Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Yes, I did see the new Star Wars movie, and yes, I liked it.? But I’d like to take a moment to talk about the other movie I saw recently, which didn’t get nearly as much media attention:? In the Heart of the Sea.? Jim Macdonald and I…
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So There I Was, Mousing Around the Internet….
…when I found a list that’s supposed to be the Ten Best Horror Movies of the Last Ten Years. And right there in the #1 slot, there’s a French movie, Inside. And here’s this Horror Movie Reviewer saying, I pride myself on never covering my eyes during horror movies–I’ve seen it all. Right? Well, IContinue reading “So There I Was, Mousing Around the Internet….”
Peeve of the (New Year’s) Day
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Regarding that common colloquial affirmative: People, it’s spelled either “okay” or “OK.”? It is not spelled “ok” in? lower-case.? “O.K.” with periods in it is defensible, but only just. My own preference, when I get a chance to enforce it, is for “okay.”? This is in part aesthetic,…
It’s the Longest Night of the Year
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Sunset’s at 4:03 PM (at least, it’ll be 4:03 at the local weather station I get my reports from), and by 4:30 it’ll be as black as the inside of a goat outdoors.? But we keep on keeping on, in the conviction that the sun will once again…
Peeve of the Day
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
I blame Star Trek. (The Original Series, of course. ST-TOS was the s-f show of my adolescence, and I imprinted on it hard. Next Gen was weak tea – Earl Grey, hot — by comparison.) The weapon of choice for Kirk and Spock and everybody else who was…
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