Another small but choice crop of discoveries found moping around the Wide, Wide World of Bloggery:

Terminator: Salvation has gotten rave reviews from some unexpected quarters.  Seems that the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise has brought a famous, reclusive author out of his seclusion.  Seems J.D. Salinger has been a Terminator junkie ever since he [...]

Link farms.  That’s what posts like this are.  Links sewn in the fertile ground of the blogosphere in hopes they will sprout . . . what?   Other links to your blog?   More bloggy flavor on the likes of Digg and D.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s. or however you spell them?  In my cynical little heart,  in the blackest [...]

My friend Ibetolis has a cool thing going over at Film for the Soul. He’s counting down the 2000’s in film.  How it works is he takes a year and invites any and all to provide a write-up on a movie from that year.  He’s into the 2001’s at present, and a piece I published [...]

I don’t normally stray far from the movies, but I just had to comment on a tremendous loss to us here in Tuscaloosa, and to the music world in general. Internationally-known bluesman Willie King passed away last Sunday — Sunday week as we say around here — near his home in Old Memphis, Alabama.  Not [...]

So, I’m doing my usual pre-Oscar scramble — you know, trying to see as many nominees as I can (even though Fox told me not to) — and I’m doing worse than usual.  Looks like that unless a Landmark theater gets plopped down right next door to the Crimson Tide Laundromat on the Strip, I’ll [...]

The Daily Telegraph reports that the actors who played Latika and Salim early in the film, are living in conditions very much like those of their characters. [...]

Seems some in India are getting a mite testy now that Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” has finally opened there. [...]