It feels weird that considering approximately ten percent of my cast in Rhapsodies is Irish I’ve yet to do anything with St. Patrick’s day. I’ve rarely gotten into St. Patrick’s day mostly since I have some not so fond memories of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Been a while since I’ve seen a reason to crow about my biking regimen, but today I’m proud to say that I broke my record two times in a row this week and the new time to beat is 33[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s rhapsody we have Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek‘s Third Rhapsody
This week I decided to go with fifties science fiction… one was a classic and one… not so much. The first on my list, the classic, This Island Earth, was a film I’d known about for years and despite my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s Rhapsody is Rhapsody for Euphonium by James Curnow
Most of what made April Fools Day fun I outgrew by high school and other than being amused by a few news stories on how people fell for certain pranks (that time all my fellow Rhode Islanders started hoarding spaghetti[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I decided to do something new. Two movies based on the same source material. The book in question is “The Hunter” the first of Donald E. Westlake’s “Parker” novels, written under the penname Richard Stark. Parker,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a very bad April Fools day with two “pranks” pulled on me. One involving a cop explaining to me in no uncertain terms that stop signs exist before six 0’clock even when there are no cars on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well the first episode of season five of A Game of Thrones has finally arrived and so far I’m very pleased. For the most part I’ve been avoiding most of the rumors about where they’re going with the plot this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I went with films with the same character in this case Raymond Chandle’sr classic hard boiled detective Phillip Marlowe. I confess I’d never read any of Chandler’s books or seen any of the movies in fact much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
