27 Dresses is worse than The Hundred Dresses.

Favorite, the end of "The Conversation." I'm not going to put any spoilers here. It may be awkwardly enacted, with an odd shift of intonation which is not in the original conversation, but it is morally foreshadowed. "Lilies that fester."

Unfortunately, there's probably somebody out there saying just that.

Actually, a response to Eddie_the_Misanthrope: if the God of the Bible is real, then He created and loved those cities full of people. He "does not want a sinner to die." He tells Isaac's grandfather to leave his own people, in part *because* they would sacrifice their own relatives.

Gee, there used to be art house movie theaters! In Pittsburgh, we had the Guild, run by two old men. My father took my brother and me there Sunday afternoons, if we didn't go to the zoo. (I think Dad liked movies more because he could fall asleep.) Some of the movies they showed I hated: "Shame" I couldn't sit through…

Watched "The Goldbergs" on Youtube. Just episodes with Philip Loeb. Whatever one thinks of the subject matter, they are miracles of statement and compression. The one with a teenaged woman who is set up for a date is at once comic (_seven_ suitors!) and pathetic: the woman is framed in the window, just set up for…

The pages fell out of my copy. :(

I see reviews here which are more positive than _The Twilight Zone Companion_. Was that book too harsh, or its judgments too simplistic?

Try _The Mysterious Benedict Society_.

Apart from wonderful children's books, some of which have been mentioned here — _The Jungle Books!_  _Little House!_ _Narnia!_ — I've always loved books about other books. Two poetry books were wonderful; Harold Henderson's book on the great haiku poets and Ciardi's _How Does A Poem Mean?_ The haiku book had (English…

"Genesis. His choice."  — What am I quoting?

There is an irony to the racism in "Little House on the Prairie," a distance between what the characters say and what we as readers see.

Falling out? Chiz, chiz.

She might have been a rationalist, or a realist, or an anti-theist, or even conceivably a fundamentalist (though a lot of Christians get caught up by that chapter).

"But he never caught that whale . . ."

Where did you read that? I'm curious. I only had my copy because my mother was a painter and bought it for Arthur Rackham's illustrations.

According to the Presbyterians, we're all saints. It's just that somebody can be a saint and a no good so-and-so at the same time.

Yes: but every day somebody comes into his office and asks, "How can we make Pittsburgh just like every other town on earth?"

What about "Oh What A Night"? Albeit it's a lousy song . . .

I'm sorry to hear this. "Nashville or Bust" brought me into C & W.