I’m registered to vote, so I might as well. But honestly, any time I tune in and listen to what the politicians are saying, every sentence, every sound bite, just sounds dumb. I guess that’s why I haven’t voted in 15 years. Go ahead, be appalled, I don’t mind.
I think I’ll go and vote to […]

The Taming of the Shrew
is a fun play to remake into movies. You’ve got a spunky girl causing a bunch of trouble, an overbearing father and a lot of sexual tension with this new man in her life.  It’s a great formula for a Hollywood comedy.
I faked my way through an honors paper that asked the […]

High school seems like an apt setting for the type of jealousy and back-stabbery of Othello. And though I’m not sure  I’d ever be prompted to watch O (probably because of Julia Stiles, and despite Mekhi Phifer), I did let Quentin Tarantino talk me into watching Switchblade Sisters, a loosely based rendition in pure cult […]

If you didn’t know this about me already, I happen to be a white girl. But the year that Ella Fitzgerald died, I wanted to be her for Halloween, so I went out and got some dark brown theatrical make-up and slapped it on. I made a few mistakes that year:

I wore a sleeveless, backless […]