Phoebe has become a big fan of the songs from Disney's most recent animated adventure, Moana. She especially loves the single word/refrain "Shiny"—like all great pop tracks, this one adheres to the rule that a song's name must come from its most frequently-used phrase—and she belts it out at the top of her lungs with great enthusiasm.

It has been remarkably un-Winter-like of late. The break's not expected to last, naturally, with snow in the fairly-immediate forecast . But the balminess has been lots of fun, all the same. 

"Warrick Mitchell lives deep in one of the world's most remote locations: Fiordland, New Zealand. His home in the country’s oldest national park is nestled in a vast wildness accessible only by boat or airplane, a four day walk from the nearest road."

By the end of the week, critical consensus on the film had taken a very different tack, settling firmly into "Rotten" territory at the ubiquitous Rotten Tomatoes site (where "Top Critics" savaged it to the tune of 13%). Ebert was shocked by the response, and wrote extensively in defense of both its cinematic and metaphysical worth.

"STORY: a levitating timepiece that orbits around a wooden base, counting the hours, minutes or even years."