Once upon a time in the 80′s, me being the little geek that I was/am, I bought a Starlog magazine to read up on all the latest geek shit. (*gasp* Mark Hamill interview! Conan sequel! New Star Trek movie! Oh, glee!) In it, I came upon this picture, and I about dropped dead: I learned […]

Hope you’re enjoying my Yuletide decorations. There’s five different images, so hit ‘reload’ if you want to see them all. Now it’s time to really get the 2007 holidays off on the right start, because surely no festive season would be complete without a trip to the beautiful home of one of our foremost actresses! […]

The Friday after Thanksgiving was Boris Karloff’s birthday! Appropriately enough, Boris once even starred in a movie called Black Friday. I’ve given Karloff a lot of grief over the years, purely because I’m a Lugosi partisan, and because of how much Bela hated him in the movie Ed Wood. (Still can’t see Karloff appear on […]

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Another thing you should know about my Russian neighbor:  lead phobia is not his only quirk.  He also seems to have pointless attachment to an old, P.O.S., broken-down, rust-bucket GMC Jimmy that he’s kept parked on our street since moving here. When he first moved in about a year ago, the thing actually ran.  But […]

Very busy weekend, but in a good productive way. We got our turkey and trimmings, and got caught up on a HUGE backlog of stuff to do around the house.  Now all is (mostly) in readiness for Tgiving.  I’m all excited because Loup and LK are coming up for the holiday!  This is the first […]

Yikes. If THIS is truly the sexiest man that planet earth can offer, things are going even worse than I thought. Is People magazine a harbinger of doom? Or is Matt Damon the heretofore unknown 5th horseman of the apocalypse? That would make it Pestilence, Famine, Death, War, and…Banality?

Because if he did, it’s no wonder he didn’t want to leave Casablanca with Ingrid Bergman. Below are the recipes for my foray into Moroccan food from last weekend’s dinner party.

Every winter, my favorite seasonal drink at Starbucks is the Gingerbread latte.  Mmmmm, so spicy and full of nutmeg.  But I usually limit myself to about two per winter, because those suckers have as many calories as a small meal at KFC! But this year…there was an epiphany…a Xmess miracle at the Starbucks shop!  They […]

Of this morning? OMG, so shitty it boggles the mind: There I am at 6:05am, having just finished washing my face and brushing my teeth, when…the bloody POWER goes out!! And stays out! BW and I are stumbling around with flashlights trying to get dressed and leave. I don’t know if it will be restored […]

Seems we just can’t escape the 70′s cops this week. Y’all remember Bullitt, right? Classic cop movie from (I think) 1968…Steve McQueen in black turtlenecks and loafers tooling around San Fran in a green Mustang, catching the baddies and of course, keepin’ it real? The seminal chase sequence over the hills of San Francisco, Steve-o […]

Mine is, “Across 110th Street” by Bobby Womack.  It was featured pretty heavily in American Gangster, so it’s been lodged in my cranium since Sunday. You?

Saw American Gangster over the weekend. Simply put, it is one damn good movie. It is not, however, the Great Epic American Film that it is obviously striving so hard to be. But that’s ok…there’s nothing at all wrong with just being a damn good movie. So many good things to say about American Gangster, […]

Agenda items for Monday, Nov.5 Happy birthday, Cheri!  Hope you enjoyed your days off…see you this weekend. My birthday was good, thanks.  Among other things, I got:  my favorite wine (mmm!), DKNY perfume (yay!), Vosges chocolate (gasp!), Wellington boots (w00t!), and the special 2-disc edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (gary!) I know we’re only two […]