Kottke posted a link yesterday to photos of people just before and just after they died. It reminded me of a documentary I watched the other night from PBS’ P.O.V. series called A Family Undertaking, about the growing home funeral movement.
After the civil war, American funerals moved out of the home and largely into […]

After watching Alien Saturday afternoon Alana and I decided 80s and early 90s action classics are sorely missing from our DVD library. We decided to brave The Exchange last night (and I do mean brave, the last few times we were there employees had to oust rowdy/violent clientele) and see what we could find.
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This movie has been sitting at the bottom of my Netflix queue for a year now, but my interest was piqued by last week’s discussion. It’s a fairly straightforward two and a half hour documentary about the life of Ayn Rand. While it only touches briefly on her controversies it doesn’t quite ignore them altogether. […]