Attention Must Be Paid: Shirley Walker
Look, I’m not going to dispute that the Danny Elfman Batman score is iconic. In…
Gillianren
Gillianren is a forty-something bipolar woman living in the Pacific Northwest after growing up in Los Angeles County. She and her boyfriend have one son and one daughter, and she gave a daughter up for adoption. She fills her days by watching her local library system's DVD collection in alphabetical order, watching everything that looks interesting. She particularly enjoys pre-Code films, blaxploitation, and live-action Disney movies of the '60s and '70s. She has a Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/gillianren
Articles:
Disney Byways: MELODY TIME
The problem with package films is that they’re uneven. Yes, even Fantasia—it’s good, but it’s…
Rehabilitation From Harassment
One of the lessons we’re teaching my five-year-old is that “sorry” doesn’t fix everything. He…
Celebrating the Living: Loretta Swit
There are, for those of us who’ve watched a lot of the show, little markers…
Attention Must Be Paid: Drive-In Theatres
Summer is ending, here in the Pacific Northwest. School has started; the leaves are changing…
Disney Byways: “Paperman”
As we walked out of Wreck-It Ralph, I said, “Well, the movie was pretty good,…
Why Is Snoop Dogg Teaching My Children About Computing?
In preparation for this, we went down a bit of a weird rabbit hole, my…
Stuff My Kids Watch: ANIMAL MECHANICALS and Other Repetitious Problem Solvers
I have to admit that of me thought about jumping on the current internet fascination…
Celebrating the Living: Alan Alda
He’s one of my earliest childhood crushes, of course. Hawkeye Pierce. I used to watch…
Attention Must Be Paid: Gypsy Rose Lee
As a child, she literally didn’t know how old she was; her mother had a…