My dad and I saw Hard Times when I was seven years old.
It’s a Walter Hill film starring Charles Bronson as a Depression-era streetfighter and James Coburn as his manager. There’s a great quote in the film by the Strother Martin character, Poe. Poe is introduced as a fight doctor who has “two [...]
As yesterday’s post made clear, this site would be utter crap without several dozen people who write posts and/or comments, and we’d be a few crazy people alone in a room without others reading and leaving traces on the server logs. As I believe I’ve said before, I never would have thought when this started [...]
With close to 300 posts to choose from, our readers and contributors have cast their votes. In some categories the winners were clear; in some, multiple-way ties were the order of the day, and we’ve no choice but to list more than three. If you’re new to The Great Whatsit, use the links below as a [...]
January 2nd started off quite nicely when an email from my immigration lawyer announced that my I-140 immigration petition has been approved. This means that the second stage of my green card application is complete, and I have just the third and final stage to go! It could take another year or two, but the [...]
It’s 3 AM, 3:18 to be exact, and I know because I’ve been watching the digital numbers change, a 15 becoming a 16 becoming a 17, every digital number able to be made out of the seven straight lines that form a digital number 8. I think I’m actually going to vomit – is that [...]