesterday. A good number of people milled around in the lobbey waiting for the previous movie to let out, so I took that as a good sign that the movie was as good as they reviews we had […]
