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Flowers in the Attic: Table of Contents

Here is the Table of Contents for Flowers in the Attic. New recaps will be linked as they are hastily written.  Part One Prologue and Good-Bye-Daddy. The Road to Riches The Grandmother's House The Attic The Wrath of God Momma's Story Minutes Like Hours To Make a Garden Grow To Make a Garden Grow (Part II) Holidays Holidays (Part Two) The Christmas Party Christopher's Exploration and Its Repercussions The Long Winter, and Spring, and Summer   Part Two
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Disney Animated Feature: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

I thought it might be fun to rewatch some old Disney films and examine them under modern day morals and norms, and see how they hold up. If this isn't your thing, that's cool. I'm sure I'll get bored before I make it to the Renaissance Disney stuff, anyway. Full disclosure, there are several I haven't seen, and one that I've only seen in French. So I don't have the same level of nostalgia that many of you might have.   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is the first full length Animated Featu
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Rewatching Contact: 23 years later

I recently rewatched the 1997 Sci-Fi film Contact. Directed by Forrest Gump's Robert Zemeckis (among many, many other well known films), Contact was a film that I had mostly forgotten about. Sure, everytime a new sci-fi film came out in the past decade, it was mentioned. But mostly I remembered it as kind of weird Jody Foster film that I saw in high school. (Now you know how old I am!)  Contact, despite being 23 years old, is still incredibly relevant to this day. Dr. Ellie Arroway works fo
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 24

Veruca in the Nut Room   You've got to hand it to OG Veronica. She inspired this. Alas, this is the book. Wonka warns his guests about the NUT ROOM by saying "Whatever you do, don't go into THE NUT ROOM. If you go in, you'll disturb the squirrels." Seems straightforward. Wonka explains that the squirrels are trained to shell walnuts. Mike Teavee, being the reasonable one in the room, asks why squirrels instead of Oompa Loompas. Let's not get me started on food safety
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 3

This chapter is awkward.  Chapter 3: Mr. Wonka and the Indian Prince  Grandpa Joe tells Charlie the story of "Prince Pondicherry," who had asked Mr. Willy Wonka to "come all the way out to India and build him a colossal palace entirely of chocolate." Those Indians, amirite? Always with their weird names and schemes to do impractical things. /s Mr. Wonka, of course, builds the chocolate palace and tells Prince Pondicherry (Which is a cute name but also strikes me as somewhat i
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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The Phantom Tollbooth Reread: Chapters 14 & 15

Chapter 14: The Dodecahedron Leads the Way Five miles from Digitopolis, the trio comes across a sign at a three-way fork in the road. Because this is no ordinary book, the sign points them in all three directions and gives them the distance to Digitopolis. The distance is given in miles, rods, yards, feet, inches, and half inches. The Humbug suggests traveling by miles, as it’s shorter, while Milo wants to travel by half-inches. Tock is more concerned about which road to take. I swear, the
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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The Phantom Tollbooth Reread: Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Unfortunate Conclusions Keeping his mouth shut, Milo goes to meet the crowd of silent people. They ask him about the sound, he writes “It’s on the tip of my tongue” and spits it into the cannon. As the group prepares to fire it, Milo suddenly hopes no one gets hurt. Before he has time to think about that, the sound goes flying into the building and the building crashes down. All of the sounds come out at once, and there was lots of confusion. Milo, Tock, and the Humbug go to con
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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The Phantom Tollbooth Reread: Chapters 17 & 18

Chapter 17: Unwelcoming Committee After what seemed like days, the trio of reluctant heroes have barely made any progress on their projects. Milo notices that he doesn’t feel tired or hungry and could on doing the same thing forever. The faceless man remarks that perhaps Milo will go on forever. Tock suggests that Milo use “his magic staff” and find out how long it will take. Milo calculates that it will take them over 800 years to finish. Milo chooses to question the “man” about the 8
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Worldly Distractions: The Simpsons 26.18 - The Kids Are All Fight

