Tonight We Dine At Applebees!

I was pleased a couple days ago to find a comment to my post on Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction from my cross-country friend Timothy Hughes who was enthused to find what’s become a rare film review from me, and expressed interest in hearing what I might have to say about 300, which Susan and I saw a couple weeks ago …

Frontyard Flower

I may not have time to stop and smell the flowers whenever I want but I can always spare a second and snap their picture (click image to go big): I love the wrinkled-paper look of the delicate petals and I don’t care who knows it.  

Frequent Flier Smiles

Tony Pierce just posted on LAist about photographer Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter being on a flight to Miami and another passenger onboard just happened to be Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who obliged the popular shutterbug by posing for a couple pix (here and here). Wow. One could come up with several reasons why Villaraigosa’s smile is so fake …

Me & Monty II

My ballpoint pen of choice for some 20 years has been the Montblanc Meisterstuck. I don’t mean I load up on pallets of them every five years, like so many disposable Bics. I mean that in 20 years this is the pen I’ve carried with me and used for writing purposes great and small. Yes, …

The Real Will Ferrell Just Stood Up

Since I just mini-ranted about 24 in my previous post, I want to take part of my lunch hour to mini-rave about the absolutely marvelous Stranger Than Fiction that apparently came and went last year just long enough for me to read a brief good review in Entertainment Weekly or the L.A. Weekly and put it on my Netflix …

“24” Rhymes With Bore

At the risk of damaging any tenuous perception that I have an intellect, my must-see-TV list consists of the following programs: 24 American Idol Lost Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip Survivor Susan and I were both into Heroes pretty diligently, but then it went on a lengthy mid-season hiatus around Christmas only to come back rather sluggishly which waned my enthusiasm …