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Happy Birthday, blondie. I love you! I took the girls out for a pre-birthday brunch on Sunday at a place called, unfortunately, Bunny’s Buckets & Bubbles, a southern comfort food place now installed in the dear departed Wharf Rat in...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
At some point in the last few years I probably started spending more time writing to AI than to people.I don’t actually measure this, but simply observing where I do my typing, easily more than half my typed messages are going to Claude,...
So, I finally got to see that famous vault scene where Tom Cruise hovers over the ground. And that scene was indeed very cool. But overall, I found this to be a little boring. Maybe because I found the premise to be quite low-stakes,...
With the whole “BrooklynVegan presents” part of their upcoming tour seemingly unaffected by the whole “BrooklynVegan gutted” news cycle last week, Swervedriver are set to perform “Raise at 35″ starting in a week and a half and are...
On Quentin Tarantino, GMing And The Art of Anti-Mystery0. This will all have to do with games, trust me.1. Pulp Fiction was in a small class of films that changed movies forever. Directors like it, arty people like it and audiences liked...
Me to myself in an old timey New York femme fatale accent: "Doctah, I got a fevah*, and the only thing that can stop it is a kebab sandwich with samouraï sauce." *à hangover #kebab #hungry #food #filmNoir #hangover
Chris wrote about resetting his music library and sticking with the music that he's into now, not just stuff he's nostalgic for. Since I got a proper stereo 2 years ago I've continued to bring new bands into my life and the best way I've...
Humans have two main relations to animals: they are either food or pets. We ban dogs, cats, and horses from use as food in the U.S. We require humane slaughter for most livestock, but not poultry, and require minimizing pain and distress...
Writtle is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of Chelmsford in Essex with a population of around 5,300 people. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Writelam and subsequently as Writela. It was a Royal demesne and the site of...
I think I have this weird sense of self belief [see: I Can Do This] in part because I’m a middle child. A forgotten child. I’m sure not all middle children feel the same, or even grow up the same. But with four brothers and a much older...
[This post started out as a tribute to Hall of Famer Don Nelson, who passed away last weekend at age 86. I have a fantastic Nelson profile stashed somewhere on my magazine shelf. But, as sometimes happens, I couldn’t locate it. In any...
In and of itself, the Song of Solomon is not particularly weird. It's a wholesome erotic poem, mostly told as a dialogue between two young lovers. Sure, some of it sounds odd to modern ears. The man sees some analogy between fawns and...
"Dive! Dive!" Film producer/director Irwin Allen let audiences dive deep into the waters of adventure with Voyage of the Bottom of the Sea, his second of three feature films that he made at 20th Century Fox studios in the early 1960s....
The parched grasslands of southern England are largely bereft of wildflowers in flower. For the most part they flowered early and faded early. So it is in the damper locales we get some greenery and a splash of vivd colour. Case in point...