Except for a brief interval where I took my toddlers to the ball pit at the McD's on Capitol Hill every day, I have spent a lifetime scorning and avoiding McDonald's. I once barely spoke to a friend again who insisted on eating McDonald's on … [Read more...] about Judge not, lest ye end up having the best meal of your trip in McDonald’s
Archives for August 2014
Visit to a Worldly Vatican
While our writhing, dripping scorched flesh trip through the Vatican Museum this week may have presaged Michelangelo’s vision of hell on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, it did nothing to prepare me for the almost complete lack of Biblical references … [Read more...] about Visit to a Worldly Vatican
When in Rome…do what I usually do
I could have written the Control Freak's Guide to European Travel. I was brought up to travel like the "anti Ugly American." That is to say, to do everything to be respectful of the local culture, make a solid attempt to speak the … [Read more...] about When in Rome…do what I usually do
4 Snouts up for Boyhood in theaters now
(:)(:)(:)(:) 4 enthusiastic snouts up for Boyhood in theaters now. Directed, written and conceived by Richard Linklater (of Before Sunset fame), this extraordinary fictional piece chronicles the life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 … [Read more...] about 4 Snouts up for Boyhood in theaters now
Small is the new big–How Orange is the New Black tells the truth
After the first episode I watched of Orange is the New Black I dismissed it as soft core lesbian porn (if I had readers, several of them would have just made a note to watch it) and decided it was not for me. Then I hit a hot day with no … [Read more...] about Small is the new big–How Orange is the New Black tells the truth