Family Story Told by Cats Across the Decades

So here is a story. My aunt and uncle on my dad’s side had two Siamese cats — Tasha and Andy. And when I was a baby my mom (my dad was in Washington D.C. testifying to a congressional committee about organized crime in Los Angeles more on that another time) was staying with Judy and Ernie. Now, they were young and staying home with a baby so my aunt and uncle and my mom would put Tasha in my crib and tell her to “watch the baby” while they went off dancing for a couple...

A Glorious Purpose — Musings on Loki

There has been an outcry from fans over the ending of Loki season 2, because he didn’t get to live happily ever after with Sylvie, but I think it was perfection. And now I’m going to tell you why. AHOY, THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! I fell in love with the character way back with the first THOR film. Partly because he’s a tremendously complicated character and also because of Tom Hiddleston’s portrayal. He is probably one of the finest actors of his generation (and many...

When Less is Absolutely More (Or Don’t Cock Up Aliens)

via GIPHY I had a friend visiting who had never seen ALIENS, so we popped in the disc to watch it last night. What I hadn’t realized is that Carl and I had purchased the Special Edition. Which meant it had added back in deleted scenes and dialogue that had been cut from the theatrical release. And oh my dear gods and little fishes, they should never have done that. There was a reason those scenes were cut and some dialogue trimmed. I’m going to do a SPOILER WARNING! SPOILER WARNING!...

Duh and Also Some Thoughts on Riding the Posting Trot

Let’s first get the fact that I am sometimes an idiot out of the way before I get into musing about how little I knew about riding until I started riding with my coach extraordinaire, Leslie Apfel. I have these great Romitelli riding boots, that I just love, but when I wore the brown leather ones — the zippers would always slide down while I was riding. I thought it was due to the leather softening up, but then Leslie said, “Don’t they have a zipper guard?” she looked, and yes, they have...

Cars, Cars, Cars

Yeah, I’m a car person. I’m a big time car person. It’s the once place where my liberal cred really falls down. If I won the lottery I would have like eight or ten cars. So, in that spirit I went out to the car show in the parking lot across from the Round House this morning to check out the all electric Lucid. I’ve been reading about them in Car & Driver, vehicle won car of the year, and it’s slick. It’s also narrower than the Tesla S which would be...

No, The First Episodes of Andor Aren’t Boring (and I’m going to tell you why)

One of the constant complaints I hear regarding Andor is how the first few episodes are boring, nothing happens, what was the point of all this? In this era when there isn’t a Michael Bay EXPLOSION INSIDE AN EXPLOSION!!! people think a particular show or movie is slow, but I found the pacing of Andor to be nearly perfect. We all know the over-arching plot — Cassian Andor becomes a rebel intelligence officer, steals the Death Star plans, and dies, but what Tony Gilroy did was far deeper and...