I had never heard of Oshawa until I discovered I had great-great-grandparents from there. Then I found out it’s a city of 140,000, the Detroit of Ontario. This is a dark day indeed for our neighbours.

Skip “Mary Queen of Scots”. Great costuming, of course, Margot Robbie gives a new interpretation of Elizabeth, but basically this movie is filled with angry people being angry and outraged over everything, as well as its being wildly ahistorical. I’m not talking about Mary and Elizabeth never meeting in real life — I…

This episode was so noir I could barely see it on my TV. On the other hand the lighting, or lack of it, made the actors’ eyes glitter. I don’t know if that was intentional.

Certainly it’s worth seeing Pixar movies on a big screen.

It’s so cold I wore 3 sweaters and broke out my mink coat.

Years ago I saw an interview, I think on the Merv Griffin show, with a stage actress - not anyone I had heard of - who was noted for crying real tears at every performance of the play she was in, 8 times a week. She explained that she would think about things that had happened to her, etc., but the interesting thing…

I bet the snowplow drivers do. Great outlet for road rage!

You are probably correct.

That’s what I thought. At first I assumed the son was a little boy, but when he is said to have died a heroin overdose I guessed not.

Except that if an action movie doesn’t contain dead/raped women, it’s newsworthy.

In the early Sixties action series “The Man and the Challenge” the hero survived a plunging elevator (sabotaged by an evil mastermind) by grabbing onto the overhead light and hanging from it. I don’t know how well this would actually work, but ever since I saw that episode lo these many years ago, when I get into an…

No! It’s only 20!

Who played the white-haired mother (I think), seen in a near-death vision? She reminded me of someone, then I realized I was thinking of Elaine Pagels, who is a Princeton professor and so probably it was someone else.

I put on a compilation CD of Stax Records greatest hits, and along came “Never Can Say Goodbye” — not the Jackson Five with adolescent Michael, but what I assume is the original version by Isaac Hayes, sung as an adult, slowly. I had been going through my late husband’s papers, and I totally lost it.

I didn’t get a headache watching it, but I was thinking, So this is Instagram... What the youngsters are up to these days.

Me too. By cracky, when I was a youngster the season began in the middle of September, like it oughta. “Mid-season” meant January. There might be summer shows to fill up the time between seasons, and if the show was popular it might even get picked up for the next season, e.g. the Smothers Brothers. None of this,…

A French friend told me about switchel, a kind of vinegar-lemon-ginger drink, so i made a batch. haven’t tried it yet bu it sounds like a version of kombucha only without the mushroomy starter. Apparently it’s an old thirst-quencher for farm workers, and now it’s the New Thing in New York.

Maybe because it’s a unique take on superheroes.

Yes yes yes to the 40's Warner Brothers cartoons. Some of the celebrities parodied were from radio, like Eddie Cantor (“I can dream, can’t I?”) or Jerry Colonna (“Is every body happy?” Maybe I have them backwards.), so I’ve really only ever seen them via Bug Bunny cartoons. Tallulah Bankhead, Veronica Lake, so many…

I used his article on “Beowulf” for my term paper on Anglo-Saxon literature, because of course I had to.