My apologies. One of the things I like best about these collections of leftover mini-articles and links is finding or creating amusing illustrations. None of that today. … [read more]
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Dawn
A few days ago, re-posting yellowed text from my 1990s zine Pathetic Life, there was an entry where I mentioned an old friend named Dawn, only to compare her to a cat that had adopted me. … [read more]
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Brick and Diary of a Mad Housewife, and five more movies
For your motion picture enjoyment today: a movie in a madhouse, a time traveling bartender, a teenage hooker on the run, a documentary about a beloved character from children’s books, the misery of being a married woman, a gritty adolescent crime drama, and a solution to the eternal question of who shot JFK. … [read more]
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Perpetually unimpressed
The sign and pole had been been crunched, uprooted, and left on a slight, grassy hill leading up to an apartment complex, beside a busy road. … [read more]
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Office Space, and six more movies
This is it. Night of nights. Show of shows, and height of heights. Today’s movies: small town life after the tornado, building a railroad across Africa in 3D, prisoners in outer space, a workplace comedy that works, a thriller that doesn’t, the end of all life on earth except for TV actors, and a flaming sack of poop from the American right. … [read more]
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Just someone with troubles
I’d picked up a book at the library, and was headed to Mrs Rigby’s for lunch. At the southbound bus stop, an older white lady was waiting, wearing a cloth coat, and beside her, a granny cart, the tall kind that old folks use for bringing groceries home. … [read more]
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Happiness and Passengers,
and five more movies Now playing: A baboon out for blood, a movie designed to offend you, a smart sci-fi on a sleeper ship, a stupid action movie with hairy stars, an unwatchable zombie pic and its sequel, and the much better sequel to a lousy movie. … [read more]
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Following my cucumbers
CRANKY OLD FART
#221Monday,
Oct. 31, 2022A woman on the bus was listening to her electronic device, without earbuds or headphones, so everyone had to listen. … [read more]
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“Do you know these people?”
Most of my magazine subscriptions have lapsed (and nowadays I have to clarify, I’m talking about periodicals published on paper), but I do like reading something — on paper — when I’m eating alone at the diner. … [read more]
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The Howl of Winterland, and six more movies
What shall we watch today? A quintessential American action flick, a documentary about a strike in the 1970s, a Hungarian comedy-drama that perfectly captures childhood, another bloody terror from Dario Argento, a sketch comedy show that forgets to be funny, white high school boys in trouble, and a brilliant short film about COVID, Santa, and relationships. … [read more]