Zombieland: Double Tap Ruben Fleischer (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] Has it really been ten years since the original Zombieland? I know time is supposed to move faster the older you get, but I’m thinking I must be about 159 by now, since… Continue reading Zombieland: Double Tap
New China Buffet
Review No. 177: New China Buffet 2104 Harkrider St., #101 (501) 764-1886 80.5 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: I had a date to have lunch with my daughter for the first time in awhile, and we needed to do a review, so we killed two birds with one stone. (I… Continue reading New China Buffet
Margaret Atwood’s “Habitation”
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon (1973) [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] I was familiar with Thomas Pynchon from having written a senior honors thesis as an undergraduate in 1972 on what writers in those days were calling “the absurd novel.” Alhough I focused on John… Continue reading Gravity’s Rainbow
Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard
Review No. 176: Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard 1040 S. Amity Road (501) 358-6221 80.0 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said:We had our twin 5-year-old grandsons for the weekend, and we like to keep things moving with them, so after our church’s Oktoberfest concluded, we tooled on over to Rita’s… Continue reading Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard
An Odd Couple: Judy and Joker
Judy (Rupert Goold 2019) and Joker (Todd Phillips 2019) [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=”] If you want to come out of the cinema with a smile on your lips and a song in your heart, you might want to avoid the way I spent… Continue reading An Odd Couple: Judy and Joker
From Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam A.H.H,” Section 27
Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights, Wild Nights”
Billy Collins’ “Lanyard”
Quichotte
Quichotte Salman Rushdie (2019) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Shakespeare-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’76’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating 4 Shakespeares [/av_image] Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, Quichotte, was published in the United States on September 3, following an August 29 release in the United Kingdom and in India. His first novel, Midnight’s Children, won the coveted… Continue reading Quichotte