03 Sep, 2018

Caution, this article may contain spoilers for Christopher Robin, proceed at your own risk. Three of my sisters were kind enough to take me to see Christopher Robin (2018) as a late birthday gift, it was a delightful film treated with the respect the material deserved. As a child my mother read to me the original Winnie the Pooh books, growing up I watched the films and television programs (among my favorite will always be a Very Merry Pooh Year). My family says I am very much like Rabbit,

23 Aug, 2018

This is the first in a series of stories I'm collecting about my mugs and how I got them, we hope you enjoy the first installment.     One of the first mugs to start my collection is a John Wayne mug (unsurprisingly), that I purchased from the John Wayne birthplace museum in Winterset Iowa. On one side of the mug are the handsome features of John Wayne, on the other is an apt quote from his film “McLintock!” (1963), “Don’t say it’s a fine morning or I’ll shoot ya.” The context of the quote is