Category: media
How Not to Avoid the Superbowl
As non-football fans, my husband and I enjoy Superbowl Sunday. Streets are empty, shops are quiet and it’s easy to find a seat in the movie theater.
One memorable year (football fans will probably remember which year it was, I don’t), we strolled down the middle of Route 123 in downtown McLean, Virginia with not a [...]
Going mainstream
It was great to see this letter in the Wall Street Journal’s “Me & My Car” column this morning:
Q: I’m a wheelchair user and athlete and am looking to buy a used car that will have enough space to transport our sports equipment (racing wheelchair, hand cycle, regular bicycle and everyday wheelchair) and is lower [...]
Goofy Things You Read about MS
From today’s paper:
On Labor Day that year Clark’s sister was able to talk her through an attack, which was brought on by the stress of planning to go away for the weekend. After that, she was able to stop several other attacks by relaxing during stressful times.
“Talk her through an attack”? Maybe it’s a variation [...]
Disability in Fiction – Charles Todd
Charles Todd’s series of books about Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge are, unlike most mainstream fiction, chock full of people with disabilities. The series is set just after the first World War. The authors (mother and son writing team Caroline and Charles Todd) sprinkle characters with disabilities liberally throughout.
The disabled include main characters, secondary recurring [...]
Mother Goose and Grimm
Seeing Eye dog jokes?. Unimaginative, and not funny.
(Full Post)Roger Ebert tells it like it is
Via The 19th Floor, movie critic Roger Ebert:
I have received a lot of advice that I should not attend the festival. I’m told that paparazzi will take unflattering pictures, people will be unkind, etc.
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I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what?
I have been very sick, am [...]
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