Review No. 161: Conway Donuts 1311 Harkrider Street (501) 499-9841 73.7 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: It was a Sunday morning and we’d been running ourselves ragged for the past couple of days and She Said reminded me we needed to review a restaurant yet this week. So that meant… Continue reading Conway Donuts
Author: Jay Ruud
Odes, by Sharon Olds
Odes Sharon Olds (2016) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] In 2010, the poet, critic, and blogger Anis Shivani wrote on the Huffington Post of Sharon Olds: she writes about the female body in a deterministic, shamanistic, medieval manner. Infantilization packaged in pseudo-confession is… Continue reading Odes, by Sharon Olds
Taj Majal Indian Kitchen
Review No. 160: Taj Majal Indian Kitchen 2850 Prince Street (501) 712-5772 73.6 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: So there’s a new Indian restaurant in Conway—and just to make it easy for you, it’s in the same location as the old Indian restaurant in Conway. The Tour of India, which… Continue reading Taj Majal Indian Kitchen
The Secret Life of Pets 2
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Chris Renaud and Jonathan del Val, 2019) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Susanns.jpg’ attachment=’78’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=10” appearance=’on-hover’] 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] Babysitting our 4-year-old grandkids this weekend opened up the possibility of watching an animated movie that my wife couldn’t refuse, so we were off to the… Continue reading The Secret Life of Pets 2
Papa John’s
Review No. 159: Papa John’s Pizza 215 Farris Road (501) 327-9111 73.2 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: We were watching our twin preschool grandsons for the weekend, and we needed an easy meal in Conway after taking them to church with my 93-year-old mother. I figured Papa John’s would be… Continue reading Papa John’s
Sara Teasdale’s “I Shall Not Care”
Lord Byron’s “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos”
Rita Dove’s “Fifth Grade Autobiography”
Rocketman
Rocketman Dexter Fletcher (2019) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Rocketman, the jukebox musical biopic of Elton John, begins with Taron Egerton (Kingsman), dressed in an orange-and-maroon outfit of feathers, plumes, wings, and demonic horns, walking purposely down a long hallway, and my mind immediately flashed back to last… Continue reading Rocketman
Booksmart
Booksmart Olivia Wilde (2019) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Here’s a little coming-of-age movie that garnered some $7 million during its opening weekend—not exactly a summer blockbuster, but if anybody was anticipating that, they shouldn’t have released it opposite Disney’s live-action Aladdin, which was primed to dominate the… Continue reading Booksmart