A recent Grumpy Rumblingspostprompted much thought and triggered many musings. First of all, I can’t believeA Separate Peaceis still taught in high schools. That book was dated and insignificant in my day. That
It’s true, but here, I think it’s something else. Maybe it’s because the time from when one is shooting a fiction film and when the film is released is always a long time. Sometimes a year, sometimes more, sometimes a little bit less. I have the feeling that many...
there are always a lot of things that get lost, but I still believe there is, somehow, an essence that remains to be understood. I think my film is hard to understand, or it has some elements that are hard to understand for many Romanians, even. Not only for foreign people. So yes...
Those were the good old days, but eventually we found a new home right next door to Jeff and Krista. It has enough room in our finished basement to hold about ten poker tables, but we’ll never have that many people over. Although, it’s a thought for down the road. In the meantim...
Where do the ideas for your books come from? This one is based on my mother’s side of the family in East Tennessee, where I spent my childhood summers, and some research I had done on my great-great-grandfather’s memoir of the Civil War. Otherwise, my ideas spring from things I ...
In many shelters it is standard practice to hose the kennels down as an easy way of cleaning – whatever the time of year – and it is a lot easier to hose the cages and cells down while the animals are in there rather than take them out so that is the way it often happens. ...
In 2017, Charlie Blackmon was on fire for the Rockies both for his on-field play and the blossoming of his amazing beard that he still sports to this day. So there were lots of fake beards and real beards as many people donned the gear and went as the Rockies slugger. ...
Oh, yeah. So, first of all, far too many people equate introversion with social anxiety, when those are two totally different topics. One can actually be an extrovert and suffer extreme social anxiety. Really. Not kidding. He’s usually the sweet quiet guy in the corner of a dance club...
Despite all of Pixar's incredibly creative and original ideas for their stories, there is one thing they have in common. If you look at all the posters and promotional images for their movies, the main characters all make a similar facial expression. The meme pictured here is one of the ...
for its devoted fan base and has been home to angry posts from celebrities like Taylor Swift. It angered many users in 2018 when it banned porn and "adult content," which made up a big part of its highly visual and meme-friendly online presence and led to a large drop in its user ...