~Saturday~ On Wednesday, October 7, I attended a lecture at NC State entitled, “Valuing Diversity: Lessons from Ugly Betty.” I knew of the TV show and character of Ugly Betty, but before this event, I didn’t know the actor’s name who played her or even that she was Latina. I’ve seen one portion of one … Read more
~Monday~ I’ve been going to plays produced by Manbites Dog Theater in Durham for many, many years now, and I joined their Board of Directors around four years ago, in 2008. I was asked to join the board as a result of a mass emailing I did to every person in my email address book … Read more
~Saturday~ I have been looking forward to seeing Sleepwalk With Me ever since I found out it was being made, and that Ira Glass of This American Life was involved in the project. Recently, however, I joined an episode of This American Life in the middle of one of its segments, and if I surmised … Read more
~Sunday~ Today I saw about 40 minutes each of The Hunger Games and Dark Shadows movies. Even though I didn’t see either one in its entirety, I wanted to do a public posting about them so as to pick them up in my all-the-movies-I’ve-ever-seen (well since I started keeping track here in 2003) list. I … Read more
~Sunday! This weekend while sitting for Frances and Vincent at Bob’s, I tried, for the second time, to watch his DVD copy of Barbra Streisand’s The Owl and the Pussycat, without luck. For the second time in as many tries, it got to a certain (albeit, different each time) place and just froze up. I … Read more
~Tuesday~ What’s up Doc? Tonight, the Carolina Theater showed the 1972 classic What’s Up Doc?, which I found out about through my friends Ed and Tim’s Facebook event invitation, and which I attended with my friends Bob and Laurel. I thought I had seen this movie when it came out, but if I did, I … Read more
~Monday~ I’ve seen two movies recently, with a few things in common: 1. Each of them had a protagonist, or protagonists, with huge, huge dreams. 2. Each of them had a gay character, or two (or ten). 3. Each of them had an actor, or actors, in them that I love, love, love. One of … Read more
~Wednesday~ “I think the eyes are so important. I believe the eyes are the soul; I truly do.” I watched The Eyes of Tammy Faye online and free and I wanted to capture a few of my thoughts about it for posterity: Overall, this film didn’t really change my thoughts and feelings about Tammy … Read more
~Sunday~ Today I did something totally unexpected—I went to see a “Christian” movie, albeit ‘Blue Like Jazz’ Director Steve Taylor Says Film Isn’t ‘Christian’. I heard about this movie via a Facebook friend, Mike Morrell, whom I’ve met on a couple of occasions, each time connected with an event sponsored by, or to which I … Read more
~Sunday~ I abandoned one movie and saw two this weekend—two on DVD and the other one at the $2.00 movie. This is the one I abandoned, and it served me right, as the only reason I showed the slightest interest in it was because it had three hot men starring in it: Turns out that … Read more