Hey folks! I do love snark-tweeting a movie. I used to do it a LOT, mostly because I had no social life. Now I DO have a social life, and it includes people who apparently find nothing more amusing than…
Category: Movies
April Really is the Cruelest Month . . .
Just cuz it’s so busy! Lots of grading leading up to the end of the semester, of course, but I also have a book due May first, which always makes for a horrendous time. That said, I may be out…
Movies I Like: Art & Copy
If you follow me on social media or are unlucky enough to have to put up with me in real life, you’ll know I’m obsessed with Mad Men. My poor students went through the first weeks of the semester being…
When My Ears Burn, It HAS To Be Good . . .
For this Monday I thought I’d fire off a couple of recommendations. One is a film and one is a novel, but what both have in common is some of the most creative, hilarious use of vulgar language I’ve heard…
“Jumping Jack Flash” Might Be Jane’s Missing Mother and League Pimpage
First of all, I am flexing my wrist in preparation of EXERCISING MY PIMP Â HAND. For the ever lovely and fabulous Dakota Cassidy’s new book, Accidentally Demonic, is out tomorrow! I haven’t read this one, yet, but I’ve read all…
Young/Old Sherlock Holmes
In 1985, when I was seven, there came a movie that would be my obsession for many a year: Young Sherlock Holmes. I adored everything about this movie. The special effects were, at the time, out of this world. The…