That was the challenge last night on "Top Chef," which this post won't spoil, but there are spoilers at here , where I read about it. (I haven't watched this season of "Top Chef." Maybe I'll catch …
I love when summer ends. I love when it begins. Warmth is good, and all this unstructured time. But it's been too hot, and too many structureless days have melted into each other. So it feels good to get up at 5 a.m. and see …
My son, Christopher Althouse has made this List of the Great Movies. It's not my list, but I like a lot of these movies, and I think it's a good list: 1. Rashomon 2. 8 1/2 3. Intolerance 4. Persona 5. L’Avventura 6. The C…
I've switched to one of the new Blogger templates. This is called Minima. I hope it's subdued enough for you. It's aggressively mellow. Why it seemed better than the old template ("Tekka"): 1. Tekka had an i…
Tonya's talking about my profile: she hasn't read any of my favorite books and she hasn't seen any of my movies. She thinks I may even have made up a fake title in " Grave of the Fireflies ." And she thinks…