Jul 25
Terror of Tiny Town (Part1). This is a pretty typical western except that everyone in it is a little person. I don’t find midgets funny in and of themselves. But the idea of a whole wild west town full of them is bizarre and interesting. How did Tiny Town come to be? Did the little …
Jun 11
Robert J. Sawyer tackles a blind teenage girl and . . . Wait a moment. Robert J. Sawyer’s new novel, Wake, is about a blind teenage girl and the internet. (As well as a sign-language using chimp and a disease outbreak in China.) It’s the first instalment of the www. trilogy; a series dealing …
May 24
My most recent review is up at Mooney on Theatre. It’s about Noel Coward’s “Waiting in the Wings.” Go read, enjoy and I promise to start posting more often here. What can I tell you? I’m a bit off my routine,
Mar 29
Though I haven’t retired, been fired or quit, it’s been a while since I reviewed anything. What can I tell you? I’ve been busy. But I finally had an evening open up and was able to attend an opera. While you’re waiting for a new Grumpy Owl post, you can read my review here.
Jan 07
The drunk punk rocker breaking bottles, the Molotov-throwing protester and the bespectacled theorist. These are the images that often come to mind when one thinks of anarchism. Yet they hardly tell the whole story. Mainly, they show anarchism at its worst; when it has been forced to enter in conflict with the state. They reflect …
Jan 03
I recently dashed off a review of Cromewell and Cruthers Shaving Oil for Geekigirl at I Want, I Got. I’m sometimes employed –without pay– to give my opinion. Sometimes I simply volunteer it. Either way, people rarely like it. I refuse to accept responsibility for anything that comes out of my brain, mouth or any …
Nov 22
I have a new review up at Mooney on Theatre. As usual, Ms. Mooney has wisely edited it for cruelty but not so much that my point is lost or that you good people, The Grumpy Owl readership, will find your cultural bloodlust unsatisfied. Working with her is a pleasant experience. I just hope this …
Oct 28
You can read my new theatre review here. In other news, I’ve had a really shitty two days. Nothing all that bad has happened but every little thing I’ve done has gone totally off the rails. I try to unlock something, the key breaks; I try to close the restaurant, two men threaten me with …
Oct 16
You can read my first review for “Mooney on Theatre” here. It was for a play called “FIBBER” and, I should warn you, dear readers, that it was edited for cruelty. Some of my more scathing remarks were removed. Apparently, attacking the playwright’s family is out of bounds. Who knew? In some cases, I certainly …
Oct 13
I am now engaged in that most ungentlemanly of pursuits. Not stockbroking, lawyering or even doctoring but, just as bad, theatre criticism. Holding this job is almost enough to have one banned from Lucius Beebe’s club, “Coffee House” where the credo is: “No brokers or bankers and perhaps no drama critics. No card playing. The …
