Yay for Jonathan!

That would never have happened if they had just let Super Jonathan keep doing his thing.

That would never have happened if they had just let Super Jonathan keep doing his thing.

That book taught me to say "pawn to queen four" whenever chess comes up.  Even though I have long since forgotten how to play chess.

That book taught me to say "pawn to queen four" whenever chess comes up.  Even though I have long since forgotten how to play chess.

Good point.  And after the Oscars ceremony Hollywood seems to have rethought its love affair with Roberto Benigni.

Good point.  And after the Oscars ceremony Hollywood seems to have rethought its love affair with Roberto Benigni.

1derer you are sexy when you talk like that.

1derer you are sexy when you talk like that.

This should be its own topic/category!  Oddly enough, Philip Seymour Hoffman-wise, I'm now thinking of the anti-cult naysayer in The Master.

This should be its own topic/category!  Oddly enough, Philip Seymour Hoffman-wise, I'm now thinking of the anti-cult naysayer in The Master.

Or were you?

Or were you?

Per Enkidum, I was on vacation in a rental house and randomly started reading Pat Conroy's Beach Music and it had this whole fucking subplot about the Holocaust, which was sadly complicating the life of the Southern white boy Conroy-stand-in narrator.  I threw the book down in disgust (metaphorically, since it did not…

Per Enkidum, I was on vacation in a rental house and randomly started reading Pat Conroy's Beach Music and it had this whole fucking subplot about the Holocaust, which was sadly complicating the life of the Southern white boy Conroy-stand-in narrator.  I threw the book down in disgust (metaphorically, since it did not…

Not to be catty but one big problem was that it was a sweeping romantic epic with lots of sunlit closeups of its heroine and she had a weird frozen forehead.

Not to be catty but one big problem was that it was a sweeping romantic epic with lots of sunlit closeups of its heroine and she had a weird frozen forehead.

It got good reviews and I've been meaning to Netflix it.  I just think people don't want to see a buddy movie about cancer.

It got good reviews and I've been meaning to Netflix it.  I just think people don't want to see a buddy movie about cancer.

Word up!  Not enough Wilford Brimley riding a horse and carrying a bow and arrows!