A Late Starter Dawdling Through Life
What happened to Ragnar Lothbrok and James Gordon? Anyone watching “Vikings” or “Gotham” knows these two protagonists – it’s hard to call them heroes – have taken turns for the worse recently. What happened, and can they win our loyalties … Continued
Nearly forty years ago, I rode two separate buses to get from my house to a movie theater several towns away where the original Star Wars was playing. Since there were two theaters in downtown Rockville Centre, this was no … Continued
This is it, the last in my series of “best of Austin” blogs. In case you missed it, there was my epic study of Austin coffee shops, followed by my breakthrough exposé on breakfast tacos. Serious issues all. In this … Continued
Imagine for a moment that the film Boyhood did not take place over a twelve year period. Imagine instead that the film’s director, Richard Linklater, filmed the movie over three months, and that instead of using the same children and … Continued
I’m starting to shake. It hasn’t been long, but I feel jittery and nervous. My stomach’s a wreck. When my wife asks me a question, I snap at her. When my daughter wants to play, I brush her off. I … Continued