Author: marylowd

After the eight-year-old went to bed last night, we watched the ’92 Candyman. It was quite the journey. The more I think about it, the more it feels like it influenced the The X-Files, which started the following year. Helen has such a strong Scully vibe.

Maybe it’s just that the first X-Files I really watched was the ’98 movie, but the rampant bees really feel like a strong connection between it and Candyman. Continue reading “Watching Candyman”

Over the years, I’ve collected quite a few items that can be thrown together for Halloween costumes. Two of my favorites are a headband with giraffe ossicones & a Luna moth wing cape. As such, when I go to pick pieces to wear for a costume… I keep ending up as a giraffe-moth.

Restraining myself from saying, “Mm, those plastic clacking drums really add to this classic song,” as my kids play Beatles Rockband.

It’s kinda infuriating that in Angel S3E6 (the show’s take on “The Screwfly Solution”) Fred has to do the emotional work of comforting Wesley about him having tried to savagely murder her.

I guess the episode is only anti-misogyny to a point. Then men’s feelings take precedence.

My kindle app just informed me that I’m on a reading streak — “You’ve read 173 weeks in a row!” — which mostly just tells me how long I’ve had the kindle app for, as it’s leaving out all the other weeks since I learned to read before that.

There is something so deeply and profoundly depressing about the central premise of Buffy being that she’s constantly saving lives and protecting people… and everyone around her knows that and claims to want to help her… but she still needs a day job to support her sister. Continue reading “Buffy & Capitalism”

When I was a kid, I saw Bambi in the theater.

Two girls in the row in front of me had plastic Bambi & Thumper toys arranged on the arms of their seats.

I remember this vividly, more than thirty years later, because they were possibly the most beautiful things I’d ever seen… Continue reading “Bambi and Thumper”

Star Trek Lower Decks = Star Trek X Star Trek

Star Trek Prodigy = Star Trek X Star Wars

Either way, you’re dealing with an intensely high proof version of something I love.

(can’t promise no SPOILERS for pilot episode)

First thoughts: this is absolutely the MOST Star Warsy Star Trek I’ve ever seen. Shave off a few words, swells of music, the title, and reshape the ship, and I absolutely would guess it’s Star Wars. Continue reading “STAR TREK PRODIGY!!!!!!!”

OH MY GOD, Boralus has a hedge maze. I LOVE hedge mazes… conceptually. I wanted to grow one as a child. Practically, I don’t have flying yet and am stuck inside a hedge maze.

I hadn’t realized that Boralus could get even worse. It has turned my beloved hedge mazes against me.