I'm still waiting to watch Easy A, but only because I haven't found the exact right moment of "I have two hours to kill and I want my mind to shut off entirely so, yes, I will let this movie that is far too young for me just wash over me and wipe everything away." I'm looking forward to it though, because who doesn't want to watch a movie about a girl taking charge of her slutty reputation in the judgmental halls of America's high schools? (NO, WHO DOESN'T?) Now, from Nicole Kassell, who made The Woodsman which was about how you can't go home again after you've been a [...]

Why do people like to kill other people so much in America? (Which, much like Cardiff, is the stabbingest and shootingest place in the better parts of the world, except, unlike Cardiff, America is actually in one of the better places in the world.) And we mean besides the obvious reasons, such as being surrounded by bad smells and dirty looks and not enough parking spaces and hating other races and stuff. In a look this week at historian's attempts to make sense of our murder rate, some ideas are tried on and discarded: "The homicide rate appears to correlate with Presidential approval ratings. If [American Murder author Randolph] [...]

God, you guys, it is like, sooo windy out. Have you seen this wind business? What is up with that? It came in the window of the office and scattered around all the trash even! Is it going to do one of those things where it's like really nice out and then it's all windy and then it's cold, way colder than your outfit is prepared for? I sure hope not. Does anyone have an expert opinion on this, that could fill me in, about what will happen? Because, boy is it ever windy!