The Lady in the Van (2015)

~Sunday~ Bob and I are both huge fans of Maggie Smith and have been waiting for The Lady in the Van to become available to us on Netflix. We recently finished the final season of Downton Abbey, during whose run we enjoyed many, many witty, snarky, and meme-worthy quips of The Dowager Countess, for which … Read more

North Carolina’s Funniest contest…

~Tuesday~ Tonight I attended one of the 10 preliminary rounds of the North Carolina's Funniest amateur stand-up comedy contest at Goodnight's Comedy Club in Raleigh. This was an out-of-my-comfort-zone outing, but I wanted to support my colleague and friend, Matt Morain, whom I happen to think is a very, very intelligent-funny person. Aversion to stand-up … Read more

The Martian (2015)…

~Sunday~ In March of this year, I went to the Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas, where the closing keynote speaker was none other than Andy Weir, the author of the book, The Martian. When describing the publication history of the book, he mentioned that at one time it was available for download for $.99 … Read more

Testament Of Youth (2014)…

~Sunday~ I found the title of this movie saved in my iPhone “Notes” file, which means someone I was talking to—at some time, somewhere—recommended it. I thought it was my friend Todd, but he said it wasn’t him. At any rate, watching the trailer, I quickly decided it was “my kind of movie,” and naturally … Read more

The Atomic Man (1955)…

~Wednesday~ I’m not a fan of sci-fi, so it’s an anomaly that I watched this film. Bob had paid—which is also an anomaly—to stream it from Netflix, and since we had access to it for several days, I went ahead and watched it, too. Bob had already watched it, himself, but he watched again with … Read more