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Month: November 2006

  • Movie: Desert Hearts (1986)

    Well, I managed to avoid reviewing this for quite awhile! Hmm. I clearly remember one impression: if this wasn’t a love story between two women, it would be complete sap and I would never watch it. The lesbian angle, some good 80’s nostalgia, and a few steamy scenes kept me into it

  • Mt McConnel

    Back in Fort Collins, we shake off the holiday sloth and torpor for an outing to Mount McConnel. It’s one of those hikes that always makes you work a little harder than you expect. The summit is cold but bathed in a golden afternoon light today. Finding a spot to pitch a tent for the…

  • Indian Hills Thanksgiving

    The cast at Dad & Sarah’s this year includes Grandma Zita, Tanti Bertie, Jezze, Sarah’s son Adrian and his dog Jasmine. The usual fare was preceded, at Adrian’s request, by an appetizer of giant prawns and scallops that made a delectable meal in itself. No one had the wisdom to stop there, of course, and…

  • Movie: Winged Migration (2001)

    Even more astounding in many ways than March of the Penguins. This is a huge production that presents itself quietly, slipping you into the world of migrating birds in a surprisingly effective way. Like the penguin film, it also raises many more questions than it answers, and supplies a “making of” featurette to remedy this.…

  • Scrambling

    A day spent scrambling around on the rocks at Vedauwoo is never wasted. Doug and Liz join us on a cold morning while we’re still brewing our coffee, and wait patiently for us to get ourselves together for a hike. The snow makes rock scrambling a less certain affair, especially for Liz who is new…

  • Vedauwoo Overnight

    We miss sleeping outside, so we decide to see if we can acclimatize to the colder weather at Vedauwoo. Even in below freezing temperatures, this place always feels welcoming to me. We have a pleasant evening hike, followed by dinner under the stars. A couple of Leonids flash in the sky. It’s hard to keep…

  • Movie: The Watermelon Woman (1996)

    A low-budget indie lesbian film that, despite some stiff dialog in places, manages to keep an interesting story rolling and supplies some unexpected surprises.

  • Movie: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2006)

    As I’ve come to expect from documentaries on politically charged topics, especially when there’s a narrator telling you how to interpret what you’re seeing, there is plenty of spin going on in this. Even so, I found it worthwhile. Not being a TV watcher, I didn’t even know the faces of the key Enron players,…

  • Movie: The Squeeze (1978)

    For pure unadulterated, wah-infused 70’s style this flick is hard to beat. Beyond that, it’s a pretty standard heist story. Referred by Ted

  • Home Again

    Mile 2640. Pete drops me off back at the fifth wheel where we started, with plenty of time left for him to join Jess in Denver for a family dinner. For me the physical travel is done. Pete will get on a plane tomorrow and fly back to Chicago. It seems like we have covered…