The August 2009 Archive

*The Beauty and the Geek

For a few years now, I have been spending a lot of time thinking how great it must be to be so good looking that you don’t need to have a personality. Naturally, this idea had occurred to me before, but it was a real-life encounter with a genuine beauty that unequivocally brought the truth […]

*In Praise of the Beat of Just One Drum

If there’s one thing that gets me down, it’s when television shows decide to mix things up a bit by doing something different, such as filming episodes in an exotic location. My spirits have always plummeted when I’ve tuned in for some relaxing viewing, only to find that the cast of The Facts of Life, […]