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I just read that this was the most perfect series ever, lasting just 3 seasons for very good reasons. I’m not sure I would agree. The book was published in 2011 and the series aired 2014 – 2017. When I … Continue reading →

By me. A long time friend — a short black woman who always described herself, jokingly, as a “poor black child from Harlem,” asked me in… roughly… 1999, maybe 2000, to be her executor of her will — actually what … Continue reading →

With apologies to the joke told through the ages in various forms. The joke, which is really just a reaction to an ancient belief that the world rested on the back of seven elephants, goes something like this: An astronomer … Continue reading →

I think when I am finally able to start writing again, I am going to keep this little saying or aphorism by T.S. Eliot in my wallet, laminated, and look at it every so often to remind myself that I … Continue reading →

I recently had a chance to see the 4K restoration of this movie, and to see Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes “introduce” the movie. They were fine but mostly just said how much they enjoyed working together and how it … Continue reading →

This will probably be a long rambling entry, which only means that you can be sure it wasn’t written by an AI bot. (On Facebook, I get these entries about dead movie stars, or sometimes closeted dead movie stars that … Continue reading →

But as people get more and more frustrated they start to devolve into the usual homophobic, female-phobic tropes, and they start using the same insults as conservatives. So we get JD Vance prettied up as a fat woman drag queen. … Continue reading →

I think that I’ve always harbored a fear of the Christian need to proselytize from having grown up in a “Born Again” fundamentalist family (only 1 of whom, by the way, believed it — the patriarch of course.) But living … Continue reading →

I saw this was re-issued for its 40th Anniversary, having spawned a now-considered Camp classic movie, a musical, a sequel or two, a Joan Crawford fan club which doubles as a Christina bashing free for all, the destruction of one … Continue reading →

The poster for Eddington vaguely resembles the famous Apocalypse Now poster, (which I used to own, until I sold all my movie posters to Posteratiti.) In this apocalypse, the apocalyptic event is, basically, Covid and our horrific response to it. … Continue reading →