Lots of times, I get a weird hankering in the wee hours of the night to make something like a treat. I confess I have a sweet-tooth but my problem is that my sweet-tooth is rather picky about how it is sated. So I often end up experimenting during those weird hankering nights. Because I’m … Continue reading
Movie Review: Bad Moms
It was pretty much everything I expected; funny, cliche, silly, touching, uplifting, reasonably realistic at times. I love that there was a pretty good diversity of class levels in the story but it *was* middle class. The ending “confessional” pretty much made up for the classist myopia however. After all, it’d be really unrealistic to … Continue reading
Movie Review: My Beautiful Broken Brain
There are many reasons why everyone should watch this movie: 1) this is illuminating on many scientific fronts, which is to say it will make you think about scary things 2) its inspiring without being inspiration porn because its made by the woman who experienced it. She was a videographer before the stroke and continues … Continue reading
Movie Review: Goodnight Mommy
The summary for this movie was not very good or helpful. This is not a splatter film nor a shock-scare film. It is a horror film in the technical sense of the word: what happens is horrifying but not terrifically scary. There’s a few squirmy scenes but they don’t last too long (thank goodness) It … Continue reading
Movie Review: Finding Dory
The good: its just as visually beautiful, it has all the same characters plus a bunch of new ones and when it gets going its hella fun the not-so-good: the first half of the movie actually drags. There’s catching up, fleshing out the back story and setting up the conflict but it really takes about … Continue reading
Why I’m not a Libertarian
For my friends who call themselves Libertarian: most of you aren’t really aligned with the Libertarian party though you may like some of the more theoretical notions of Libertarianism: the ideology. Saying “I’m against big government” is equivalent to saying “I’m against open wounds” – yeah sure we all are but its how you define … Continue reading
