Gas prices are painful. They have limited me but not as much as Sean Diddy Combs. Gas prices cut into my food budget and other expenses. No summer road trips this year. I consider myself lucky though that I am not pawning grandma’s ring to get gas money.  My sacrifices, and those of my community pale in [...]

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While wandering through Blockbuster looking for something unique or interesting, I found this gem. It stars two of my favorites, Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman and an actor I have never seen nor heard of before named Ben Whishaw. It takes place in mid 18 century France and is actually filmed in Bavaria [...]

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For anyone who has ever been exposed to on-line gaming or been involved with anyone addicted to on-line gaming they will appreciate a series of Video vignettes on UTube under the name, The Guild. It has all the typical archtypes of gaming addicts brilliantly portrayed by a talented cast; the neurotic healer, the elderly, [...]

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A better movie, … just rented INTO THE WILD, directed by Sean Penn. This is an excellent crafted film that I am telling everyone to see. Told in flashback it chronicles a young man’s search for the meaning and purpose of life. The search takes him across the country, down to Mexico, up the West coast and eventually to the wilds of Alaska. This is a quiet and greatly affecting…

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Most movies require a “willing suspension of disbelief”, the movie 28 Weeks Later needed your logical brain to take at least a two hour nap. The storyline had huge plot holes and expected its viewers to believe that characters separated by time and distance keep reuniting, over and over again.  Many laws of physics were [...]

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I finally managed to rent and watch Sicko a few days ago and enjoyed it. I did not learn anything new about our health care system as a lot of the revealed was often discussed in various classes while going for my Masters in Public Health. I thought Mr. Moore did a great job of [...]

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