When faced with the sheer enormity of evil and suffering, pain and despair, represented by slavery, it might be hard to see how love could make any real difference to people caught in its cruelly unyielding grip. But in the intimately expansive story of The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr., Continue Reading
Get ready for Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (review)
Have you ever wondered where Easter got its start? No, not the religious start which I think we can all agree has been rather fittingly and exhaustingly documented; rather, how did all the eggs and a particular bunny and all the other colourful parts of the holiday come to be Continue Reading
Up goes the Easter Beagle! Decorating my Easter tree with five pop culture ornaments – Tigger, Snoopy and Woodstock, Bugs Bunny, Taz Devil and Charlie Brown
I have an Easter tree! Yes, that is a little unusual to most people but dig down into the community of fervent Christmas tree decorators, of which I am a happy part, and you will discover that decorating for the festive season twice a year (yes, Christmas in July is Continue Reading
Come join David Attenborough and experience Life in Color
SNAPSHOTDavid Attenborough travels the world from the rainforests of Costa Rica to the snowy Scottish Highlands to reveal the extraordinary and never-before-seen ways animals use color. Using revolutionary camera technology created specifically for this series, viewers will experience how colors invisible to the human eye play a vital role in Continue Reading
Finding themselves before the truth finds them: Thoughts on Ginny & Georgia
MILD SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MUCH ANGST AND HEIGHTENED LIFE STUFF Ginny & Georgia is, in many salient ways, the anti-Gilmore Girls. This may sound like the obvious comparison to draw since the show is about a mother and daughter who are close in age – Georgia (Brianne Howey) had Continue Reading
Second life art: New York artist explains why he paints pop culture icons into discarded old paintings
SNAPSHOT“It came to me at a thrift store. I wanted to take something that had been forgotten and change it in a way that didn’t affect its aesthetic and to see if that, in and of itself, would make it wanted again.” (artist Dave Pollot via Laughing Squid) Op shops, Continue Reading
Book review: Stealing Time by Rebecca Bowyer
Every so often, and it’s not as often as you might think, a book comes along with an inspired premise so out there and yet so of its time, that you marvel at how someone managed to come up with such an original and insightful idea, one that casts a Continue Reading
Take them as read: New books from Dan Hanks and Chris Panatier
Two of my absolute favourite books from the hellmouth of a year that was 2020 were The Phlebotomist by Chris Panatier and Captain Moxley and the Embers of Empire by Dan Hanks. Apart the books being engrossing reads that told their stories superbly well and with great imagination and intelligence Continue Reading
Book review: The Museum of Forgotten Memories by Anstey Harris
It’s hard to say whether it’s an unwillingness to face up to the stark realities of someone dying and the deleterious effect that has on the living left behind or a desperate need to delusionally convince ourselves that life is lot more happy than it actually is, but grief is Continue Reading
Saturday morning TV: Inch High Private Eye
SNAPSHOTThe titular character of Inch High Private Eye is a miniature detective (literally one inch high), who attained his diminutive stature by way of a secret shrinking potion. Inch often enlists the help of his niece Lori (sometimes written “Laurie”), her muscle-bound friend Gator, and their dog Braveheart to help Continue Reading