Yeah, yeah, another Simpsons episode. This week we get to go back in time! Again. To Bart and Lisa's early childhood! Again. It's hard to get enthusiastic this far into the game. Come on, writers, wow me. We actually get real opening credits! Chalkboard: Lisa writes the words, "I will not pay my sister to do my punishment". Bart watches. Lisa plays the harp in the school band this time. The couch gag shows the Simpsons as pegs playing the Game of Life, hitting such squares as "u
crazyforkate

crazyforkate

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 23

Square Candies That Look Round I'm trying to keep myself from going to the coffee shop and buying a $4 brownie.  They are very good brownies but I'm no longer in a place where a $4 brownie covered in chocolate art is affordable for my bank account or my health.  So instead I'm going to take a second and show you this screenshot of something I saw 5 minutes ago. So that's how Grandpa Joe got out of bed.  Anyway, this chapter is useless. They look at some candies (or swee
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Worldly Distractions: Modern Family 6.5 - Won't You Be Our Neighbor

It was so tempting to add that extra, civilized "u". Differences in English, it bums me out. My apologies for turning this in a day late (I came down with that mysterious illness known as "unexpected theatre tickets"), and let's move on to the episode ASAP. The Dunphys court a new neighbo(u)r, hopefully the hippie played by Jesse Eisenberg who lived next door to Mitch and Cam. We'll see what transpires. Phil heads out to work, which involves selling their neighbour Jerry's house (yeah
crazyforkate

crazyforkate

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Chapter 12

Chapter 12: What It Said on the Golden Ticket Charlie (which I pronounce in my head as Chaaaaalie, which I think is a TWOP Lost reference that I should stop doing) bursts into the cat's grandparent's room. They are eating their evening soup. Charlie shouts about finding the Golden Ticket, and finding money in the street. Everyone is silent. They think it's a joke. Charlie shows them the Golden Ticket.  Grandpa Joe, who is not illiterate, holds the ticket up to his face, so close it's a
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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The Phantom Tollbooth Reread: Chapter 16

Chapter 16: A Very Dirty Bird Milo climbs the stairs to infinity, but eventually collapses. As he begins talking to himself, half of a small child starts talking to him. Okay, .58 of a child. The child says that they are the average family, with a mother, father, and 2.58 children. He is the .58. He also says that infinity is a dreadfully poor place where no one can make ends meet. They discuss averages. Milo is confused by some of the examples given to him, such as The boy offe
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Worldly Distractions: The Big Bang Theory 8.8 - The Prom Equivalency

Hey guys! Everything the actors have been hinting at suggests that this is going to be a big episode. I'm a little skeptical, due to the marketing machinations of the Hollywood world, but definitely game. Take your bets on whether Penny's pregnant, Howard goes to space again, or Amy and Sheldon finally do it, and let's get going. Over lunch at CalTech, the guys discuss Howard's mom, who is apparently still dating Stuart, which creeps Howard out immensely. Sheldon throws in trivia to k
crazyforkate

crazyforkate

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Worldly Distractions: The Big Bang Theory 8.13 - The Anxiety Optimization

No, I could not resist this picture of cat-Richard Feynman. After too long a hiatus, we are back in nerd country. Enjoy it! Penny and Sheldon go out on a date, but Sheldon asks him to help test out some noise-cancelling headphones first. The couple lobs insults his way until they're satisfied he can't hear. Sheldon explains he's trying to minimize distraction for the benefit of his work, blocking out his senses at all costs. When they're gone, he begins his work on proton decay - but
crazyforkate

crazyforkate

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Worldly Distractions: Modern Family 5.20 - Australia

Well, it's another Modern Family travel episode. So far we've done Hawaii, Disneyland (barely travel), Vegas, Florida, and a dude ranch, and probably some more I've forgotten. This year, the entire gang is off to Australia. Let the stereotypes begin! We get the classic "down under" picture, taken by Manny in view of the Opera House and starring Luke - which warrants Jay to quickly admit that he dropped his grandson on his head many years ago. Naturally, Phil has to join in. During an
crazyforkate

crazyforkate

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Little House in the Big Woods: The Story of Grandpa and the Panther

The Story of Grandpa and the Panther  This is Grandpa Ingalls.   Pa tells a story in which Grandpa is hunted by a panther on his way home from town. Grandpa shoots the panther.  That's it.  Which lead me to some questions about taxonomy. It's likely that Grandpa saw a cougar, which are common enough in North America. They are not normally black, though.  There is no follow up as to what happened to the body. If I shot a jaguar that had been stalking me, I would get it stuff
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Worldly Distractions: The Simpsons 25.4 - YOLO

