memories
* In my high school writing class, in 2006 or 2007, Robbie said “I’ve got a pretty good joke. What do Saddam Hussein and a potato named Richard have in common?” There was some silence as people thought, and then C_____ answered, “They’re both brown?” * In Palm Springs, in
He was looking at a bird when it happened, but it didn’t have anything to do with birds and who knows why your brain makes these connections, if there are even connections to make, if getting an idea isn’t just a spasm that pitches something deep in the
memories
My dog died. Last Thursday, Johanna took Pumpkin Pie to the vet for a check-up on Pump's chronic kidney disease, and was told our sweet dog probably had less than a year of living left. On Friday, some test results from the previous day's visit came
movies
The worst Disney movie death is clear in my mind. In 1994, the company remade its 1967 Jungle Book adaptation as Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, a naming scheme lifted directly from Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This was Disney's first