Category: Uncategorized

Three for sale in my Etsy shop… …and four directly from my sketchbook:

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962) – Exactly what it says on the tin. Zatoichi, the blind wandering masseur/swordsman, is called upon to give a massage to a lord who’s apparently loony with early-onset dementia; then, so that Zatoichi won’t spill the beans about their master’s condition, the retainers pay to have him killed.  Plus…

Listening (1994) – A very worthwhile SF drama.  Two broke grad students work on computerized mind-reading technology in the garage with equipment “borrowed” from the university.  One backburners his wife and daughter for Science; the other lives in a studio apartment with his sick grandmother and pilfers other things to get by.  When a third…

(Missed a day because I was out of town Friday to Saturday.)

Meri Pyaari Bindu (2017) – A bestselling writer of pulp horror novels (I like him already!) has been trying for three years to write a romance, based on his own decades-long relationship with the girl next door.  He finally moves home and rediscovers an old mixtape that he and she had made, and while listening…

Nightworld (2017) – I’m always a sucker for intriguing, mysterious premise: In this case, former police officer Brett is hired to watch the surveillance cameras somewhere behind the sealed door in the basement of an historic Bulgarian apartment building. What’s he supposed to look for? Anything. What’s he supposed to do? Call this number. Any…

My “commute” was a full ten minutes.  Normally I just listened to the radio, but I’d left a book-on-tape playing last night, and just let it keep rolling through the commute.  Finally, in the left turn lane into the parking lot, the audiobook hit a stopping spot and I turned it off, allowing the radio…