After watching the first several Shyamalan films, I noticed that his basic recurrent theme is of evil/hostile beings trying to get into the house. I did find the movies intriguing, even though the plots don’t always make sense. After The Village, whose twist could have been handled so much better, I lost interest, but…

In point of fact, Jesus “sweating blood” is a common misconception, even if it’s a useful expression. The Gospel of Luke (capt. 22) actually says “his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”

Yay! That’s by Sarah Andersen. I have this cartoon on the wall at home, next to the several bookcases of books I haven’t read yet.

I don’t know which is worse, that people make money producing nothing for people who are purchasing nothing, or that I read an article about same. My excuse is that I was educating myself on the latest crumbling of civilization.

That ought to be on a bumper sticker.

I am unapologetically a cat person and have always been irritated by the negative portrayal of cats, all the way back to Tom and Jerry. I can take their independence and dual nature, so why can’t Hollywood show them in their complex glory? All I can think of is “The Three Lives of Thomasina”. Which come to think of…

“A wise nazi slayer”? And here I thought he was going to be a wise Nazi who slays vampires.

Torture porn, e.g. Saw and its ilk.

I would assume because from the moon, relative to the stars and planets, the earth is really big.

We don’t know everything about what’s there yet. Maybe nothing more than what we already know. Then we can ignore it.

That would be a great twist.

Thanks, it’s a word I knew even before Woody Allen used it.

I work at a semi-annual library book sale in a college town. We’re talking half a million items (not just books), twice a year. Often books tha tare kept in the gaage, attic, basement or barn are dusty, mildewed, may have critters, have water damamge. so you have to ask yourself, if you were buying this book online…

Westworld (the movie), Star Trek, and AI (Spielberg) come to mind, but maybe they are too jejune.

What I consider classic is in the singer-songwriter/folk style of the Seventies. Also I forgot Cris Williamson, mea culpa, like forgetting Elvis in the history of rock&roll. These women are folky and bluesy, tending towards guitar and piano. Teresa Trull’s music is fun. In the Eighties the musicians got more overtly…

I was there too... 600,000 people, they said (I got really sick of acne), it was very hot and if you had 3 square feet you were lucky. The most fun part was hitching a ride from Watkins Glen to Pittsburgh. I live near Watkins Glen so of course I’m going.

If you want to go deep into classic lesbian “women’s music” take a look at the artists offered at Ladyslipper.org. - Ferron, Teresa Trull, Holly Near, Phranc, there are a zillion, if you want to go old-school. Try the link below:

Yeah, I remember when The Learning Channel had things you could learn about besides the difference between skanky Amish and skanky Mennonites.

Make sure you have appropriate snacks!

Because when an important person has lifelong debilitiating experiences, or dies of something indeterminate, the natural reaction for the inquisitive is to try to figure out what it was. People are still trying to figure out Vincent Van Gogh. In Darwin’s case, some people have conjectured that his illnesses, or at…