I have at least one friend who doesn’t believe love lasts, and that marriage is a mistake, a point often emphasized with reference to changing someone’s diapers.

I offer, as possible evidence that it does, the following anecdote.

My grandfather, 83, asleep on the couch, snoring loudly.

My grandmother, 80, married to him since she was 19, lightly [...]

A VERY short film by LYT

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Several decades celebrated tonight. My grandmother is 80, uncle Mick is 60, uncle Pat (offpat) is 50, and cousin Edmund is 20. We like to throw family bashes in style.

I mentioned it was at a Resident Evil style mansion retrofitted with modern elevators, and possibly a hidden germ warfare/zombie lab. There was also a heated [...]

The hotel everyone is staying at is like the house from the first Resident Evil video game. Huge, gothic, and with all kinds of hidden “backstage” areas, plus a large greenhouse out front that undoubtedly conceals a killer plant of some kind.

I’m staying at Lucy and Steve’s…ALONE! L&S decided to do the hotel too, and [...]

Some New York critic named Anthony Kaufman and his readers are trying to tear me a new one. Not very well, but it’s still the most vocal response I’ve ever gotten on any other site, ever.

Go check it out and let him know if you agree or disagree.

“Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is — and isn’t — an adaptation of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. The novel, described by Coogan in the film itself as “a postmodern classic written before there was any modern to be post about,” is highly acclaimed but very seldom read [...]

LYT in NYC, babay!

http://villagevoice.com/film/0608,thompson,72279,20.html

NOTE: I’ll post a longer review of Running Scared momentarily.

I’ve barely had time to pause and assess on this trip so far. But here are a few things that have been happening.

Almost as soon as I got to the UK, I headed to Paris to see my brothers & stepmom. The appeal is more of the seeing family variety than seeing Paris — I [...]

This one is 100% movie footage, I think. It has replaced the old one on the official site, here.

Getting from London to Paris and back is supposed to be easy. It isn’t always.

Having recently done my taxes and realized that a large chunk of change is going bye-bye, I nixed the relatively expensive Eurostar, and tried to find a flight deal online. This wasn’t too hard. Actually executing the transaction online, however — [...]