As the scenes of terrorizing Elliot’s allies racked up, I was not too comfortable with the fact that the victims were all women. But then I reflected that there aren’t any sympathetic male characters left. Gideon? Mobley? Both dead.

Flying from Toronto to the US means that you have to go through US customs and immigration BEFORE you leave for the States, so the passengers are half-freaking out because they don’t want to miss their connections and the inadequate staff is crabby.

I visited an old friend who’s a bit of a recluse and he had newspaper over his windows. I kind of liked it.

Yeah, my birthday is the week before Christmas, so it’s all part of the holiday season. Also it makes it easy to figure out how old I was/will be in any given year.

Kathleen Norris, author of “The Cloister Walk”, offered this theory in her book “Dakota”: Jello salads, especially as part of the traditional church supper, were something of a status symbol for rural Midwestern housewives, because getting it to set right required a refrigerator, and if you had a refrigerator it meant…

Despite it being an extremely simple recipe, for me it’s soda bread. It won’t mix and the texture is always poor

To each their own, but I really don’t get the hobby of collecting lifelike dolls. My sister-in-law has about 50, small and large, and I wonder “Why? Why?”

Many commenters have the same complaint, but not being a very observant person I didn’t notice it at all. It seems like something one wouldn’t pay attention to unless you were engaging/looking at a person directly. Of course, a snow leopard would be hard to miss!

I read “La Belle Sauvage” when it came out two years ago, and found it a gripping adventure.

It’s a story thing, but the West of England does have a history of serious flooding, in fact it’s happening right now. Several years ago many people drowned in the Somerset area, and some scholars speculate that one source of the Arthurian “Isle of Avalon” was prehistoric deluges that created islands throughout the…

I have no prior experience with Watchmen, in any of its forms, but I did appreciate seeing a tough older woman as the center of the episode. I don’t know whether she is a good guy or a bad guy, and I didn’t care.

Thankfully, I suppose, I read all the books and then saw the movie, and I can’t remember anything about the movie’s ending.

Mine makes a loud beep when the power goes out and then comes back on. It kept doing that during a recent windstorm and kept me up half the night.

There is indeed a shrieking aspect to it that might creep out the listener instead of enrapturing them.

On a mildly serious note, I was more impressed by Minority Report’s vision of the 2040's. Some grime, some gleam, but mostly it looked pretty much like today’s world. I’ve noticed that Apple? Microsoft? someone has been pushing a vision of wall-sized touch-screen computers that are very similar to the technology in…

My youth was in the Fifties and Sixties, so in my suburb most kids went home for lunch, put on their costumes, came back to school for a party, afterwards went trick or treating in the neighborhood (since nearly every house had someone at home in the late afternoon), then home for dinner. At night there was a…

“Light from light, true God from true God...”—the Nicene Creed.

Body odors are a funny thing... Back when I practiced martial arts in the  Seventies guys who hadn’t washed their uniforms smelled like chicken soup to me.

Take my advice, kids: don’t watch it while you’re tripping.

Yeah, until his character rapes Diana Rigg.