Category: The Pop Culture

I’m the 49%

I slept for 12 straight hours last night. You can go ahead and be jealous, I understand how much of a gift that was. Truthfully, though, I’ll let you behind my great and powerful curtain and let you in on a secret—it wasn’t as glamorous as it sounds. I had…

I Am Serious. And Don’t Call Me Shirley.

My son named our dog. “Mama, his name has to be Indiana.” “Why’s that, bud?” “Because,” he said, in his best Sean Connery-esque Scottish accent, “We named the *dog* Indiana.” (If you get the reference, we can be instant friends.) Two important things were decided that day four years ago….

It’s Going To Be a Busy January: A Les Miserables Tale

As I watched Oscar nomination posts pop up all over Twitter last week, it suddenly hit me that I was running out of time. There were too many movies to see before February 24th. This is not for lack of trying, mind you. The stomach flu kept me from seeing…