Over a tasty plate of pad thai at Tuk Tuk, I had a heart-to-heart with Kathie Reiner before all this COVID stuff came down over us like a wet blanket. Kathie’s the lady who’s been helping me with this blog for years. “Spencer,” she said in her...
…through The Valley of Elah Well, I went and did it again. That is, I put a film on my Netflix queue without any idea of what it was really about. But I got lucky this time with In The Valley of Elah. Based on actual events, it stars Tommy Lee Jones and...
A hole in our heads? Or our hearts? Why they call it Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus entirely escapes me. There’s nothing normal about it. For obvious reasons, however, the condition’s name has been shortened to its initials: NPH. The cause of the...
Only to be cast on the funeral pyre As often is the case, I’m not quite sure how I came to have Netflix send me the 1927 German film, Metropolis. But it finally moved to the top of my queue the other day and showed up in the mail box. Directed by Fritz Lang,...
And slightly less unquiet minds Steve Kinsky’s an old friend. We first met when we were both in a professional organization for health insurance agents. We’ve stayed in touch since we retired. We’re both widely read, although our tastes sometimes...