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Sometimes I wonder why I started this blog. Despite the success I recently enjoyed with NaBloPoMo, I still have difficulty coming up with things to post. Even the Music Monday posts, which I enjoy immensely, are a chore to work on half the time. Parenting? Supposedly the “focus” of this blog, right? There are only…
As The Boxtrolls opens we are obviously in the middle of the story. Events escalate quickly before the studio titles are over. It could be easy to miss these early developments which are integral to the entire story. An exterminator strikes up a deal with the authorities to eliminate the underground menace. After eliminating all…
You may wonder why I split up my look at Siouxsie And The Banshees into two parts. You may wonder why there are two parts at all considering the first part was a complete story. Thing is, I have gotten to like and appreciate the band more as time goes on. I’m not under the…
Included in this DVD are two hair clips featuring the supporting character’s visage. These pack-ins with the various Disney Junior DVDs are nice, but shouldn’t sway your decision to purchase. Actually, I’d rather see Disney stop putting extraneous stuff in with the DVDs and focus on putting more content on the DVDs. There. That’s out…
It’s been a couple of weeks, I know, but I haven’t taken that many pictures. We are all so busy, and then again, there’s nothing really to report. It’s all the hecticness of life with a gajillion kids. Earlier this month Ciaran had a Cub Scout meeting. There he worked on creating a scrapbook, one…
Does anybody else remember “Friday Night Videos”? This was a program that aired on NBC Friday nights after “The Tonight Show” a few years before “Late Night With David Letterman” took over that programming slot that night. Debuting in 1983, NBC was looking to capitalize on the popularity of music videos – and produce a cheap late…
Scarlett Johansson is the titular character in Lucy, a woman who is pretty much a mess at the beginning of the film. She is an American (supposedly graduate) student in Taipei, Taiwan who has a boyfriend that isn’t altogether living an exactly legal lifestyle. Things go very poorly for Lucy and she is forced into…
I had been to concerts before. Most of my live music had come from festivals such as the Bite Of Seattle or Bumbershoot, but I was taken to a Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem concert in my youth and I did get to see the Beach Boys perform after a Mariners game (but that is…
Two men walk into a bar. The third man ducks. What is the last thing to go through a fly’s mind as it hits the windshield? It’s ass. This last one is sort of paraphrased. I heard it from an Irish comedian, Dave Allen on his television series “Dave Allen At Large” – it was…
Peter Pan has been great for Disney. The latest DVD of “Jake And The Never-Land Pirates” further ties in the animated film with this animated series. The titular episode spans a whole half-hour episode rather than being split into two different segments as most episodes are. Here we get Captain Hook tired of being made…