Today's offering, an Icelandic 3-D CGI kids' film, Legends of Valhalla:Thor, was a charming little diversion ( Read more... )

Yes, it's that time of year again. My first film was a Polish costume drama called Daas.

This was an odd film. It's not really about its supposed subject, a Turkish-Polish Jew named Jacob Frank, who we today would recognize as a cult leader. The film is actually about two men who are drawn into Frank's orbit with disastrous consequences. It is not ( Read more... )

(sorry for the gap in posting; unemployment makes of a boring life IMHO, Ok, there's been a tremendous personal development, but that's another matter ( Read more... )

To my faithful readers (both of them):

No, I'm not dead. If you are dead, I'm sorry I missed you.

My unemployed life has been... sluggish. And my personal life, well, that's taken a positive turn, but that's another story.

I'm posting because I just got back from a free preview of The Rum Diary. While the film is good by itself, what I wish to ( Read more... )

I still don't have a job. I had an interview with a Major Local Foundation-Like Company that was looking for a cataloger. Seems they decided to look otherwhere ( Read more... )

Jobs Applied for: 4 ( Read more... )

Unemployment Day 5 - actually, it's one week ago today that I was shitcanned. Seems much longer.

Jobs Applied For - 1 (and it's a longshot)

But the highpoint of the day was managing to get two books (one a bookclub selection) I had my eye on for nothing at 3rd Place Books by trading in a bunch of books. I even managed to coins back. Sweet ( Read more... )

Jobs Applied for : 3 ( Read more... )

Yep, I got laid off on Friday. Panicked all weekend. Applied for UI. Still need to file for UI (will do so soon).

So:

Unemployment: Day 1
Jobs applied for: 6.
(would have been seven, but someone only gives out PDFs that can't be altered. grrr

Saw Green Lantern last night. The biggest surprise is that it didn't completely suck. Mind you, I have issues with it, mostly in casting, And I wish they'd concentrate on one area rather than another, but that's sort of what this is about ( Read more... )