I really want to like the film Pleasantville. I have seen it several times, and it’s an incredibly arresting movie visually. The transition from black and white to color is gorgeous to look at – reminiscent, as many have observed – of that moment in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy opens the door and … Continue reading Sunday Special Edition: The Problem with Pleasantville, July 21st 2013
Category: Art and Literature
Story Time Sunday: a Grimm Brothers Reboot July 14th 2013 (for grown ups only)
People, all I can say is: Do NOT fuck with the Virgin Mary I’m nice, I’m the mother of the J-man, who is God after all. But I just have to tell you – do NOT PISS ME OFF. I know when you are lying. I know when you are sleeping etc. Sort of like … Continue reading Story Time Sunday: a Grimm Brothers Reboot July 14th 2013 (for grown ups only)
Sunday night question: What do you do when you’re not that great? July 7th 2013
Dear Friends – I have just finished Nathan Englander’s most recent short story collection, THIS IS WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK, and it’s a brilliant, daring, rewarding, read. Englander is a master short story writer, by which I mean he can do things with the form, that make a short … Continue reading Sunday night question: What do you do when you’re not that great? July 7th 2013
tiny tuesday treat, July 2nd 2013
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose unless it isn’t and then it’s chicken salad, but you can eat that and smell the rose later.
story time sunday, a grimm brothers’ reboot, June 30th 2013
Dear friends -- Closing out June with a familiar story, with a slightly new angle..... I just wish someone would kill my boss. I wish someone would just throw him against a wall until his slimy guts pour out with whatever blood he’s got in his disgusting little body. Yeah, I love him that much. … Continue reading story time sunday, a grimm brothers’ reboot, June 30th 2013
magic things: a round up. Sunday, June 23rd 2013
dear friends -- the world is a weird, wacky, sometimes horrible, but also sometimes wondrous place. Take wood for example. A tree falls down, but then it turns out to be a rare and valuable tree, called a yew. A yew is both flexible and super-strong and you can make amazing archery bows out of … Continue reading magic things: a round up. Sunday, June 23rd 2013
Magically Real mini-break….
on a social media mini-break until June 19th... Enjoy the realtime magic in your life!
in praise of failure, being weird, and not giving up — Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom –Sunday special June 9th 2013
Dear friends -- sometimes being a quirky failure who survives ought to be enough. Personally, I come from a longish line of failures. My dad was a failure. A terrible one. So was my mom. My mom's mom didn't make it as a ballerina and taught dancing and French instead. My paternal grandfather's parents failed … Continue reading in praise of failure, being weird, and not giving up — Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom –Sunday special June 9th 2013
Story Time Sunday gallery edition: does the Happy Show make me happy? yes, no, and I’m not sure
I have a confession to make. I tend to resist all things Austrian because of a terrible set of experiences my husband L and I had in Vienna many years ago. As a result, I don't like Austrian food, and I don't like Austrian music. Hitler was Austrian, and that worries me. Although, Arthur Schnitzler … Continue reading Story Time Sunday gallery edition: does the Happy Show make me happy? yes, no, and I’m not sure
Story Time Sunday, May 26th — Kindness Fragments from the #1 and the #16
Sometimes the journey really is what matters, and the seemingly mundane trajectory is the most magical journey of all.... Here is a link to my first blog for Inlandia and the Riverside Press Enterprise. Thanks to my fellow travellers... Kindness Fragments
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 