Some prefer Pepsi. In high school. we shape our identity partly through our choice of and loyalty to brands.  It is one way we can express in family, which presents [...]

A movie comes along.  This one did. Masterpiece.  Kurasawa.  Huge.  All the words blow away like the sand.  What God hath wrought.   What can we do now for the children? [...]

In the house of cards, what is “The” card?  Kevin Spacey. Kevin is the shark that swims through the water, that causes the cuts, that creates the wake, that [...]

If you want judgment ripped out of you, watch “Beasts of No Nation.”  Oh, sure; you’ll judge war to be bad.  No question about it – but you will [...]

I just saw the first half of Mad Max.  That is my review.  I thought I’d finish putting together my new office chair and hooking up my new printer.  It will [...]

The main takeaway – besides the pain in which so many live due to the pain inflicted by so many others – is that it is presumptuous to imagine that we can ask [...]

Sweet.  Who doesn’t like to see immigrants in Brooklyn in the 1920s breaking down the barriers between the ethnic groups via love and the painful yet necessary [...]

I liked the paint color on the walls in the apartment in Denmark.  I liked the doorways and hallways.  I liked the paintings.  I liked the orange row houses in [...]

At the moment when the men defied their superior’s order, I burst and I mean burst into tears.  For I don’t know how long – maybe 15, 20 minutes – [...]

Here’s the theory:  all the emotions are inside of you, guiding you and writing your story.  They do not really like each other much, but they have to get along. [...]

Good movie to see in the rain.  Go: you’ll see.  Time passes nicely even though it is over 2 hours long. Go, Leo. Oh, man!  Watch the moon as a clock:  give 7 days to a [...]

Do you suppose I really like to work out?  How could that be?  This week I am doing a pre-Oscar marathon:  mid-day movie then the gym then home.  Almost as soon as the [...]

It stands for Big Ripoff in this particular instance of selling short.  One wise guy could see from the numbers (the numbers no one looked at) that the housing market [...]

 Love me?  Kill me. This is the story of a girl wants to get love and has not been able to from her white trash family and a man wants to provide and has not been able to [...]

My White Ass Your black one.  Our red blood.  So many artists are screaming at us.  God is screaming.  Trees are yelling.  The sky has almost given up on us. The great [...]