The other day I was musing on the fact that this blog is titled “Inkblots in the Life of an Author,” yet I make very few posts about the authorial part of my life. Probably most of you think I don’t actually do any authoring. Rest assured, I do write, every day, from about 10 [...]
Archive > March 2009
Spring Cleaning
I’m not really big into spring cleaning. Working from home, on my own schedule (which includes most Fridays off for grocery shopping and housework), I have time to clean my house pretty thoroughly on a regular basis. Back in December I did a major purge of stuff, so I don’t really need to do that [...]
Hey diddly dee, an alternate life for me!
The Walt Disney Company has opened the vault and released its animated classic, Pinocchio, on DVD and Blu-Ray for its 70th anniversary. This special two-disc combo includes the digitally remastered film, and a recently discovered alternate ending. What? An alternate ending to Pinocchio? What happens? Does the Blue Fairy decide that Pinocchio really was a [...]
The Movie Was Better
Last August I read John Boyne’s novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and while I appreciated the unique perspective through which the book depicted the Holocaust (that of an eight year-old boy who doesn’t understand what’s being done to the Jews), I was underwhelmed. However, I just watched the movie, and for the first [...]
With Liberty From Telemarketers For All
Three times this week we’ve received phone calls from Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty. It’s the same woman every time, and every time she asks for Mr. Burt, who has either been A) at work, B) in the middle of a computer game and unwilling unable to talk, or C) sleeping. The latter occurring on [...]