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Alive and Thinking in Cyberspace: Pam's take on just about everything
I write, I sometimes say, because I can’t dance. Whatever wonderful bodily in-sync-ness, with the world, with a lover, with oneself that the best dancers have… I most emphatically do not have, except when it comes to words and sounds and sentences. That’s where I can dance, and (in the mysterious ways of desire) that’s [...]
… have a certain wonderful kind of gorgeousness about them, don’t you think? Or so my husband Michael has been telling me for decades — since way before 1989, when Kathryn Bigelow made Blue Steel. But there was eye (and mind) candy for all at the Oscars night before last. What about you? Comments welcome, [...]
Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? That’s from somewhere in John Keats’ letters, as quoted by biographer Walter Jackson Bate. And as I copied it out from Bate this morning, it occurred to me that certainly that’s one of [...]
Some neat things I did to celebrate the RITA nod were: – Got my shoes shined by Famous Wayne in front of the Hyatt Regency at the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Yes, Wayne really is as cool as he looks — even cooler in the pinstripes he sometimes wears. And the shine’s the best I’ve [...]
Well, there was Cate Blanchett, who was terrific as a Bob Dylan avatar in I’m Not There. Except why bother, given that Dylan himself was even more terrific when he delivered the same lines via documentary footage in Martin Scorcese’s riveting 2005 No Direction Home. Charlotte Gainsbourgh, as a Dylan’s wife avatar in I’m Not [...]
2007 was a good year for movies, wasn’t it? My favorite, I think, was The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Adapted from a true story of a stroke victim who was almost completely locked up in physical paralysis, in the words of New Yorker film critic David Denby, the movie’s ‘a gloriously unlocked experience, with [...]
Besides the big enchilada — San Francisco’s wonderful International Film Festival — we’ve also got Asian American, Latino, Arab, Gay and Lesbian, and Jewish Film Festivals in our city (and I’m sure I’ve missed a few). This year, Michael and I are seriously doing the Asian American one, seeing six films that we’ve never heard [...]
It took me thirty-two minutes and thirty-seven seconds to finish the New York Times crossword puzzle today. Which really isn’t bad for a Friday. The puzzles get increasingly difficult between Monday and Saturday, you see. I don’t know how the more famous Sunday one compares in difficulty; I don’t think most Times crossword lovers care [...]
A great witty, brainy web site that I never heard of before, called www.janesguide.com gave me a wonderful, blush-making write-up today, linking to my site and even mentioning this blog — which is my first clue ever that anybody has actually read it. Hooray and thanks so much, especially to Vamp, who wrote the blurb, [...]
Brokeback Mountain, Munich. So many important movies to see and weigh in on — and if I don’t see the new Pride and Prejudice soon, I’ll have to seek help from the Romance Writers’ Protection Program. And now there’s the new Tristram Shandy, adapted from the strange 18th century novel about the inability of writing [...]
