Is it a book review? A humor column? An artsy "how to"? No. It's just one of my pre-migraine days when everything is really agitating. And -- fabulous me! -- I'm bringing YOU along for the ride.
"Ah, what the heck," says Alex,"it's Brendan Fraser." Bernie and Sand lurch off with her to see "Journey to the Center of the Earth." It's a Jules Verne title, after all, and it certainly can't be any worse than Tom Cruise in "War of the Worlds.
California's Ceiling of Smoke in the Summer of 2008 leave Sand and Bernie two choices -- they must entertain themselves by going to the movies, or stay home and clean out filing cabinets. The animated film, "WALL-E," wins.
Almost every history student in high school could say that what they were taught was dry and seemed to have no point. Over this summer break, maybe history teachers ought to worry lest about the text book and think about teaching what really happened.
Unseasonably cold and wet weather on Memorial Day weekend drives Sand and Bernie to the movies as easily as record heat waves do -- this time to see "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
Not the infernal heat of high summer, but the unseasonable horrid winds of spring convince Bernie and Sand that it's in the best of public interest to go see "Iron Man," and report on the experience.
Tennyson wrote, "In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." The Academy of American Poets suggests that in spring, and specifically in April, you turn your fancy to poetry.
Founded in April of 2002, the <i>Piker Press</i> got its start with a tiny band of writers who, having giddily written their first full-length novels during National Novel Writing Month in November of 2001, found themselves eager to write more, but with no venue willing to take a chance on unknown, unpublished authors. What this has meant is that the Piker Press has had one goal from the very start: encouraging writers to keep on writing.
