We’re in Duluth/Superior for a librarians conference, the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium, held Friday June 1. It was the first one and it was a pretty good library conference. Some good sessions, good keynoter, and ubiquitous wifi because it was held at a Community College. And that also meant that there was a never ending […]
Mark’s out for a walk, and Al is at work, so Joëlle & I had creamed spinach and leftover rice for dinner. The rice was cooked in coconut milk and homemade veggie broth – I made it to go with the Thai vegetable curry a few nights ago. I went to the doc this afternoon […]
First movie of the day Saturday – 1920s gangsters, but played by kids, so the tommy guns shoot whipped cream and the cars are all pedal cars. Jodie Foster & Scott Baio are the two biggest stars. It’s got a reputation as a great comedy, but there’s something off putting about kids in those roles […]
On Wednesday, we went to Ian’s Pizza and had a couple slices and split a salad between movies – I had a potato, cheese & ranch dressing slice that was really good, and a feta, spinach and tomato that was less so – somehow the spinach had an old taste. There were two women interviewing […]
The first film of the Fest for us, about an Algerian refugee who has washed up in Quebec. He takes over as the teacher for a class at an elementary school – their teacher committed suicide by hanging herself in the classroom, where one of the kids found her. All the kids in the class […]
Looks like my Johnny Depp tag is getting too small, so thought I better do a Johnny post. I am allowed to think Johnny’s cute, because he looks like my older son. I am looking forward to the movie version of Dark Shadows. The original was on afternoon TV when I was in grade school. […]
While we were sitting eating this lasagna – prepared from the recipe on the Barilla no-cook lasagna noodles box – we were trying to remember what film fest movies we’d seen when. I’d written what we’d gone to in 2010 and 2009 and 2008 and even 2006, although that year, I just mentioned seeing I […]
While my brother was watching bicycle-related movies out in Portland, even one that he and his wife & daughter made, we were busy watching indie films here at the Wisconsin Film Fest. We started with Art of the Steal, about the Barnes Collection. It was a well-made, trying hard to be fair documentary, but its […]