Take This Thing Back to Baltimore

2014-11-27           Living under / a rock                 'Quick thinking' the pastoral type says it better to Michael Palin's character Dennis in Terry Guillam's Jabberwocky , 'but not quick enough to save / your skin.'   What it is - as far as this reviewer is cincerned before / during / after this third viewing of the film - is that your man Dennis, a Middle Ages simpleton, heads off to the local village, before during and after being renounced by his own Da and falling in love with the local town bike, to seek his fame / and fortune.                 This being a Terry Guillam - of Monty Python's Flying Circus fame, for those who live under / a rock - movie, societal mores and habits of the time are mercilessly mocked, even as they are celebrated, 'beware' the street beggar says...

2014-11-26                                           'If I could just say a few words' Homer J. Simpson says it better during one of / his episodes on one of / the episodes of The Simpsons , 'I'd be a better / public speaker.'   Though far be it from Cin to cinterpret what comes out of your man Homer's mouth, the two do share more than a few / characteristics - not least of which the is the tendency towards / episodes - and what Cin thinks that Homer might mean is that less / is more, aka if he could say fewer but choicer words, he'd be a better public / speaker, saying fewer but choicer words to be a better public / speaker is all / we gots.                 Yes people it's a Cin within / the Cubicles episode / edition of this ...

2014-11-21              sha-sha ®edemption                                      It would break up the trip home / he said, it would put a dent in his endless week-end and loneliness / he said.   It was important to go on a matter of principle / he said, to the International Film Festival taking place right / in his backyard.   And he was right on all three counts, but boy when his Crackberry started buzzing as is its wont to cindicate 21 hundred hours, right at the end of the Finnish film that he was just after finnish-ing haha videeing, the buzzing could not have come / too soon.                 'Your excellency' the programming director of the festival said it better by ...