• this era sucks_anne taintor
    Movie Musings

    Movie Tropes That Get On My Nerves

    First off, let me just say, I am all for watching movies. It’s one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with reading and cooking. If I watch a movie, unless it’s terrible, I usually can finish the movie. However, movies with themes that involve weak females will ruin that movie immediately. I just want to know why? Like, did you really have to lean so far into the stereotype did you have to lean to get this movie made?

  • Thoughts and Ponderings

    2012: A Look Ahead

    2012: A Look Ahead. I don’t often mention what I read or where I lurk, but check out this guy’s post on the coming year. I fully agree, 2011 sucked on so many levels. Global, national and local events careened out of control, spawning bigger and worse levels of apathy from the global populace. To say 2012 is going to be loads better is putting pressure on a year for it to perform; thereby dooming it to fail from performance anxiety. I liked this guy’s blog tactic and his year 2012 predictions are hilarious and socially au courant! I might just go back and read another of his posts at…

  • My So Called Life

    Desperately seeking kitchen…

    I have a smallish kitchen now. I miss my kitchen back in Virginia. For someone who likes to cook, having adequate space for storage and prep is key. Unfortunately that is the one thing this kitchen does not have, so I have to reinvent the wheel literally with this place.