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5/31: Badlands
December 5, 2011 – 9:12 AM | 9 Comments
5/31: <I>Badlands</I>

This is probably the Terrence Malick movie for people who hate Terrence Malick. I do not hate Terrence Malick; I find his work fascinating (with one exception, The Thin Red Line, which I have now …

Big Country Little Car Tour II, Day 21: Davenport, IA to Northwood, OH
August 22, 2011 – 4:40 PM | 22 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour II, Day 21: Davenport, IA to Northwood, OH

I wished I could stay at the hotel longer. So big! Such good coffee in the lobby! So tired of portaging my bags in and out and up and down, getting stuck in doors, making …

Love Happens
July 6, 2010 – 9:24 PM | 11 Comments
<I>Love Happens</I>

I have a piece forming at the horizon of my mind, like a cloud that intends hail, about the tiresome undimensional treatment of the widow/er in contemporary Hollywood product, but it will have to wait …