SCOTUS and DOMA and VRA, Oh My!
This post is dedicated to my friend Mary, who first taught me the phrase “zero-sum game” and helped me to know that justice and liberation are not zero-sum games. There … Continue reading
Another Movie aaand …. It’s Oscar Season!
I actually saw Silver Linings Playbook before I saw The Impossible, but with the plague going around our house, I was forced into survival mode. No extraneous writing. Just snuggling … Continue reading
Disaster Porn
Disaster porn. That’s a thing, right? I don’t want to Google it because then I would know I didn’t make it up and it just seeped into my subconscious because … Continue reading
Zero Dark Thirty and Its Accompanying Mindf/cks
Photo from Sony Pictures Studios Let me start this review with a few declarations. I think you should know what you are getting yourself into. (1) I am not a … Continue reading
Histories
Yesterday, I went to see Les Miserables. How was it? Well, I am not made of stone, people. Those first few notes of One Day More come through the theater … Continue reading
Drunks on a Plane
Movie poster image from Paramount Pictures. I went to see Flight a few days ago with a dear friend. And thank god he was there, because, damn. Damn. The Synopsis … Continue reading
Happy Solstice, Y’all
Let us welcome the sun. Margaret Atwood lends us these words: Shapechangers in Winter I. Through the slit of our open window, the wind comes in and flows around us, … Continue reading
Sigh; Preliminary Thoughts on Sandy Hook
Photo Credit: (AP Photo/David Goldman) I have recently been researching and writing about violence and how violence causes more violence and how trauma affects brain development, especially in young people … Continue reading
Book Review: Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
This month, the book club is reading Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. Let me start by saying that Emily hates it. She doesn’t usually hate books, especially when the author is … Continue reading
So Sayeth Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, … Continue reading
Election Reflections
It’s been almost three weeks since Barack Obama was re-elected and all four of the gay marriage propositions on state ballots went for the good guys. A lot has already … Continue reading
Words To Live By
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. -Isak Denisen
Guilty Pleasures II
Hawaii Five-O, 2010 Version I am seriously embarrassed about this particular Guilty Pleasure. It’s confusing how much I like this show. I mean, first of all, it is a CBS … Continue reading
Open Letter to Peter Lenkov
I wrote this on the CBS feedback page, because while I love–LOVE!–H50, I am feeling, suddenly, like they are gay-baiting a little, hopefully unintentionally. So I wrote this: Dear Peter … Continue reading
Too Earnest 