Watch This: Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Still trying to forget
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a half and half sort of film. What’s good is very good, and what’s bad is pretty bad indeed. Here’s what I liked:
Jason Segal as the guy who gets dumped. He was the picture of morose self pity and the story’s beginning, and his performance grew more [...]

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It’s a Mystery: Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, by Janet Evanovich

 Bar-B-Q
Janet Evanovich  said in an interview that Stephanie and crew will never age during the course of this series. Big mistake, because Stephanie never learns, never makes life-enhancing choices, never grows. Kind of like Ground Hog Day. In this 15th episode, the plot, such as it is, descends into slapstick. Once an author resorts [...]

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1930’s Marriage Test

Times have changed. Have they ever! Whether you’re a husband or a wife, see how you’d have rated on a test for spouses from the 1930’s ….

test
I got a 56.

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Songs That Get Stuck in Your Head

Does this ever happen to you? C’mon, of course it does. Last night, trying to get to sleep, and round and round in my head, I kept hearing, “All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray, I been for a walk, on a winter’s dayyyyyy.” In waking life, I don’t think I’ve heard [...]

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Playing with Words: Anagram Generator

Looking for  a fun and amusing time waster? (Who isn’t?) Click  here, type in your name, and this nifty app will, quick as a wink, produce a list of hundreds of anagrams using all the letters. You might even find a new screen name. For instance, who knew that my name translates to such catchy [...]

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Some More Quotes about Books

“The book you don’t read can’t help.”  Jim Rohn
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marks
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” [...]

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Watch This: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Love and life have bypassed middle-aged Guinevere Pettigrew, who is the quintessential English governess, newly unemployed. Beautiful but ditsy American singer Delysia Lafosse is doing her utmost to land a plum role on the London stage. When Guinevere approaches Delysia in hopes of a job, opposites attract, and it isn’t long before Guinevere sets her [...]

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Romantic Lorenzo Dow

After Peggy died, Lorenzo became acquainted with a young woman named Sally, from the Colchester, CT area. One night he took her for a buggy ride and tried to get her to accept his marriage proposal. He had already made arrangements with the Rev. John Whittlesey to marry them as soon as the girl said [...]

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Women’s History Timeline for Mother’s Day

Women’s History Timeline
For The Onion’s salute to the Woman, our Advisory Board on Matters Pertaining to Women voted on the most important events in the history of the Woman and presented them in chronological order for easy reading, for women!

9000 BC – Stairs invented; Women provided with effective excuse for injuries sustained from abusive, [...]

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Blackfly Festival 2009 – you’re invited

The Sixth Annual Adamant Blackfly Festival & Parade
“Downtown” Adamant, VT
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Mark your calendars, stock up on repellant, and start mixing up the paper mache: the date for the seventh annual Adamant Blackfly Festival has been set for Saturday, May [...]

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