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New Car!
The wife and I bought an '07 Prius from a CarMax on Saturday.We'd been circling and circling the new Honda Insight, test driving it a couple times at different dealerships, but at the end of the day,...
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Winter is Coming
HBO has officially picked up George RR Martin's "Game of Thrones" for a full 10-episode season.From the Hollywood Reporter:Winter is, indeed, coming. HBO has greenlighted highly anticipated fantasy...
View ArticleUnilluminating Inanities Facts
After an unusually long period of effectiveness the Google/Blogger spam-filters stopped working some months ago. Or maybe the spammers finally figured out whatever trick Google had employed to keep...
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Kick Ass
Saw "Kick Ass" on Friday night. I haven't been this disappointed by a movie I expected to be good since "Jurassic Park." The film is getting 75% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, which actually...
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Well. Work is dead and I’ve got an hour before I can leave. So here's some random stuff. 1.)Peter Travers of Rolling Stone has weighed in on ‘Iron Man 2’. For a new TV spot, the studio's excerpted his...
View ArticleNude Tayne
Now I need to see everything Tim and Eric have done because this is hilarious. I especially love the moment when Paul Rudd gets the version of Tayne he asks for.And yeah, I just got this off of...
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"The Special Relationship"
I watched a new movie on HBO last weekend called ‘The Special Relationship’. Starring Michael Sheen as British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Dennis Quaid as President Bill Clinton, the movie depicts...
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Deadly Bear from a Galaxy Far Far Away
The only thing more frightening than running into a bear in the wilderness? Running into a bear armed with a light saber. I know this goes without saying, but two hours of this would have been so much...
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Inception (Spoiler-Heavy Review)
There’s a moment early on in ‘Inception’, in a scene where Cobb (Leonardo DeCaprio) is speaking to his grandfather, Miles (played by Michael Caine) about what Cobb must do to get back Home. Cobb’s got...
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Chris and Hans want to blow your mind one more time
To add a bit more to my previous 'Inception' post, click on this link.Some of you may have already seen this on Facebook, but for those who haven't, definitely worth a look.I didn't think I could be...
View ArticleNew Look!
Because some of the YouTube videos I was linking to were getting cut almost in half by the Blogger template I was using, I wanted to change it up with one of the new templates they offer. I like it,...
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"They hide in plain sight."
I checked out the 2-hour premiere of AMC's new conspiracy-themed drama "Rubicon" last night (2 million people tuned in, a record for AMC original programming) and really enjoyed it. I was impressed by...
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Wherein this Blogger Reviews Two Novels, one being 'The Passage" by Justin...
Been reading a bit this summer. Just finished a couple books I thought I'd let you know about.1.) "The Passage" by Justin Cronin. This was billed by some as the event book of the summer, none more...
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A Bit More on Inception
I went on so long writing this comment in response to Craig's comment on my "Inception" post, I thought it might be better to just post the whole thing up here.First, do go to the comments section and...
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Franzen's New Book and New Look at Jack London
Book excitement. Jonathan Franzen's new novel, "Freedom", his first since 2001's brilliant "The Corrections", will be released on August 31st. And the reviews! The New York Times calls it "both a...
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Musings on a White-out Tape Dispenser, and Newsmap
There's a curved indentation molded into the plastic of the Bic Wite-Out tape dispenser, just to the southwest of the 'W' in 'Wite-Out', that you can put your fingernail into and, without much effort,...
View ArticleYou Got Served by a Fiddler on the Roof
I haven't actually seen either of these movies, but mashing these two movies together seems pretty inspired.Enjoy it, ya herd?
View ArticleA Song of Ice and Entitled Jerks
Just finished reading a fascinating article about George RR Martin in The New Yorker. Martin is, of course, the author of 5 novels that will eventually make up a 7-part series called 'The Song of Ice...
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Whatever you do, don't answer the "Call of Juarez"
I had my first encounter with RedBox over the Labor Day weekend. Impressive. The entire process of renting and returning a movie or game from a RedBox unit is intuitive, simple and, best of all, cheap....
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Some Election Night Drawings
See if you can guess which network I was tuned into last night.
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'Finding Bigfoot' Returns!
Animal Planet's 'Finding Bigfoot' had its 3rd season premiere last night. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed my deluded Bigfoot-chasing friends until they interviewing all new Bigfoot "witnesses",...
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