Bill Peebles, as I’m sure you know, is an award-winning* blogger, thinker, philosopher, and all-around insightful and amazing guy. He writes some great stuff over at ihopeiwinatoaster. If you haven’t read any of his achingly beautiful ramblings on life, parenting, and the joy and despair of growing up, do yourself a favor and check it […]
Category Archives: Movies
The 5 Back to the Future Inventions We Need that Nobody is Talking About
Look, I get it. We all want hoverboards and flying cars. Those are cool. They have the wow factor. And we already have a lot of stuff that was predicted in the Back to the Future series, but here, today, on Back to the Future Day, October 21st, 2015, let’s take a moment to talk […]
I Was Kicked Off the D.C. Metro For Life. Twice.
The metro system used to close at midnight every single day of the week, including weekends. So it was when I was at school, and so it was when I begin my story. There also used to be no movie theaters in Georgetown or Foggy Bottom, so we movie buffs of The George Washington University […]
Throw-It-Back Thursday: Some Things Don’t Age Well
Sound the trumpets! Alert the Media! Throwback Thursday has returned! Today is the day (it only comes around once every seven!) on which we take the time to remember how wonderful things used to be, and how great everything was. You know. Back when everything was good. Of course sometimes we are wrong about that. Did you know that […]
The Difference Between a Storyteller and a Character: on Joss Whedon, Age of Ultron, and the Problem with Twitter
Joss Whedon quit Twitter a few days ago. He hasn’t said exactly why, but I think we can all use some educated guessing and rampant speculation to assume that it is because everyone on Twitter was shouting at him. You see, there are some people very angry about his new movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron. They […]
The 10 Movies You HAVE to See this Summer, If I Am Going to Win My Fantasy Summer Movie League
I was at my niece’s birthday party when Cave Dane jumped out of the shadows and announced a surprise fantasy movie draft. Some of you may remember that last summer my brother-in-law decided to run a fantasy league for summer movies, in which we all got a pool of money with which to purchase summer […]
The Pros and Cons of a New Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Spin-off
It was just leaked/announced that Marvel is developing a spin-off show from its popular hit “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” This is exciting news for me, because I love that show and all things Marvel. It is also exciting because the last spin-off they did, “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” was so ridiculously awesome. Seriously. If you did not […]
A Few Things I Learned About Hosting a Movie Screening
When the Oscar nominations were announced, I knew I was in trouble. We had only seen three of the five nominated animated films! My daughter asked how we could see them all, and instead of saying “we can’t,” I stupidly decided to figure out a way for it to happen. Do to the evils of the […]
How to Make a Grand Budapest Hotel Cake
My regular readers will recall that, at my last Oscars party, I attempted to make a “Baked Nebraska” in honor of one of the nominated films. They will also recall how it was a complete disaster (but quite delicious), so everyone breathed a sigh of relief when no movies with the syllables “aska” were in […]
Win Tickets to Studio Ghibli’s “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya!”
In case you missed my previous posts about how excited I am, let me reiterate my enthusiasm for my latest harebrained scheme. I have become a movie captain in the hopes of bringing the new, Oscar-nominated, 100% Rotten Tomato-scored, Studio Ghibli movie “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” to Burlington, VT. I have hung posters […]