This weekend, I’ll be heading to my dad’s lake cabin for the weekend. I spent many weekends of my childhood in this little cabin, which also hosted grandparents, uncles, aunts, and a gaggle of young cousins. One fine summer weekend, I was reading on a couch, facing a bank of …
Today’s social media networks are bubbling with the news that Worldcon has scheduled a screening of Song of the South, as part of a program of anime and animation not easily found via DVD or Netflix. Many people are debating whether this is a good idea or not. The reason …
That’s right! A Reel Education, the movie podcast I inhabit with Tim Wick and Jena Young, will be recording an episode LIVE at the Parkway Theater on September 9th, 2013! With this live recording session, you will also get to enjoy the wonderful Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the 1961 classic starring Audrey …
EDNOS: a medical acronym that stands for “Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified” It’s a messy thing. This is the acronym used for people who have eating disorders that aren’t classically classifiable as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. It’s a junk drawer of eating disorders, and it includes purgeless binge eating. …
Tonight and tomorrow (July 26th and 27th), I will be running the video screen at the Vilification Tennis show at the Bryant-Lake Bowl. Vilification Tennis is essentially tennis played with insults, and it is one of the more popular and nerdy comedy shows in the Twin Cities. (It is also …
After a little bit of troubleshooting (“Hey, did anyone submit the link to iTunes yet?”), my latest podcasting endeavor, A Reel Education, is now on iTunes! Thus, if you are one of those iTunes-using types, you can now easily subscribe to A Reel Education and have Apple delivery it directly …
If you were paying attention around Oscar-time, you may have noticed that a film called The Impossible was up for a few awards here and there. Naomi Watts was nominated for acting awards pretty much everywhere. Many film critics were hailing the film as a fine drama. However, of all …
In one of my previous Tales from the Workplace tales, I mentioned that I once worked at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. I would strap myself into an expensive costume and use a bad English accent to sell things to dusty Minnesotans who had drunk too much. This tale predates the previous …
I admit, this is probably the least useful how-to article ever written. People who fall in love with the cinema seem to have no problem plunging in without any guidance whatsoever. However, these thoughts have been rattling around in my brain for a while, and for me, any excuse to …
Many years ago, I was in Puerto Rico as part of a web design team for the U.S. government (which is, in itself, a long story). I was due to fly back home in the early afternoon, and I had the morning to kill. I’d never prowled around the old …