After last week's highly depressing post-Marcia Wallace episode, I'm ready for some fun. How about you? We inexplicably begin with a James Bond-like iris over the opening credits, complete with theme music. The credits proceed as normal. Blackboard: "My school schedule does not include a bye week". We cut straight from blackboard to couch, where the Simpsons try to wander across the room in a zero-g manner. It's actually pretty beautiful, with a lovely score. Homer winds up getting suck
crazyforkate

crazyforkate

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The Phantom Tollbooth Reread: Chapters 19 & 20 (The End)

Chapter 19: The Return of Rhyme and Reason Tock, with the Princesses on his back and Milo and the Humbug holding on the back, flies over the demons, lands on the ground, and starts running with the Princesses still on his back. They all run down the mountain trails. with demons chasing them. They meet: Triple Demons of Compromise   Horrible Hopping Hindsight    Gorgons of Hate and Malice. These guys inched along like giant soft-shelled snails, with
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Worldly Distractions: How I Met Your Mother 9.18 - Rally

The Olympics are over, the fifth ring has expanded, and Canadians have stopped being smug about hockey (for now). We're back to our regularly scheduled programming. How about the denouement of Ted's epic tale? Somewhere in the future, Ted and The Mother are off to a New Year's party. She has apparently published a book and life is just peachy. They consider getting super wasted, but Ted reminds her that he took a vow. The reason for said vow involves Barney, and what he remembers of t
crazyforkate

crazyforkate

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Worldly Distractions: Modern Family 6.21 - Integrity

Considering that Integrity is the name of a very famous LGBT Episcopalian organization, I assume this will be about Cam and Mitch moving to Connecticut, drinking sherry and playing polo, right? Manny has had a bad day, because the girl he likes has found someone else. Jay tells him to buck up. If you ask me, Rico Rodriguez needs to join Nolan Gould in acting school again. Jay also discovers that Gloria had Joe's toenails painted, to which he reacts in a typical old-man way. Gloria of
crazyforkate

crazyforkate

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Flowers in the Attic: "Our Mother's Surprise" (Part 2)

I have gained weight and my underwire is poking into my boobs. It's very uncomfortable, and yet, I'm ever so grateful that I have a bra at all, unlike Cathy.  Cathy is waxing poetic about love, as many people have done throughout history. It's raining. The twins are watching TV. Chris and Cathy are laying on the old mattress in the attic, reading a book that their mother brought up from the downstairs library. They argue over each other's reading style.  The book they are reading is li
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Flowers in the Attic: "Endings, Beginnings" and "Epilogue"

Endings, Beginnings In the last chapter, we were left with a cliff hanger. Cathy was braced for the "knockout blow" of bad news that Chris alluded to, but didn't share. He was too busy describing the sex that John the Butler and a woman named Livvy had on the sofa he hid behind. He also described the Grandfather's library, right down to the placement of the furniture.  Chris asks Cathy to guess the reason that "she" (I think he's referring to the grandmother) gave for not having the ch
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Flowers in the Attic: Prologue & "Good-bye, Daddy"

I thought I might attempt a reread of the "classic" coming of age/incestfest novel "Flowers in the Attic." Those of us of a certain age remember reading these in secret, learning about horror and sex and rich people's games. I, however, did not read it in secret. Rather my mom checked it out of the library for me. I'm not sure why, or what about it appealed to her or if the librarian suggested it. But somehow I ended up reading this one and a number of other VC Andrews books.  For those of
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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Flowers in the Attic: "My Stepfather" (Part 1)

My Stepfather This chapter starts with "That spring, Chris got sick."  I am going to just retcon that the timeline is a bit wonky because it's being written in past tense, as Cathy tells this story to a ghost writer. How long did they hang out in the attic knowing they could sneak out at any time? I can't imagine not going anywhere for years. That makes me feel uncomfortable and claustrophobic.  Chris is sick and being a giant baby. He yells at Cathy, and tells her to be independant, n
Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae

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