I’m talking about the original 1933 version of King Kong . It is a great movie and a hell of lot more violent and gruesome than I ever thought. It must have shocked and scared the crap out of audiences in 1933. I never realized what an incredible movie it is. The stop-motion special effects ar...

I was never a huge fan of any of the Godfather movies until I watched the entire trilogy over the period of a week. ( The Godfather - Part III is the dud of the series, infamously diminished by the casting of Sofia Coppola as Michael Corleone’s daughter. She can’t act. That’s not t...

I’ve never met anyone with the name Esmé. The one and only time I’ve seen it is in J.D. Salinger’s short story, “For Esmé — with Love and Squalor.” It’s a masterpiece. It’s a quiet story about loneliness and compassion. The Wikipedia entry for the st...

* James Dobson is resigning as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Focus on the Family.  In his place will go Air Force Lt. Col. Patrick Caruana (Ret.), who was als once an executive with defense contractor Northrup Grumman.  Doesn’t anyone else find it a little bit weird that someone who ...

You start in a prison cell and have to escape. Make your way to the train and get ready for at least one stop along the way. Basic Details Title: Hard Escape File Name: hl2-ep2-sp-hard-escape.rar Size : 7.54Mb Author: wypa-pipin Date Released: 08 February 2009 Source: City17.ru PlanetPhillip Downloa...

Alphabet: A History (K) Kimbrough It's 1998 and I've just graduated from college. I'm moving out of the 2-bedroom duplex I've shared with my friend Becky for the last two years and moving into a 1-bedroom apartment on the bottom floor of a big, white, dilapidated house on Kimbrough. ...

Even though I know the days are getting longer, February always seems like the darkest depths of winter to me.  Fortunately, it's a short month, and jam packed with holidays, perhaps to offset the gloom that settles into the bones this time of year.  Here are some popular, as well as lesser known,...

The annual Edwardian Ball in San Francisco pays homage to author Edward Gorey. SF Weekly has photos from the ball held Saturday, with commentary in rhyming alphabet, Gorey-style! Link -Thanks, Janine Kahn!...

it has been cold and dreary and winter has frozen my ambition a bit.  and i was thinking of chicken soup. which led me to alphabet soup, a quilt that is now my couch project. i am mainly quilting so it is easy to stitch in the evening in front of the tv, in lower light than usual, to the rhythm of ...

"Ashamed of being Jewish?" Of the more than 600 emails I let pile up in my inbox over the holiday break, this is the one that really got my attention.  It was an email in response to my Winter post, which still seems to me to be an entirely innocuous post about my plans to go to western Colorado to...