A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 46: snuffles Making mommy’s favorite cake for mother’s day Day 47: look how big the girls are getting! Impromptu food web charting Fashion shows persist Day 48: Larnin’ Apparently, this is a robot Found...
A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 39: a whole bunch of IKEA stuff shows up and Liam helps Daddy build a bigger desk The cocoonening has begun! Putting together a pinball Kiwico machine Day 40: I finally get around to...
A visual chronicle of what we’ve been doing to keep occupied during COVID-19 social distancing. Day 31: drawing… Providence? Weekly greetings to the garbage collectors Mrs Meggy showing off her new threads to the class Sometimes Daddy has to help out with school Welcome to the family, future butterflies! Day...
Oh Meryl Streep, you know you can’t hide your true intentions from me. You’re so transparent! House on a cliff overlooking the sea, various scenes of you crying (is it just me, or does her cry sound like a laugh?), taking care of three kids while various bachelors chase you...
OK, even putting aside my man-crush on Christian Bale, this movie rocked my socks off, blew me away, melted my face down, and then sucker punched me in the sternum… twice. Of course, such achievements cannot be made without sacrifice: the movie felt too long, which is no good. Even...
“I dunno what all the fuss was about. I saw that movie six times; it RULED!” I went into the new Indiana Jones movie with mixed feelings. On the one hand, old Harry is, well, old. On the other, so was Sylvester (not the cat, who is also old), and...
I’m just gonna throw this out there: Prince Caspian is a really good epic fantasy movie. Everything that makes a fantasy movie good was included; good vs. evil, magic, talking animals, battles, a protagonist struggling to channel Antonio Banderas, internal moral struggle, and shorter-than-average humanoids (as you can tell, I’m...
The lights turn off. The stage is dark. The spotlight shines on Ozzy and Tony. The crowd goes nuts. OK… so that’s not how the movie started out. But you can imagine what it would be like if it did, eh? It’s alright, though; even that opening couldn’t have made...
It’s good to see a movie that is geared for a Western audience be unembarrassed about being Eastern. Forbidden Kingdom was, as I said to Chris, a savory combination of The Neverending Story and Ramayana (with, of course, kung fu thrown in there somewhere). Jackie Chan continues to stretch himself,...