June 2016

Somewhere in Texas, Will picks up his brother's corpse from the morgue, loads the coffin into his refrigerated van, and hits the road. Eventually he crashes at the Salt Café, a run-down motel in the middle of nowhere. In this forsaken place...

Turns out my situation isn't totally hopeless ;-)) Scored 47% on the blog addiction test. So yeah, I'm addicted, but not catastrophically so. What about you? Want to know how deep you're in? Take the test.

We think we know everything about Marilyn Monroe: the actress, the woman, the sex symbol, the myth. Her films, her lovers, her husbands, her diva moments. But Michel Schneider found unexplored territory: Marilyn's relationship with her psychoanalyst...

I've been reading a bunch of novels about childhood lately, or narrated by kids. Here's a quick list: St. Urbain Street by Mordecai Richler, Biography of Hunger by Amélie Nothomb, The Child by various authors...

Had to happen eventually: this blog just turned one year old. A whole year already. Still don't have answers to these questions: why do I blog? What's the point of all this? Doesn't matter, I guess, because...

On an abandoned estate, two kids live with their father in complete isolation. The father is both God and master, holding all power and knowledge, laying down strict rules everyone must follow. The children...

Friday's game strikes again! Played, won, received books! Thanks Jos! This time: The Sleeping Agent by Fabrice Pliskin, Pornography of the Soul by Valérie Tordjman, Softly by Karine Reysset...

Gachucha invited me to share seven secrets about myself. More revelations? Thought I'd already spilled everything here and there. But maybe if I dig deep enough... My first name was carried by so many saints it appears...

Semianyki means family in Russian. And the family here is performed by Teatr Licedei, a Russian clown troupe. What a family! Completely unhinged, somewhere between Les Deschiens and pure chaos...

It's called Visual DNA and you can find it there.