by Alica McKenna Johnson | Dec 19, 2011 | Music and Musings Monday
Do you ever feel like the gifts you’re given are more of a passive aggressive snub then a present? Of course there’s the fattening rich food when everyone knows you’re dieting. The heavily perfumed soaps and lotions with a note, “So you’ll smell sweet all the...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Dec 16, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
3 Idiots was recommended to me by another Bollywood fan. This is a hysterical movie. Two friends go on a journey to find a third friend from college. The majority of the movie is done in flash backs of their college days. Two of the friends are straitlaced, trying...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Dec 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m sorry but the holiday’s have won- I’m behind in reading blogs, tweets, and FB- I’m behind in posting, but I have knitted a bunch, made three batches of caramels, and spent way too much money on gifts- one of them is for ME! Anyway I wanted...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Dec 9, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
Attack the Block This film is what I mean when I talk about adding diversity without making it the focal point in your work. Attack the Block takes place in a London slum run by a drug gang. The main characters are black teenagers whose best option is getting in good...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Dec 7, 2011 | Uncategorized, Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
During yoga I had a piph today, not a full blown epiphany, just a small flash of insight into my life: a piph. As I was attempting to put my left foot by my right hip, cross my right leg over my left, then hug my knee and turn twisting to the left I had to stop. I...
