I’ve lived through 46 Memorial Days, but this may be the first year that it seemed like a day we really needed. I had never quite been able to figure out why we had Veterans’ Day and Memorial Day. Maybe it is a little of us covering the same territory, but who cares? We don’t […]

Do you know how much technology had to come together so that someone could script a three-minute domino spill involving swords, elves and watermelons in the virtual world of Oblivion? Impressive. But, y’know, if you’re from this generation, don’t bother telling me how busy you are. Whoever made this movie could’ve valet-parked my car and […]

Orthodixie gets into some pretty interesting stuff here. Our culture has more than enough going on in it at any minute to exhaust the patience and good will of any of us so that, like Rip Van Winkle’s wife, we’re in danger of dying from bursting a blood vessel screaming at a New England peddlar. […]

Apparently, that rumbling of the earth I felt just a while ago was the terrestrial shockwave of us crowning our fifth “American Idol.”
Oh brother.
Not that I haven’t got my share of guilty pleasure TV viewing habits as well. Heck, maybe any TV viewing habit is a guilty pleasure. But there’s something wrong with the […]

When I took Clementine out for her Morning Sniffabout, the sound of tiny scrabbling feet in the maple tree told me that we had a domestic dispute in progress.
I hadn’t seen Romeo and Juliet — the pair of red fox squirrels that live in the tree — for some time, and I was almost […]

For those in need of a pepper-upper, here are “DaVinci Code” reviews on the site “Rotten Tomatoes”. The reviews are a mix of professional and “just folks” and they average out at giving the movie a 23% rating. I’d love if they’d say things like “Too dismissive of 2000 years of Christian teaching and tradition” […]

Shows what I know. When I wrote the last entry, I called upon all my vast experience as a longtime viewer of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom to say that the cardinals who were fussing at me would’ve built their nest up in a tree. But when I plunged into the backyard jungle again today […]

Spring has been cool this year. Not ‘cool’ as in ‘neato’ … just colder than we want. But the sunlight was dappling through this afternoon, and so I decided to go outside when I let Clementine into the back yard for her 2:00 Check Stuff Out duty.
Clementine has been getting more barky as she sheds […]

I finally rented the DVD of the recent “King Kong,” and I’ll say what a reviewer said about “Mission Impossible III” — it’s not as terrible as you think.
As I remarked back here, I felt somewhat vindicated when this latest “Kong” didn’t do as well at the box office as projected. I won’t go over […]

It’s been all serious and stuff around here these days, so I’d advise everyone to go watch this short little video entitled “Mother’s Day Picture”. I’ve watched it five times now and every time I watch it, I laugh till I cry.