Eggp > Recent Status Updates

20. Sex Appeal, 1 star. Gross rich guy gropes a child.
21. Teenage Punk, 2 stars. Birdwatching with your her son's best friend.
22. Step, 2 stars. Drunks watch a prize-fight.
23. Strays, 2 stars. Rehab in the desert ends with a bunch of dead dogs.
24. Grief, 2 stars. Constantly comforting her sister kind of ruins woman's vacation.
25. Bluebonnets, 3 stars. Writer with farm is an asshole, sleeps with him anyway.

Movie: "Soon a Hollywood movie company was coming, to make a science fiction film at the site. We would be able to work as extras and make some money. The movie was going to center around the radar disc and what it did to Angie Dickinson."

15. Good and Bad, 3 stars. Spoiled teenager does charity work.
16. Melina, 4 stars. Beautiful woman moves in the same musical social circles.
17. Friends, 3 stars. Befriending a needy elderly couple is a big time commitment.
18. Unmanageable, 2 stars. Drunk struggles to buys booze before her kids wake up.
19. Electric Car, El Paso, 2 stars. Stuck in a horrible car with old women.

10. Tiger Bites, 2 stars. Single mother decides not to get an abortion.
11. Emergency Room Notebook, 1977, 2 stars. Becoming callous about patients in the ER.
12. Temps Perdu, 3 stars. Woman reminisces over childhood puppy love.
13. Carpe Diem, 2 stars. Frazzled woman ruins a strangers laundry,and her own.
14. Toda Luna, Todo Año, 3 stars. Lonely widow vacations in Mexico, befriends some diving fishermen.

10. The Clerk's Tale, 3 stars. Sadistic bastard tortures his beautiful peasant wife to see if she'll still love him, pretends to murder her children.
11. The Merchant's Tale, 3 stars. Pervy old man marries a pretty young thing, gets cuckolded by his favorite squire.
12. The Squire's Tale, 3 stars. Tale of far off royalty receiving fantastical gifts from a mysterious knight is interrupted by a brown noser.

Word: "But it would only waste your time if I
Recounted every document and bond
By which she was enfeoffed of his land,
Or told you all about her rich array..."

1. To invest with a fief; to put (a person) in possession of the fee-simple or fee-tail of lands, tenements, etc.

2. To hand over as a fief; to surrender, give up entirely.

Wiki: "And these old widows, as God knows, are up
To as many tricks and dodges as Wade’s boat,
Can stir up so much trouble when they please,
That I could never live with one in peace."

Wiki: "Look, Grandam, there are your favourite Kirsch ones in the middle."

Wiki: "He has quite a collection, I believe, of Thorwaldsen’s statuary..."

06. El Tim, 3 stars. Smart but disruptive boy ruins Spanish class, teacher can't cope.
07. Point of View, 2 stars. Sad sack/deluded author is in love with her boss, can't wait to go back to work.
08. Her First Detox, 2 stars. Sneaky drunk wakes up in rehab after a car accident, wants everyone there to like her.
09. Phantom Pain, 3 stars. Daughter regularly visits her father with dementia in the nursing home.

Wiki: "He gets violent, so they have him in a Posey day and night."

Wiki: "Uncle John always had bits of Sen-Sen stuck in his teeth, so he looked like one of their pumpkins, smiling."

Wiki: "A Cornish game hen. Stove Top stuffing and cranberry sauce. Creamed peas. A Forever Yours for dessert."

Wiki: "They wore open black shirts or V-neck sweaters with nothing under them, so that their crucifixes gleamed against their smooth brown chests … the crucifix of the pachuco, which was also tattooed on the back of their hand."

01. Angel's Laundromat, 2 stars. Woman chit-chats with another regular at the laundromat.
02. Dr. H.A. Moynihan, 4 stars. Racist old dentist pulls out his own teeth.
03. Stars and Saints, 3 stars. Awkward protestant girl attends catholic school.
04. A Manual for Cleaning Women, 3 stars. Grieving woman works hard, misses her dead friend.
05. My Jockey, 3 stars. Woman comforts Spanish speakers in the emergency room.

