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member name: Paul M.
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March 02, 2009 10:12 AM EST --
Strange But True: March 2, 2009
Nut Sees Virgin Mary in Nut?
People have claimed to see an image of the Virgin Mary in tortillas, toast, and potato chips. Now a man in Little Mesa, . . .
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November 30, 2009 10:54 AM EST --
I hope that you did your patriotic duty this Black Friday and this Cyber Monday by spending money to stimulate the economy. As you know, retailers depend on these pseudoholidays for 90% of their . . .
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June 28, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
Here are some movie reviews I wrote for my Twitter account. It's kind of fun summarizing a movie in one sentence of 100 characters or less.
"The Spirit": Worst superhero movie since . . .
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July 16, 2009 09:58 AM EDT --
The self-titled debut album by the band Among the Oak & Ash is now available from Amazon and iTunes on CD, MP3, and I think even vinyl.
(4/5 stars)
When I first heard about this project on MySpace, . . .
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November 29, 2009 08:14 PM EST --
(Warning: contains spoilers)
Probably the biggest cliche ending for books, movies, and such are variations on "They Lived Happily Ever After" starting with the old Mother Goose stories. . . .
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December 11, 2009 11:47 AM EST --
If you're buying XMas music from Amazon, sometimes patience is a virtue. The Boxmasters XMas album I bought last week for $8.91 is now on sale for $7.99. Also, the Tori Amos XMas album priced . . .
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October 13, 2009 10:08 AM EDT --
I wondered why I hadn't received the sweatshirt and hat I ordered from my college alma mater yet, considering it's been nearly a week. So today I found the UPS tracking order and checked it online . . .
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May 21, 2009 10:47 AM EDT --
I just noticed that with the recent update the header on the Gather home page has changed from "Best Conversation" to "Meet People and Make New Friends". So does that reflect a changing philosophy . . .
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June 12, 2009 02:51 PM EDT --
A Heart Lies Within Us
By Steven LeBree
(5/5 stars)
The life of Lucas Colby is never easy or simple. Shortly after the turn of the century, Lucas's parents travel from West Virginia to Ohio, . . .
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July 05, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
Anansi Boys
By Neil Gaiman
(3.5/5 stars)
"Anansi Boys" is not so much a sequel to Gaiman's "American Gods" as it is more of a spin-off, a literary "Rhoda" or "Facts of Life." In "American . . .
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December 16, 2009 09:38 AM EST --
Since it is the time of "best of" lists I've been doing a couple "best of" lists of my own. (And let's face it, it's an easy way to pick up a few points for doing very little.) Since it's . . .
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December 18, 2009 10:35 AM EST --
So here are the biggest trends according to Google:
1 obama copenhagen
2 chris henry
3 research in motion
4 champions league
5 weather forecast
6 avatar movie
7 rim
8 twitter . . .
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June 22, 2009 10:48 AM EDT --
Here's my bad joke for the day: Frank Miller may have won acclaim for writing "The Dark Knight Returns" graphic novel but his directorial debut is certainly no "Dark Knight." Honestly, "The . . .
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June 29, 2009 10:00 PM EDT --
Chronicles of the Undead
By AF Stewart
(5/5 stars)
These days when people think of vampire books they think of emo teenage angst-ridden romance yarns like "Twilight" instead of classics such as . . .
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May 22, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
(4/5 stars)
I mentioned this in my review of "Good Omens" but just to recap, I came by this book after reading Terry Pratchett's fabulous Discworld series. From . . .
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July 17, 2009 04:35 PM EDT --
The Winter King
(Warlord Chronicles, Part 1)
by Bernard Cornwell
OK, most everyone should know the legend of King Arthur by now. If you don't, the basic summary is that there was once a king . . .
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September 27, 2009 12:12 PM EDT --
I summarized the movie on Twitter as follows: It's like the "Bourne" movies only without the boring command center scenes. So basically you're left with the car chases and fights without a . . .
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November 29, 2009 03:58 PM EST --
And not the jungle river in South America or a group of women warriors but the website. I pretty much did all my XMas shopping on Amazon.com this year. Not because I'm lazy and didn't feel . . .
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December 07, 2009 09:23 AM EST --
It wasn't until 1999 when I bought my first album of XMas music, Jewel's "Joy" album. Since then my collection has grown exponentially. Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to buy more . . .
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March 02, 2009 10:41 AM EST --
This movie really made me nostalgic for those '80s John Hughes pictures like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" or similar knockoffs like "Adventures in Babysitting" where a group . . .
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