Thanksgiving, 2016
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Limitless, movie review
Another good one that I discovered on Netflix. It’s about a down and out writer who runs into a friend that offers to help him get out of his rut. The friend offers the writer an experimental pill that his company is working on. He has nothing to lose, so he takes it. On the way home, he runs into the landlady’s daughter, who proceeds…
Hell, Movie review
This is one of those happy instances where I chose a recommended movie from Netflix and it actually turned out to be a good choice. So, I thought I’d share it with you. It takes place in the future, where climate change has exceeded Al Gore’s wildest dreams, and the earth is a wasteland. A small group of survivors is living off the land, foraging…
Moonrise Kingdom, movie review
Wonderful story–crazy, but very engaging. Two kids from a small town on an island in the middle of nowhere decide to run away from home. A simple theme, but the kids are very much on the quirky side, kind of like Napoleon Dynamite. And the characters that make up the respective parents are just loony–but in a funny way. Bill Murray is one of the…
The Downside of eBooks
I saw a post on audiobooks, where a frequent contributor was lamenting the fact that he couldn’t find newly released books on Amazon, yet could find them on audiobooks.com (sells audio versions of books). That caught my attention, and it reminded me of another point that I’ve observed about the ebook phenomenon–high prices. And it’s mostly caused by the fact that publishers now pretty much…
The Devil’s Rock-excellent horror movie
It takes place during WWII, and is set inside a German gun fortress on an island somewhere north of Germany. The place is full of dark tunnels, so it’s spooky just trying to figure out what’s around the corner. A pair of Allied soldiers have snuck in to blow it up, and instead, hear lots of screaming and lots of dead soldiers. The Germans have…
Cancun 2012
With this kind of beginning, how can we go wrong? We managed to arrange our flight time so we didn’t have to get up while it was still dark. I couldn’t pass up this photo, stopping on the way into the airport. And it must have been a good omen–during the flight, our seats stayed bolted to the floor and everything. Here’s a tip if…
John Carter (movie review)
I wanted to like this movie. And I did. Maybe it helped to watch the original version, which was really a stinker. Anyway, I’ve been a Tarzan and John Carter fan ever since high school. Edgar Rice never got the respect he deserves–he’s well known for his Tarzan books, but I never saw any love for JC. Well, he makes a grand entrance here, and…
Prometheus (movie review)
It’s a stand alone movie, even though it helps to have seen the Alien series first. Full of suspense and cliffhangers–and if it doesn’t scare the crap out of you, you might be an alien. The story is a search for the Engineers, creators of the first humans. Well, of course, they find one, you already figured that out, didn’t you? But the horrors they…
1:30 am–No, this cab’s not going anywhere
I never envisioned the last leg of my vacation ending like this–who could have seen this coming? My plane landed at Reagan National last night at midnight, 10 minutes ahead of schedule. Home free, I thought. The Metro leg went fine, even though I’ve never traveled on it this late. Exited the White Flint station at 1 am, and I started having my first doubts…
Branson 2012
We did things a little differently this year–KK flew into OKC from Richmond on Thursday, to drive out with Deanne and Jeanne on Saturday, and I arrived in Branson from DC the following Sunday. Didn’t do much the first day–hit happy hour at the pool and played Chicken Foot that night. On Monday, we rented a boat and cruised Table Rock Lake. Bill drove–proudly showing…