Archives: April2010

• Doggy News: Little Lilly’s Growing Up

  I’m sure you remember the post I made about a month and a half ago concerning the arrival of an adorable, slightly awful white shepherd pup named Lilly who came to stay with us. The first pictures I posted of her were of a tiny, fluffy white puppy who was scared of her own shadow [...]

• Video: James Franco as Allen Ginsberg (Howl)

  Anyone who knows me knows I’m a huge fan of beat poetry and novels. They had such interesting, sometimes tragic (sometimes not) lives, especially those like Ginsberg who were targeted and marginalized during their lives for rubbing society the wrong way – even if that wrong way seems innocent to us now. Of course there [...]

• Video: Fat Bettie Plus Sized Rockabilly

  I stumbled across a video, and ultimately a website, that piqued my interest today. I think the title of this blog post is misleading, because Fat Bettie can’t be summed up as Rockabilly and it’s not quite Goth. It’s a little retro, a little vintage, very modern and just gorgeous. She’s even coined the term [...]

• Film Reviews: Midnight (1939)

  One of my all-time favorite films is one I’d never seen until this month – a film from 1939 called Midnight, starring the incomparable, hilarious Claudette Colbert and the dashing, handsome and talented Don Ameche as a broke necessity-induced con woman and a love sick cabbie who’s affection leads him on a wild goose chase [...]