Watched for the Dream King Challenge. After one aborted attempt (and frankly this attempt was very nearly aborted, as apparently all of southern Maine is taking shelter from the cold in movie theaters), we finally managed to see Coraline last night. I love this movie. I’d hoped to be able to read the book before […]
Just wrapped up my rewatch of Doctor Who series 3, and upon reflection, I think this may be my favorite series, on the strength of a couple of stellar episodes. 2023 Note: We’re currently in the middle of rewatching this season, and were commenting on how weak it is because when it’s good, it’s very,
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My BF is a huge Neil Gaiman fan, so we have a large variety of Neil Gaiman’s work here at the house. With Jessi at Casual Dread starting a Neil Gaiman themed challenge, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to delve into the parts of the collection I haven’t touched yet. There are four levels of participation
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I finally finished Series 2 of what’s turning out to be a rather protracted Doctor Who-athon. I managed to watch all five seasons of Babylon 5 last holiday season, but Doctor Who’s taking me a bit longer. I found myself feeling rather nostalgic during this run, especially when they announced the casting of the eleventh
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In a fit of extreme brain-deadedness (the only coworker that shares my job full time has been on vacation for the past two weeks, and by the end of it, I was getting a little behind, and a little tired…), I managed to watch the entire first series of Doctor Who in two nights. (Well,
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Yesterday, not being much of a hordes of insane shoppers fan, and with the BF working, I decided to head into town to see Twilight. Of that, I’ll only say that I’m about fifteen years too old to be able to sit through that movie with a completely straight face. That being said, I did
Last night, we headed up to the Boothbay Harbor Opera House to see George Winston. Winston composes a great deal of the music he plays, focusing on piano, but he also played guitar and harmonica last night. Boothbay Harbor is about an hour north of Portland, and BF worked until 4:30, so we hopped in
Had another two movie week this week. It started on Thursday with Hellboy II, which is probably best described by the word charming. Not that I thought I’d be able to apply that word to this kind of movie, but then, I also didn’t think I’d get a Barry Manilow earworm out of it either.
I had a good movie weekend. On Friday night, spur of the moment, we decided to go see Wanted. I really enjoyed it. I’m told if you’re a fan of the original graphic novel, you may not like what they’ve done with the story, but I thought it worked. James McAvoy was great (and pulls
This past weekend, we headed up to Ellsworth to visit my father and C. As you can see, it’s taken me three days to recover from the trip enough to post about it. Item #1 to love about Ellsworth: The greenhouse in Dad and C’s house. We actually got there just in time for this
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