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Inside on a sunny Saturday afternoon, watching Queer Chinese Films

This afternoon I could have been outside enjoying, what is turning out to be, a spectacular spring, but I didn’t.

Instead I was inside watching two queer, documentary, Chinese films, New Beijing New Marriage and Our Story – 10 years “guerrilla warfare” of the Beijing Queer Film Festival, plus a preview of Mama Rainbow. Joining […]

Do you remember a trippy movie about a boy, a witch and pancakes?

I do – it is a film I associate with wintertime, when, after eating lunch, it was too cold and/or snowing to go out on the playground.

On such days, instead of being pushed outside, and out of our teacher’s hair, we were herded into the school gym, where a screen would be set up […]

My First World Problem: This week is too busy, socially speaking

My calendar this week:

Monday: I went to the movies with a colleague. This was planned about a month and a half ago – we went to see The Help.

Tuesday: Christmas party for my department.

Wednesday: Book club meeting (discussing The Help).

Thursday: Christmas party for the group where I am physically located, but […]

A Tale of Two Films: One Good Bad and One Bad Bad.

My last evening in Indianapolis was with friends and two movies: You Should Meet My Son! And MILF.

The first I found on Amazon.com by pure chance, and after watching the trailer, I decided to buy. The second was streamed over Netflix, and was listed both as a comedy and a drama.

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I’m hosting movie night Wednesday: Office Space

Things I’ve done in preparation for hosting movie night:

Vacuumed apartment. Washed windows in living room. Dusted furniture in living room. Scrubbed bathtub (more for me), declogged drain (more for me). Scrubbed sink. Cleaned bathroom floor. Hung decorative (and awesome) potholders in kitchen, along with cute tea towel. Hung clock in kitchen (need to buy […]

I’m my own worst enemy, when it comes to scheduling myself.

Half of the challenge the last couple of months has been the fact that whenever I have free time—that is to say, evenings and weekends, I have foolishly overbooked myself.

Honestly, I like coming home at the end of the day, cooking dinner, eating dinner, and then relaxing for an hour or two before crawling […]

A Mismash of Many Things!

I’ve had a pretty busy week – Actually it’s been a fantastic week.

I can only think of two “negative” things: First, I banged my leg into a table Tuesday evening –pretty hard—it took me 2 minutes of cursing before I could move again—and it hurt enough to noticeably bother me through Friday. It’s still […]

Tonight’s Supper: Sweet Potato Soup

Final product shared with Snooker in Berlin whilst enjoying Love Actually.

37 Degrees and I found a fountain.

Looking Up

When I realized how hot and awful it was going to be today (it’s 37C/99F at 7pm), I made afternoon plans for hitting the movie theater and paying for two hours of air conditioning whilst receiving a free movie!

I picked “The Invention of Lying”, which was a charming and cute film.

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On Visiting Entzaubert at the Schwarzer Kanal Berlin

Awhile back, before moving to Berlin, Yelli at 50% of my DNA gave me the heads up for a queer film festival. I saved the email and promptly forgot about it until last Thursday when I read it, read the links, and realized that Entzaubert: Queer D.I.Y. International Film Festival began that evening.

Both Thursday […]