How I Spent My Birthday
My birthday was on a Wednesday this year, which meant that no one was free to do anything with me …
Category Archives: Celebrations
40 Years
Today is my mom and dad’s 40th wedding anniversary. In celebration, I am providing a link to “their song,” even …
Ebertfest, SIFF, and My Two Year Anniversary
I know many of you (some of you?) are still waiting for the rest of my blog posts from Ebertfest. …
On Turning Thirty (Notes from the Diary of a Literary Rebel)
Many of my friends are turning thirty this year. Since today is my birthday (born 12:46 pm CT time), I thought it’d be a good time to look back at what I wrote on approaching that milestone two years ago.
An Afternoon With Charlie Chaplin
Saturday was Charlie Chaplin’s birthday, and what better way to celebrate than by watching a Chaplin film? Well, how about watching a double feature in a movie theater, the way Chaplin’s films were seen when they first appeared? SIFF Cinema has been showing his films in a series entitled “Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve”: The Films of Charlie Chaplin.
