by Sasha Stone | Jul 30, 2013 | POETS, TO WRITE
Almost There by Timothy Liu Hard to imagine getting anywhere near another semi- nude encounter down this concrete slab of interstate, the two of us all thumbs— white-throated swifts mating mid-flight instead of buckets of crispy wings thrown down hoi polloi— an army...
by Sasha Stone | May 12, 2012 | Blog 'em and Weep, TO BITCH
I was so disgusted when I saw the cover of TIME – meant only to shock and provoke – that it has brought me out of my semi-retirement from this blog. Boy, kind of thought this was a thing of the past, but lo! Our grotesque patriarchal society is alive and...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 29, 2010 | FAMILY, Movies
I grew up in California. I was a movie kid. That means, at some point during my young life I checked out of the normal world and folded into the cinematic one. Part of this was due to our moving around a lot — between fourth and sixth grade we moved to five...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 22, 2010 | FAMILY, FILM, WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
When did the message stop being, “it’s not whether you win or lose it’s how you play the game” and turn into “everybody’s a winner”? I’ll tell you when. When money started being the primary reason for making kids films...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 20, 2010 | FAMILY, Misc
A few weeks ago, I went camping with two twelve year-old girls and my old friend Robert (who has no kids). It was a fun trip but had shades of those fight scenes in Close Encounters, you know, the ones that motivate Richard Dreyfuss to finally leave the planet Earth?...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 11, 2010 | Blog 'em and Weep
I know that it is easy to get hysterical when a girl’s life is at stake. Indeed, many of us were worried that the 16 year-old Sunderland was put in harm’s way. There was even talk of child abuse charges for her parents. But of course, Abby is the second...
I spend way too much thinking about me.
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