Well, I blew it again.  I did start on the animation list a couple of weeks ago, but there were 27 (!) eligible films, and that is a LOT to research, even if just superficially.

I did start, though.  I'd already selected my guesses for nomination: Zootopia, The Little Prince, Moana, Finding Dory, and Kubo and the Two Strings.  Here are the films ( Read more... )

This morning saw the 2015 Oscar nominees announced.  I was completely unprepared, and I hadn't even collected the list of animated films for the year, let alone analyze any of them ( Read more... )

Well, the Golden Globes were last night, and the Oscar nominations are revealed on Thursday. If I'm going to do this annual review of animated movies, I best get it done ( Read more... )

I wrote most of this before Christmas, then forgot to update it and publish it before this morning. So, behind the cut:

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Early early early Friday morning, two lines of thunderstorms rolled though the Metro.  Both of them woke me up, but as I am getting to be a lighter and fussier sleeper these days, that is hardly a surprise.  The storms were noisy, and I really wasn't surprised that one of the storms knocked out the power.  Don't know which one, and I really didn't ( Read more... )

I got a smartphone a bit over a year ago.  It has an e-reader on it, and I like it lots.  However, it is small, and the battery life sucks.  While I have been mostly happy with it, I think I will be swapping phones once Verizon offers an upgrade ( Read more... )

Let's see how I did:

Brave (duh!)
Wreck-it Ralph (yay!)
Frankenweenie (on my alternate list, but not a surprise)
ParaNormal (yup)
Pirates!  Band of Misfits (...the hell ( Read more... )

It's time for the 2012 Animated Film Oscar evaluation.  This year, twenty-one films are eligible to be nominated for one of five slots available.  I've seen four of them. All in all, 2012 was a much stronger year for animated films than 2011.  So, let's break it down.

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Velvet likes to stick her head into containers - bags, baskets, boxes, whatever.  Why?  She's a cat ( Read more... )

An acquaintance of mine from Fest, a diligent playtron and stunning cross-dresser, was diagnosed with cancer two weeks prior to the end of Fest.  It's a lung cancer of the lymphoma variety and at stage four (he also had pneumonia, but given the cancer, almost secondary).  The doctors found it had already spread to other organs, his bones, and his ( Read more... )