>Do we think that the Somalian pirate drama is going to dampen the enthusiasm for “fun” pirates in children’s books? Or for–oh Lord, please–National Talk Like a Pirate Day? Elizabeth thinks not. We just talked and she opined that the pirate thing had already run its course anyway. But there was a sturdy tradition of [...]
>We’re still here . . .
January 21, 2009 By 10 Comments
>And would Jane Eyre Twitter?
January 9, 2009 By 15 Comments
>Add ‘em up, Bobby
November 18, 2008 By 16 Comments
>Fiction doing backflips
February 4, 2008 By 4 Comments
>In watching the three Bourne movies in close succession over the past week, Richard and I spotted a neat thing we had missed when viewing them at the theater: the final scene of the second movie, The Bourne Supremacy, is also the climax of the third movie, The Bourne Ultimatum, with a completely different dramatic [...]
>Another Phone Call from the Past
November 10, 2007 By 7 Comments
>I realized a forty-year-old dream last night when we went to see a community theater production of Hair. The Rent of its day–although far more transgressive–Hair was the Big Thing for little show-tune freaks, given even more appeal by the fact that we had to listen to the record (which was all we knew of [...]
