The Dark Knight. Yeah, it’s that good.

This past weekend I got together with all my good friends and went to see The Dark Knight. As I sat there alone in the theater waiting for the movie to start I realized that the last movie I saw in the theater was Batman Begins.  Can you tell I don’t get out much?
As I [...]

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Changing the way we read.

In the sixth grade I met a kid named John who was a classmate of mine.  We weren’t best friends but we talked and joked occasionally.  One thing I noticed about John was that he carried a book with him everywhere he went in school.  Not a school book — a novel.  There was [...]

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I know how you feel.

In his recent review of the film Step Brothers (Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly), Roger Ebert offers this aside:
Sometimes I think I am living in a nightmare. All about me, standards are collapsing, manners are evaporating, people show no respect for themselves. I am not a moralistic nut. I’m proud of the X-rated movie I [...]

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To the batpole, or not to the batpole?

The Gainsville Sun has a nifty article about an English professor who is writing a paper comparing Batman to Hamlet.  Now that’s a paper I’d love to read.
In addition to the superficial similarities between Batman and Hamlet — the mournful attitude, the black outfits, the upper-class backgrounds — both characters are avenging the death of [...]

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A question of ownership.

If I go to the store and purchase a CD it’s mine to do with as I please.  I can play it in my car stereo, on my living room stereo, or in my computer at work.  If a friend picks me up for lunch I can bring along the CD and pop it in [...]

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"Cubicle monkey goes mad."

We’ve all been there, and some are there now.  Your career has become just a job.  You feel unfulfilled and uninspired, and you’re not sure what to do about it.
One man I recently met has thought of something to do about it.  Go on a bicycle ride.  A long one.  And by “long” I mean [...]

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Now that’s a bargain!

I spotted this fantastic deal at Lowe’s over the weekend:

I’m buying two before the price goes back up!

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Boy, the way Glen Miller played.

There is an episode of The Twilight Zone titled “The Incredible World of Horace Ford,” which stars Pat Hingle as a grown man obsessed with his childhood days.  He is so preoccupied with the past that he can’t relate to the present, which leads to losing his job and almost losing his marriage.
Horace idealized his [...]

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Quest for fire.

I’m a salsa junkie.  As my Dad would say, I eat salsa on everything but cereal.  My store-bought brand of choice has always been Pace(tm), but a couple of weeks ago after purchasing a blender that doubles as a food processor I began a quest to make the perfect salsa at home.  
I started by [...]

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Simple Solution #1

Sometimes we think too hard when it comes to solving problems.  Often the simplest answers are the best.  Thus the patented (not really) Destination Unknown “Simple Solution.”
Solution #1
Two of the biggest problems facing our nation today are obesity and the energy crisis.  Want a Simple Solution(tm) to tackle both problems at once?
Program all [...]

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