07. The Wife of Bath's Tale, 3 stars. Horny old bat loves to make her husbands miserable, a rapey knight has to marry an ugly old woman to keep his promise.
08. The Friar's Tale, 3 stars. An evil summoner extorts desperate people over trumped up charges, makes nice with the devil.
09. The Summoner's Tale, 3 stars. Grubbing squire scams sick people out of money for prayers, earns an unexpected handful.

09. Around an empty grave. Son pumps his dying father for information about his unknown mother, gets sent to a village with nothing but a bad attitude and roaming hands.
10. What story down there awaits its end?. Man mentally eradicates everything he's annoyed with from reality, just wants to be left alone with his lady friend, no take backs.

07. In a network of lines that intersect. Kaleidoscope enthusiast becomes too involved in plots and counter plots, seems to have kidnapped himself.
08. On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon. Excessively horny student "accidentally" gets sexually involved with the wife and daughter of his professor, the whole family "accidentally" turns out to watch the show.

04. Without fear of wind or vertigo. There's a revolution on, two male friends fall under the influence (and body) of a pretty woman with a powerful personality.
05. Looks down in the gathering shadow. Couple tries to quietly dispose of a body, but inconvenient problems keep cropping up.
06. In a network of lines that enlace. Paranoid jogger is pursued by ringing telephones, decides to finally answer one.

01. If on a winter's night a traveller. Nervous man's illicit suitcase hand-off doesn't go as planned, still finds time to flirt.
02. Outside the town of Malbork. Family cooks together in kitchen, arranges a son exchange with another family to learn agricultural skills.
03. Leaning from the steep slope. Sickly man tries to work up the courage to chat to a pretty lady, unwittingly gets caught up in a prison break.

Word: "...having been sifted by four or five censorship committees and cut each time, modified, watered down, and finally published in a mutilated, edulcorated version, unrecognizable."

1. To sweeten, make sweet.

2. To free from harsh and acrid properties; to purify, soften.

3. To free from soluble particles by agitation or trituration in water, or by washing on a filter.

Wiki: "Believe you me, I set them so to work
That many a night I made them sing, “Alack!”
No flitch of bacon for them, anyhow,
Like some have won in Essex at Dunmow."

Wiki: "My aim is to reconstruct the museum assembled by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, author of Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1646) and inventor of the “polydyptic theater,” in which about sixty little mirrors lining the inside of a large box transform a bough into a forest, a lead soldier into an army, a booklet into a library."

Wiki: "...and in a clearing among the hornbeams nothing would be left of Jojo but a charred and fetid residue..."

Wiki: "...and also the gestures, the utensils that this person or that is handling — the meat pounder, the colander for the cress, the butter curler — so that each character already receives a first definition through this action or attribute..."

Word: "The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions — carelessness, approximation, imprecision, whether your own or others’."

1. Dependent on the throw of a die; hence, dependent on uncertain contingencies.

04. The Reeve's Tale, 3 stars. Miller blatantly steals from his clientele, students sleep with his wife and daughter in revenge.
05. The Cook's Tale, 2 stars. Incomplete story about a thieving playboy that gets fired for partying on the company's dime.
06. The Man of Law's Tale, 2 stars. Nice christian gal keeps getting shipped off to sea by pagan/infidel in-laws, becomes a one woman heathen converting machine.

Wiki: "Who fed Egyptian Mary in the cave
Or in the desert? None but Christ, be sure."

Wiki: "Virago! Semiramis the second!
You serpent hidden in the form of woman,
Like to the serpent fettered deep in hell!"

01. General Prologue, 3 stars. A motley group of pilgrims stop at a tavern, agree to take part in a tale telling contest for the prize of a free meal.
02. The Knight's Tale, 3 stars. Cousins fall in love with the same woman from afar, become bitter enemies out of jealousy.
03. The Miller's Tale, 4 stars. Jealous husband keeps a tight leash on his attractive young wife, lodger schemes a way to get her into bed.