Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
(tbd)
Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford
his dark materials was one of my all-time favorite reads. this short story is good, quick, and fast-paced. (****)
Philip Pullman: Once Upon a Time in the North
really love these short story formats pullman is producing and hope to see more authors & publishers experiment with this (*****)
Let The Right One In (Sweden)
if bergman did a vampire flick. need i say more? a gem & a masterpiece. but still go see twilight. (*****)
The Fall
absolutely brilliant! how did this one go unnoticed this past year? (*****)
The House Bunny
anna faris is comic gold. exceeded all my expectations. (***)
The Wrestler
this movie made me weep for three hours (*****)
Despite what the NYT reported this morning, I remain firm in my belief that 2009 is going to be a positively incredible year. Slow and steady my friends.
Photo from The Big Picture: A man sorts dumplings in a kitchen at a village in Daxing, south of Beijing, China on Saturday Jan. 24, 2009. Villagers gathered Saturday to make thousands of meat dumplings in preparation for a feast to celebrate Chinese New Year. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
As you can see, I'm trying to revive this blog...again. What do you think so far of the new colors? I can't decide if it's fugly. I made a couple of other tweaks here and there. I'm also thinking hard about what I want this blog to be. Hmmm...any thoughts?
In the meantime, if you love this photo as much as I do, there's more where that came from. The Big Picture is The Boston Globe's incredible photo blog. Truly, one of the best things to happen to the Internets in 2008. There are usually three posts a week and I eagerly await everyone and am always blown away. Check out its stunning three-part "best of 2008" series, beginning here. The photo above is from part two. Click here for part three. The world is filled with magic, madness, misery, and mystery!
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Yes, this is really live and indicative of how I feel after such an extraordinary week.
Shoulda known he was a lefty.
