The Mummy (1999)

 The Mummy is one of those film franchises I had always heard of, but never showed any interest in seeing. Primarily because I thought they were horror. Dear God was I wrong! These movies (well, I've only seen the first two, known as the Rachel Weisz films), are so delightfully stupid and crazy, that they are an absolute comfort watch. I mean Brendan Fraser alone playing a hybrid mix of Allan Quatermain and Indiana Jones is reason enough to watch, plus our lone heroine is...A LIBRARIAN! *Movie joke* Movie comedies nowadays are so cringey and stupid that they're just unbearable. However, The Mummy manages to balance just enough modern day camp, with the treasure seeking adventure, the Ancient Egyptian history, and the obvious eventual romance between Rick and Evie, that you can just see them as fun.

Happy 10 Years!

I can't believe it!

10 years online! This site has been an absolute sanctuary and safe-hold for me during both good times and bad. So much inspiration, creativity, fangirling, reviews, commentaries, politics, pop culture and whatever else came to mind at the moment!

However, I wouldn't have gotten far if not for the people who have befriended, followed and supported me for so long.

This post is for all of you!!

Defending Daughters Pt. 2

I'm venting because I'm so over this sexist bullshit

 I wrote about this last year. It's a proven fact that boys are the preferred gender in America:

When People Just Need to Stop Talking

I can't begin to tell you how often I get remarks like this from people. And I am over it.

It's bad enough I have to wake up in the middle of the night to prepare for work. Then people who come in (that I get up so early in the morning for, so that they can access to the facility and all their needs are accommodated) have the alright audacity to complain about my exhausted appearance. I have told members over and over again that I'm not a morning person, however, that doesn't seem to sit well with them.

Goodreads Reviews: Mollie's War

 

Mollie's War: The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe by Mollie Weinstein Schaffer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I had wanted to find some good reading material about the women who served in WWII. The fascination of the women who worked as codebreakers and spies has captured the world's attention; the proof being found in the numerous amount of inspired fiction that has been written in the last several years. And of course, the indispensable duty as nurses who went across seas and faced just as much danger as the men they cared for. However, I was interested in the actual military volunteer services for the Army as WACs (Women's Auxiliary Corps), the Navy as WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and the Air Force as WASPs (Women Air Force Service Pilots).

I was shocked at little I was able to find about the women's military services, but Mollie's War was exactly the historical reading I've been wanting. Mollie Weinstein, a medical stenographer from Detroit Michigan, volunteered for the WACs in October of 1943. Through her carefully preserved letters to her family and friends, Mollie documents her entire war experience from basic training in Daytona Beach Florida to assisting in allied occupied Germany at the end of the war.

Journals were forbidden in the military so it was imperative that all letters sent back home were to be kept. It was the only way that the men and women overseas were able to chronicle their time in war. Mollie always desired to be a writer and she hoped that one day her letters would make an intriguing biography. While Mollie never actually finds herself in any danger, her life overseas, the people she met and history she witnessed made her time in the military remarkable.

Most of Mollie's time when she wasn't working was spent going on dates with numerous and eager soldiers. Fraternization was highly encouraged for the women in the military and some of these women were dating two to three men at a time. This was certainly the case for Mollie, who eventually finds herself caught in a fragile love triangle.

Mollie was oftentimes a prime point of contact to find family members whether in former Nazi occupied countries or who were also in the military. She never wasted any time to help anyone who needed her and she was an invaluable service to the people back at home who were desperate to know the whereabouts of their loved ones.

Mollie's War is exactly the book one may want to read if they have any interest in the life of WACs and their war service. Mollie's letters are lively, candid and always full of history that's waiting to be revealed. To see the war from a woman's POV was a eye-opening experience. Mollie may never have faced shell fire, but she saw the same destruction and depravity of Hitler's regime (this is especially personal because she's Jewish). Reading her memories that are fresh and full of life made WWII in Europe so much more real and personal.

Loki Premiere

So the show is as bizarre and as crazy as I thought it would be 

and of course, Tom Hiddleston is back in his element.

That SOB was breaking my heart before the end credits.

This confession is less than a minute and yet, Loki is the most honest and raw and real he has ever been. 

Edward Nygma - Gotham's Darkest Riddle

When I'm not rooting for Det. Jim Gordan, I'm usually swooning over
 this sad future villain. 

I'm halfway through season 3 of Gotham and as someone who normally doesn't go for the bad guys, much less the slowly descending, physco-murder types, Gotham City's former GCPD coroner, Edward "Ed" Nygma is AMAZING!