So I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend. Mild spoilers if you haven’t seen it, mostly obscured though.
I was sad that Bellatrix hit Sirius with the killing curse before he went through the veil. That is NOT how it happened in the book—it was a less severe curse. I […]

Laptops are great things—connect with the world and your job without leaving your bed.
I’m totally off codeine after last evening’s unpleasantness. But Motrin is working fine. The only pain I feel in my mouth is a sore spot on my tongue from a sharp corner of the mouth guard. By the end of today I […]

Some recent sighing over George Clooney at Will Smama’s reminded me that, while my love for The Clooney is still abiding and fierce, I have neglected to report a dream from two nights ago in which Ewan McGregor and I got married. There was no angst over this, no inconvenient spouses or children, just me […]

from the lovely Songbird:
1) It’s a Wonderful Life–Is it? Do you remember seeing it for the first time?
I love this movie. I try to watch it every year, although some years I watch the abridged version (from Uncle Billy losing the money until the end).
When I went to college, we had to fill out this […]

This is one of mine:
Inspired by the various summer films currently in the theaters or soon to be released.
Here’s your large popcorn and blue raspberry Icee–would you like Raisinets or Goobers with that? Silence those cell phones please, the show’s about to start:
1. If you were a mutant, what ability would you like to have? […]

“Are you STILL HERE?!?!”
Yes, I am. Yesterday at church, three people asked me that—before the 8:30 service had even started. I told the last person that everyone who asked me that would have to pay me a dollar. You know that good-natured tone that also means business? I think I nailed it. Nobody else asked […]

There’s a place out on the internets where people play a game with movie titles–change (or eliminate) one letter of a title to come up with a totally different film.
For example:
Mystic Liver — friendship, revenge and organ meats gone horribly wrong
or
American Lie: The George W. Bush story. (Don’t send me letters; I didn’t make it […]

(Does anyone else think of that old Monty Python bit, Erizabeth: Episode Thlee, the Almada? That’s literally all I remember.)
[spoiler free]
Went to see it today. I’ll not add much to the volumes of stuff written on this movie already…
Comic Book Guy: Last night’s Itchy & Scratchy was, without a doubt, the worst episode ever. […]

Now that I have a few more blog pals/blogs I read, I thought I’d revive this little game:
Who would play you in the movie?
(Links to these blogs are above)
Peripatetic Polar Bear would be played by Laura Linney. Smart yet unassuming.
Danny from Field of Dandelions would be played by Timothy Busfield (although perhaps that’s partly because […]

Matthew has an intermittent series of treatises on the virtues of the Big Three trilogy movies… Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and the Matrix. (I know I know, one of these things is not like the other…)
I want to add a category to the debate:
Best Use of Hair in a Trilogy.
The Matrix movies use […]