animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

primer

I don’t think I mentioned this before, but our two year old living room television conked out the day before the Super Bowl. Great timing. After $100 in repairs, we got it back this week. So much for my high opinion of Sony… Luckily we have backup televisions throughout the …

sin city

We watched this movie last night–while drinking Margaritas, of course. We got a late start on it because I was IM’ing TurboTax support in an effort to find out why one of my totals isn’t being transferred to my 1040 correctly. No luck there. I’m going to try deleting and …

the human stain

We watched this movie last night. It was pretty good. Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins starred in it, so it was bound to be decent. We’ve watched so many movies in the past few months, that it is sometimes hard to think of something to write about them (this, being …

goodfellas

I don’t know how I managed to get through the last 16 years without seeing this movie, but I finally rectified that last night. Brian had already seen this one a number of times, so he made sure I didn’t miss any of the good parts (you know, when I …

dogville

This is a movie about how people suck. And, it brings the audience down with it. The entire film took place on this stage (not unlike a play). The stage was devoid of most props. Houses were delineated with squares painted on the stage. At first this was kind of …