He fought so long against cancer and clearly endured a lot of suffering. Yet he kept working and being busy. Makes me want to stop whining and get on with the work that's important to me.

Try Valhalla Rising if you dig him- a little slow and odd, but plenty violent and  interesting with Mads as a mute slave warrior in early medieval/Viking times.  Unrecognizable.

I read the story years ago - and I am sorry to admit I have purposefully avoided this Twilight Zone ep because the story was so disturbing. I guess I have to be brave and try it.

I learned only recently that Shel Silverstein wrote A Boy Named Sue. Mind blown at first - but you can see that sense of dark humor in his poetry for kids.

Yes. When I was a kid just beginning to listen to the news while this was happening, it seemed like all this bewildering anger toward Americans came out of nowhere. It didn't. I've learned somewhat more about world history as I've grown up (I hope) but that intro was still an eye opener and I bet it was for a lot of…

Fight Club is the only episode I actively hate out of all nine seasons. It must all be Kathy Griffin's fault. She has no talent and nothing to offer so the only thing she can do is ruin everything she touches. She ruined Seinfeld as well. 
I blame Kathy Griffin for the general downward turn of western civilization,…

Saw this streaming on Netflix last year - wonder if it's still there. Great movie. Amazing dueling scenes. Harvey Keitel is distracting at first but by the end I didn't care.

Voyager never did live up to its opening sequence. The music and the images of the ship plunging through void were really neat, mysterious and grand. The show itself, not so much…

I actually agree with you - my husband was being lighthearted and was (mostly) joking but it did seem to illustrate the problem.

My husband loves this movie. He has said that my son can watch it when he's 13 and my daughter can watch it never…

For quite a while after this movie I had a hard time turning my back to the TV with the lights out. And I like the implacability of evil…you can't make up for it with niceness or a decent burial.

I say that whenever I zap popcorn for the kids' snack time, a cheery "poppin' corn!" They ask me about it…but they can learn about the Truth later, maybe when they're, oh, 18. That's a scary damn scene.

It's not nice theology. But it does fit in with one of the basic themes of The X-Files - that, horrifyingly enough, the crazy people are right more often than not. It also sort of calls back to All Souls, where the nice reasonable priest is a tool of Evil.

It's not nice theology. But it does fit in with one of the basic themes of The X-Files - that, horrifyingly enough, the crazy people are right more often than not. It also sort of calls back to All Souls, where the nice reasonable priest is a tool of Evil.

If you need something very, very mellow, I recommend Linus & Lucy: The Music Of Vince Guaraldi - George Winston performing Vince Guaraldi music from many of the Peanuts specials as well some of his other works. Love "Cast Your Fate to the Wind."

If you need something very, very mellow, I recommend Linus & Lucy: The Music Of Vince Guaraldi - George Winston performing Vince Guaraldi music from many of the Peanuts specials as well some of his other works. Love "Cast Your Fate to the Wind."

Take heart - my kids never liked Sesame Street, but now are warming up to the Muppets. Repeated exposure may be the key.

Take heart - my kids never liked Sesame Street, but now are warming up to the Muppets. Repeated exposure may be the key.

Read "
And Then There Were None" in junior high - not gory, but terrifying in a horrible, paranoid way.

Read "
And Then There Were None" in junior high - not gory, but terrifying in a horrible, paranoid way.