by Ira | Mar 19, 2015 | Challenge, Journal
Golly what a day. Robin Hood was my *favorite* movie when I was a kid. That and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Mostly, though, it was Robin Hood. Mondays were movie days when I was growing up, before I had siblings and my mom got married. It was just the two of us,...
by Ira | Mar 5, 2015 | Challenge, Journal
So, I sit writing this from the Rose Room in my parents’ house up in Humboldt. Flew up tonight, landing at 11:30, and I’m here for the morning and afternoon tomorrow before driving my mom’s car down to their place in Mountain View and taking a flight...
by Ira | Feb 1, 2015 | Challenge, Journal
I watched the Super Bowl today. It was quite a game. Back and forth the entire time, with several momentum switches. It was really all about the last 2:00 of the game, tho. Pats scored the go-ahead touchdown right before the 2 minute warning, which meant the...
by Ira | Oct 30, 2014 | Challenge, Film, Journal, Reviews
Not devoting an entire blog entry tonight to this early Oscar-contender, but I will give it a nod in the title because it was quite good. First off, I went into this movie knowing *literally* nothing about it. No idea what the premise was, who was even in it until it...