Some people are just too good for the world. They smile constantly, never show a bitter emotion, always have time to listen to someone else’s problems, always make an effort to be cordial and always want others to be as happy as them. To most of us, people like this can be quite an annoyance. Why is that? Are we, as a people, so wrapped up in our own little lively melodramas that we need to wallow, and can’t stand it when the rest of the world does not wallow with us? It’s not exactly a soup question, and I do not intend to answer it here. But just think about it. Read Post
I wasn’t going to review the wonderful new French film Tell No One this week because I didn’t think it would still be playing next week. Glancing through the paper today, I was delighted to see that our good friends at the Carousel Cinemas are holding it over for one more week. I am here to tell you now to go see this movie before it is gone. Or I will find you. And slap you. And tell you not to complain about Greensboro not getting good movies because you don’t go see them anyway. Seriously. Read Post
When I heard that Oliver Stone– director of JFK, Nixon, Wall Street– was going to make a film based on the life of George W. Bush while Bush was still in office, I was more than a little intrigued. I don’t like our current president. I used to. I actually voted for him in 2000, a mistake I didn’t repeat in ‘04. However I feel about the man on a day to day basis…I must admit to always being fascinated by him as a character. Read Post
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. This trio from Boston came into our kitchen with homegrown produce and organic chocolate and a willingness to help begin the restoration of our ad-hoc badminton court in the backyard. They’ve opened for the Avett Brothers and their album, “The Carpenter Bird” was listed by the Boston Globe as [...]
Back in the days, Joshua and I used to do what we called “work” at a pizza joint. Work usually consisted of running a pizza in the morning for breakfast, collecting cigarette boxes and 20 oz bottles of soda in our cars and when it was really slow Josh would bust out his Saxophone [...]
Here’s something I’ve been looking forward to for months. Thanks in large part to our neighbor Heather and the kind staff of the Weatherspoon Art Museum we gained access to the inner workings of the art installation process and were able to interview Leo in our kitchen.
This was a collaborative effort as part of our [...]
Two songs just aren’t enough. They came to our kitchen, braved the cold and the drizzle in the back yard and ate Indian food with us before returning to Brooklyn, NY. Fear not, they’ll be returning to Greensboro on March 13th as part of our Monkeywhale presents series …
Many thanks to Jocelyn, Emily and Jeremy [...]
For the past 2 years monkeywhale and our kind neighbors have thrown a Halloween party. Nothing fancy. A couple of gazebos, a keg, strings of lights across the lawn and a few lanterns. We also project films on the barn that have fallen into the public domain … like, Nosferatu for instance. Creepy and a [...]
An Apache Relay is the pre-colonial version of a courier system. Chiefs would compete against each other to see who could have a message delivered in the shortest amount of time. A Relay of 8 scouts could hand a message over a quarter of a mile in 3 minutes. Apparently. Just imagine if they [...]
