I have an account over at Yelp, which is how I found Rutabegorz. It asks questions to help people get to know me (it’s like myspace for restaurants, instead of music). I regularly go in and change my answers. For example, one is, “What’s the most recent interesting book you’ve read?” to which my answer [...]

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I went to see this with a big group the other day; it was a movie that I really was interested in seeing (Ben Stiller notwithstanding) and my cousin worked on it (gooooooo BDogg!!!). It’s a great flick and I recommend it to everyone. But (and I wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t a but) [...]

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For my first day of downtime (no work and no school for at least a week and a half), the kiddos and I cozied to 670 minutes (not including bathroom breaks) of extended version Lord of the Rings. The kids have been bugging me about this for months, and I finally made good on my [...]

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I have finally seen an Inconvenient Truth. It is a lovely piece of propaganda and I encourage people to watch it. As with Fahrenheit 9/11, it will be unlikely to change the mind of anyone who doesn’t already believe in Global Warming (although I am plotting to give it to my parents for xmas, so [...]

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Last Friday was Friday the 13th. Friday, October 13th. You might expect the release of the latest incarnation of Freddy Krueger on this sort of date. I saw Jesus Camp, and I emerged filled with trepidation. I feared for the future of this world. And I’m not being hyperbolic. It’s the same sort of fear [...]

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Cathleen Falsani, religion reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times (who lost the close vote to Sam Harris in our book group choice), blogs her reaction to seeing the movie Jesus Camp. If you check it out (which you should), keep in mind that Falsani is an Evangelical Christian. I’m seriously considering seeing this movie in LA [...]

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I had my last meeting with my professor yesterday and handed in a stack of papers that were due. As a result, I’m completely manic today–I’m a total chatterbox, machine-gunning poor Jana with my opinions on all sort of things. I’ll subject you to a few of them here: My first act as a seasonally [...]

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I rarely watch movies, but this week’s pick is Dirty Pretty Things. I checked it out from the library because I’m a fan of Audrey Tautou’s (Am?©lie!), but so far I’m impressed with the entire cast. They play various members of the (illegal) immigrant underbelly of London–they come from Nigeria, Turkey, Somalia, Eastern Europe, China, [...]

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Last night we finally buckled down to watch Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ. I received the DVD from NetFlix weeks ago; every day for the past month it sat on the shelf, its red envelope a baleful reminder of the bloody spectacle that awaited me. Some friends offered to baby-sit at the last minute, and [...]

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Seeing Sin City made me decide, after months of defying Mormon cultural standards of cleancutedness, to get my hair chopped. WARNING! POSSIBLE SPOILERS! There. Got that out of the way. I rarely see movies in the theater–enough money goes into tickets these days (esp. when we take the whole family) that the potential excursion has [...]

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