Name: DrPat
Weblog: paperfrigate.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 398
First Published: Saturday, November 13, 2004
Last Published: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
DrPat is the blog signature used by an old coot who hoards books, dances Argentine Tango, cooks a mean venison chili, and is happy to be along for the sag while my spouse does a marathon bicycle ride. All that is in my spare time — and my work life is classified...Currently listing articles 398-351:
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Father's Day Shopping Suggestions— I asked four Dads my own Dad's age for their input on the best Father's Day Gifts. Their advice may surprise you.
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DVD Review: Hoodwinked— In the woods, something sinister creeps. If it isn't the wolf (and he claims it is not), who is stealing the recipes and putting all
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Book Review: The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau— The City is a rule-bound place. Lately, however, the lights have begun flickering.
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Book Review: The Secret Life of Dust by Hannah Holmes— Build stars from it. Water earth and entomb dinosaurs with it. Smoke it, eat it, drink it. Return to it at life's end.
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Movie Review: Over the Hedge— Expect no deep insights, no religious conflicts — just a delightful animated film that offers nothing but pleasure to its audience.
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Do You Really Need that Light On?— My father was an environmental visionary. (Who knew?)
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Getting into J. Craig Venter's Genes— "My genome is bigger than yours!" Venter's personal genome will be published as a reference databank this year. Where will this maverick researcher head next?
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Robson Green: From Wire in the Blood to Rocket Man— Robson Green is the man you want when you have a subtly-damaged, slightly-weird, very intelligent role to cast on BBC TV.
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Book Review: Dead Lines by Greg Bear— What if some of the things you see every day aren't real? In Hollywood, that's a normal feeling.
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Farewell Tom Corbett: A Space Cadet Departs the Earth— Frankie Thomas, dead at 85, departs for a further destination than any in his 1950s TV career.
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Next YEAR in the Bookstore: Numbers, Napa Valley and Not Being a Victim— Make a New Year's Resolution to include some of these publications on your reading list!
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Lateral Thinking Challenges— Some puzzles require you to think sidewise, not harder...
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Blogcritics Name the Best Books of 2005— Here they are - the books chosen as the best they read in 2005 by eleven selected BlogCritics. What was yours?
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Next Week in the Bookstore: No New Books?— It's holiday time in the publishing biz, too - so don't expect many brand-new books next week.
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Bestsellers: Patterson, Carter, Friedman, Grisham— ...
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Two Phils, a Miller and a Bill— It's quiet at the publishing houses, busy at the bookstores, as we move deeper into holiday shopping season.
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DVD Review: Madagascar Is Delightful— Taken as a whole, the movie is wonderful, the sum of a myriad small, sweet, funny, referential moments.
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Bestsellers: James Patterson and Frank McCourt Top Lists— Patterson's _Mary, Mary_ tops fiction sales this week, while McCourt's _Teacher Man_ takes top honors in non-fiction.
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Taxes, (Ono!), an Odd Koontz, and Paperback Blitz— Hint: Have Amazon deliver your gift book order to an alternate address to avoid a pre-Christmas unwrapping.
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Where Did November Go? NaNoWriMo Knows— For the last month, I've been living in Indigo, a small town, accompanying a rural sheriff named Art Whiddick...
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Pope John Paul, P.D. James and Paperback Pleasures— While drooling over December releases, I view deliberately-destroyed buildings in Las Vegas, or explore deeper meanings of Batman...
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Questions of Love for Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt and Alex Cross— There may be only four new books this week, but there's still plenty to generate excitement.
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Weekly BlogScan: Flu Shots and Fears— In the northern hemisphere, flu season is upon us. Eat healthy food, get exercise and a flu shot - and don't sleep with any poultry!
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Crow-Feast, Utter Bloody Rudeness, and Unnecessary Men— Tempting new books will be rather thin on the ground next week, as publishers focus on boxed collections for holiday gifting.
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Blogcritics on NaNoWriMo— BlogCritics are writing demons (or perhaps are ridden by them) — it should be no surprise that November sees lots of participation in NaNoWriMo...
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Ten Great Halloween DVDs— Psycho's great, and so is Halloween, of course. But how about a little more "cerebral" fare?
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Rice's Christ, Piazza's Elvis, and a Holiday Princess— Anne Rice's genre-breaking tale of the early years in the life of Jesus Christ tops the list this week...
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TV Review: Jumping Up to Jive in Ballroom Bootcamp— Jive uses "fast twitch" muscle fibers and demands a high level of fitness, to bounce, spring, and twist vigorously.
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Weekly BlogScan: Lost in Translation— Dead kittens, rejuvenated corpses, Satanic verses, and lossy translations confound Internet communications, sometimes deliberately.
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Sin and Redemption in The Natural— It is in the development of its smaller sinners and weaker saints that The Natural transcends cartoonish simplicity.
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a Lost Capote Novel— ...
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Lemony Snicket Vol. 12 Has a Name: The Penultimate Peril— The publisher advises, "Please be warned. This collection is a great deal of misfortune."
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Turkish University President Arrested Amid Allegations of Corruption— Blogcritics reader Haluk Direskeneli pointed out that some of Aşkın's artifacts collection was damaged in the seizure following his arrest.
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US District Court Finds MyFreeMedicine Isn't— Banned ads falsely offered to provide free prescriptions to low-income consumers.
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Weekly BlogScan: Karl Rove— Is he a lightning rod? The Anti-Christ? Just another cog in the Bush machine? Or the Perfect Rovian Storm?
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TV Review: Ballroom Bootcamp Takes on Tango— With so much credit for "the look" and so little, comparatively, for footwork, you have a disputable result...
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21 Things to Love or Despise— Sex. Hot monkey love. Dirty boogie. Horizontal mambo. Tangoing between the sheets... But that's a different list.
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Book Review: An Unreasonable Woman by Diane Wilson— An uncomfortable read: besides Wilson and her opponent, Formosa Plastics, the horrendous litany of toxins is calculated to appall.
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Nearly Nude News: Runs with Underwear— Runners in Hawaai and Nebraska (brrr!) compete in their undergarments.
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Mao, Armstrong, Shakespeare, and Lemony Snicket— Lemony Snicket has "art too awful to show." Strunk's new style guide also is illustrated. Awful? Wait 'til next week...
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UNICEF Bombs Smurf Village for Ad Campaign— Adult Smurfs die horribly, and Baby Smurf is left a wailing orphan in the bombed-out ruins of the village...
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Actor Louis Nye Dead at 92— ...
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Book Review: The eBay Survival Guide by Michael Banks— Have a yen for some tchotchkes or objets d'art? Have a gewgaw or gimcrack to sell? eBay it!
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Nude News: Naked Men Enter Shops in SC, UT— Worse than sliding/striding - sans fig leaf - into the local Check 'n Go or Kwiki-Mart? Getting arrested for it...
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Weekly BlogScan: H5N1 and Avian Flu Fears— The threat may be real, or it may be an inflated concern like the 1976 Swine Flu fiasco...
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TV Review: TLC's Ballroom Bootcamp— Tour Guide achieves Latin motion, Tired Mama loses weight and shines in sequins, Tomboy Blonde finds femininity is triumphant.
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Next Week in the Bookstore: Grateful Dead, Juveniles from Celebs, and Wheel of Time #11— ...
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Florida Takes Homes from 6,000 Residents Under New Eminent Domain Ruling— ...
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