Once again, I started watching a movie, expecting a documentary (this time about the evils of the tobacco industry). Instead, I was given a delightful thinking comedy movie about the tobacco industry, lobbyists, spin doctors, and the sales industry.
Nick Naylor is the spokesman for the tobacco industry. He lobbies in Congress, appears [...]
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I finally got the chance to watch this, and I was very impressed. This has to be the cutest robot movie I’ve ever seen, and it is one of the best movies for kids that I’ve seen in a long time. Rated G - now how often do you see that anymore? Truly funny, not [...]
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I started watching this movie, expecting a documentary from BBC or the Discovery Channel about sleep and dreams. It was definitely not that, but something much better. A Michel Gondry film. The director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, many of Bjork’s music videos, and several other amazing works, Gondry is known for thought-provoking [...]
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It’s getting warmer, and quick salads with bread or crackers are great for lunch!
When I was a kid, tuna salad meant tuna, mayonnaise, and pickles. Blah. It tasted good, but Blah.
This recipe is based off of one in the Joy of Cooking, which I have modified for my own tastes. It elevates tuna salad to [...]
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This is one of those perfect stories that I just couldn’t quit reading and was very sad to finally put down. Des Kennedy is a resident of Denman Island in the Georgia Strait of British Columbia, Canada, which I have had the recent pleasure of enjoying. It’s a beautiful little place full of eccentric people, [...]
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I’ve seen that there is a “The New Laurel’s Kitchen” now, but I’m not familiar with it. This is for the original. Having spent time with a vegetarian family (we were provided food, but no meat, and I had to cook), I got a lot of recipes, ideas, and advice from this book. It’s more [...]
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I’ve just finished reading The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan. As with The Joy Luck Club, I was very impressed and found myself lost in the realism and emotion of the story.
As with many of her books, Tan brings in the elements of the mother-daughter relationship, and old China versus new life in the [...]
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I loved this little book (just 152 pages, I read it in a few hours). It was not only a delight to read, but also aesthetically pleasing and nice to hold in my hands.
It is an autobiography, but also a spiritual book. Although Sue does not claim to have “found God”, she did discover a [...]
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