This week's sporkful

I intend to finish with Walter Mitty today, but first, what have we learned? I keep coming back to something that I saw on the Wikipedia en...

While the 1947 movie has a gentler spirit, it is very much of the same world as the 1939 story. The jobs aren't that satisfying and the ...

Years ago we had a neighbor, Steve. I remember my father saying that Steve wasn't racist; he hated everyone. The weird thing about that ...

Someone had a 50th birthday in March, and I wanted to do a playlist for it. I knew it would be the March songs, but I wanted there to be fif...

I was pretty sure that the Ben Stiller version would need to be different psychologically.  I mean, from the commercials it looked like it w...

"Anatole of Paris" was written by Sylvia Fine, Danny Kaye's wife. She was a lyricist and composer professionally, separately f...

After writing about  The Help  and the limited understanding of race relations that went into producing both the book and the movie, I thoug...

I don't really know why I am writing about these now. This is about two books, neither of them read recently. The Help  by Kathryn Stock...

Now it's time to get back to  The Other Bennett Sister , which I still have not watched, though I have seen many more clips. https://spo...

This post title was the title of a terrible movie, a spoof that was neither funny nor clever. For this series of posts, perhaps it makes sen...

In the first installment of  The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club ,  The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter , it appear...

Writing about this has been very drawn-out; there was a lot happening. I pursued different themes, and had other things to write about that ...

There can be a lot more to say about death, disagreement, and disinformation, as well as dehumanization. I will get to that, though I think ...

I have mentioned hyperbole and exaggeration, but it is probably more of an outright lie that liberals were celebrating Charlie Kirk's de...

Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander on  Buffy the Vampire Slayer , died on March 20th. He was less than a month away from turning 55. Xander...

I know; there was a bit of a gap, as I was last writing about this in January.  There are always a lot of things to write about. I will try ...