My cleaning project began today at around 8:30 am and is only now ending.  I feel deeply satisfied by all this, believing it’s ideal re-aligning work for all this Fall has in store. Throughout the day, I have watched most of the third season of DAMAGES –– which is riveting –– while scrubbing the bath...

Let’s face it:  Seasons two of Damages was getting me down. William Hurt is a fine actor (obviously) but somehow his whole mid-life depressive thing is just such a downer, I couldn’t continue. And yet … there was enough going on that I decided to forgo several episodes and cut to the fina...

I got to bed later than I wanted, partially because of restlessness and partial because I couldn’t stop watching THE BIG LEBOWSKI yesterday.  I also watched SNATCH which I don’t think I’d ever seen all the way through before.  Two super-guy oriented movies –– which I loved –– chosen perha...