In the days before YouTube and after MTV stopped playing videos, it was hard to find copies of videos for watching. There were a few collections out from the glory days of […]
Patti Aliventi
Once upon a time there was this website called Epinions. I wrote thousands of reviews there. I love books, movies, and television; mostly science fiction. I'm a gun-totin', meat-eatin' liberal with libertarian leanings who will voice my opinion.
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns: History, Music and Message in 19 Hours or So
Ken Burns has become the leading maker of documentaries in this country in the last twenty years. After viewing his series on Baseball, I knew by a quote at the beginning of […]
Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan’s Soul – Inspiration During the Hot-Stove Months
A love of baseball is something in the blood. If nothing else, I am living testimony to that. I was adopted when I was seven days old. My parents had no sports […]
Time to Watch the Doctor – Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang – Think Fu-Manchu Meets Sherlock Holmes
Written by Robert HolmesDirected by David Maloney Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series which has been around off and on since 1963. The main character is just known as […]
Movie Review: 61* – Roger Maris Got a Raw Deal in New York
Written by Hank SteinbergDirected y Billy Crystal New York fans are brutal, there’s just no two ways about it. Through the years I’ve seen great players broken by a combination of the […]
Series Rewatch – Babylon 5: Believers – The Debate about Faith vs. Science from 1994 that Resonates Today
Written by David Gerrold and J. Michael StraczynskiDirected by Richard Compton Back when I first began watching Babylon 5, this was one of the first episodes I saw, and one that resonated […]
Book Review: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn – The Most Important Book You’ve Probably Never Read
Truth be told, I haven’t “read” it yet either. I ended up purchasing the audiobook and listening to it over the course of a few months. It’s hard to digest rapidly, much […]
It’s Arbor Day Charlie Brown – Yankee Stadium Needs a Tree on Its Pitchers Mound
Written by Charles M. SchulzDirected by Phil Roman Who knows anything about Arbor Day? All I knew was it had something to do with planting trees. In the last few years, it […]
Movie Review: A Christmas Story – For Those Of Us Who Never Have the “Perfect” Christmas
Written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob ClarkDirected by Bob Clark For some people, Christmas means the perfect celebration. You know the kind. Their kids all look perfect in the Christmas […]
Quantum Leap – The Complete Third Season on DVD
Quantum Leap was a television show that begin airing in March of 1989. The premise was that Sam Beckett was a scientist who in order to keep his funding, tests his experiment. […]
Thoughts From the Mountain Top 