An unusual and unexpected side effect of going back to school is the amount of television I watch. In my stay-at-home mom life, I rarely watched tv.  In fact, I often went weeks without watching even a few minutes of the news, instead getting most of my information on line.  Don't get me wrong, the tv was almost always on but hearing Nickelodeon in the background hardly qualifies as watching tv. So why more tv now?  Simple.  Sip and thirst. Going bac...

I don't watch much television.  In fact, the channel played most in my house is Cartoon Network.  I could write an essay on Ben Ten and his alien watch thing, or on Courage the Cowardly Dog, but as for real adult programming, uh, not so much. So last time I was at the movie theater I saw an ad for a show called "Saving Grace" starring the fabulous and talented Holly Hunter.  I thought, "Hmmm, that looks good.  Maybe I'll watch it." Last night I did. Holly...

I went to see this movie today. I saw all the other Indiana Jones movies in excess, each several times. I found this movie to be technically on par with the previous  movies.  You may think that is a good thing, but it's not.  It looks as if it were shot fifteen years ago.  Except computer generation, none of the new cutting edge cinematography for action movies is present. Remember when it was IJ vs nature vs traps and all the excitement? That el...

  <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value=" http://www.youtube.com/v/cqi5F5MqqTQ&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src=" http://www.youtube.com/v/cqi5F5MqqTQ&hl=en " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>