I love being generous for selfish reasons. There is a warm feeling in your heart when you can make someone else happy, with either gifts or the items they need. Seeing my friends and family in pain can be hard, and goodness knows this year has been tough enough as it is. We all want something better than what we have now.
My flaw is I want to give too much. It’s my way of coping with the world, how cruel things are. My belief is that kindness never hurts. Yet sometimes people don’t need what you can give, and…
Beast Boy is one of the few characters who is vegetarian in animated media. Or at least he was in 2003 when the first Teen Titans show premiered. During an argument about what pizza toppings to get, Beast Boy explains he doesn’t eat meat because he’s been most of the animals that would go on the plate. He has been a chicken, and presumably a bull when fighting supervillains. Training would also involve him shapeshifting into various ones.
Not everyone liked Beast Boy. The adults reviewing saw him as forced comic relief, at least on the World’s Finest website. I…
We saw a movie that had been lingering in our DVD case a few weeks ago. Rather, we watched the first few minutes before everyone was too tired, though the rest is still vivid from our first watch. I considered how Cuba Gooding Jr. did his best with limited information, making for a strong role. That was Gifted Hands. That story came from a lie, however.
I’m never going to knock on the movie. It’s understandable that at the time, the producers didn’t know. Now, though, I can’t enjoy Gifted Hands.
The Ben Carson Image
Gifted Hands as a print book and a movie…
One of my biggest regrets as a kid is not pushing to attend art school or music programs for the summer or for college. I did go to music camp as a preteen, but that wasn’t exactly the same and my violin skills were definitely not up to par for professional performance. University music majors intimidated me in college though the orchestra was fun and the conductor a great guy. I did sing in the choir and know how to play violin from various private lessons, but I didn’t want to turn either into a career. It’s always vicarious, then…
It is game day! Or it was at least, on Sunday. It was certainly quite a day on the field, though some friends think that Team Fluff was robbed. People seemed to agree on one thing: they were not interested in Superbowl as much.
My brother and I were doing our best to accommodate each other’s needs. Normally, I would be finding a television downstairs to snatch bits of Puppy Bowl while he prepared for the main game. Not today; at various times when the game was on break, I’d switch to Puppy Bowl as well as its reruns, and…
The news in 2021 just keeps getting harder and harder when you learn who has died and who has lived. It’s not even springtime yet. Chris Plummer has died. He was in his 90s, and perhaps it was a time in coming, but it’d be nice if this year eased up on the celebrity deaths of people who positive impacted our lives.
I know Plummer from three roles: as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. Charles Muntz in Up, and Harlan Thrombey in Knives Out. He was a versatile actor who knew how to add tragedy to villains…
Before you all toss your laptops or phones into the wall, let me make my case. My brother and I got into watching Community, the sitcom about a study group’s antics at a Greendale community college, with the lead going from a manipulative lawyer to a compassionate hero. His friends become better people as well. They rise past their flaws with style. And sometimes they regress.
Season four was the only one without Dan Harmon, owing to him sexually harassing a crew member. (This was before the MeToo movement, by the way, and as far as we know Dan Harmon…
This will be a new experiment for me, covering multiple books in one review. Normally I would do one story at a time, to allow for an ideal analysis, but these are picture books. Some of these had ample stories and themes that a person could discuss comfortably. Others were a little shorter, and I wanted to make sure that I did justice for each one.
Picture books are great when you are starting to read, or sharing the joy with someone you love. I remember reading some with dogs, and others with pigs that convinced neighbors of a town…
We’re in the last third of season one, which starts cranking up the emotions. This episode dives into some character development for Amity and Willow, as we get flashbacks to their friendship, and what ended it. Luz of course gets involved to try and mend ties, as well as her new friend’s mind.
“Confronting trauma” is the theme of this episode. Willow has a lot of baggage thanks to the estrangement and Amity’s insecurities guide her more abrasive actions. Luz helps them find the source of their troubles, fixing her mistake when meddling erases Willow’s mind.
Understanding Willow
Boscha is trying out…
I didn’t expect that I’d be doing a reading of a Disney AU book, that the company had released. Obviously, it grabbed my attention when I saw that it was compared to Goosebumps, one of the books that I loved a lot as a kid. It also mentioned that Ursula, the sea witch from The Little Mermaid, had made a deal with the protagonist.
Preposterous, I thought. And yet I clicked to find out more information about the series. The library had the books with Dr. Facilier and Captain Hook and punny titles related to the songs in each movie…
Priya Sridhar
A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting.
