Tag: protest
member name: Paul M.
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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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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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January 24, 2009 05:36 PM EST --
I had wanted to see "Milk" ever since it first came out back in November, but of course first I had to wait until it actually came to a theater near me. Now that award season is kicking . . .
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January 30, 2009 10:27 AM EST --
I'm going to lay my prognosticating skill on the line here for some Super Bowl Predictions:
I predict a football game will be played on Sunday
I predict it will feature the Arizona . . .
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October 24, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
My favorite musical artist you've probably never heard about is a guy named Josh Joplin. Back in 2001 I first heard his songs when he was with the Josh Joplin Group (previously the Josh Joplin . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:04 AM EST --
I was looking at the Oscar nominations on my local paper's website. Here's the list of Best Picture nominees:
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Frost/Nixon”
“Milk”
“The . . .
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November 08, 2008 08:52 PM EST --
A Widow For One Year
by John Irving
(2/5 stars)
This is the second-and-a-half time I read this book. The half was when I read the first 183 pages, which was turned into the movie "The . . .
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January 28, 2009 11:33 AM EST --
At the Treetop Diner near Denali National Park, Alaska governor and former vice-president hopeful Sarah Palin was spotted having moose burgers with a large, smelly, hairy man. According to our anonymous . . .
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May 10, 2009 12:22 AM EDT --
I've always considered myself a Star Trek fan but not a Trekkie. The distinction in my mind is that I've watched the shows (though I tuned out most of the "Enterprise" prequel . . .
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May 15, 2009 03:15 PM EDT --
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Or Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman depending on your edition)
(5/5 stars)
In 1988 two great British humorists got together to write a story . . .
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July 24, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
4/5 stars
The first time I read "The Cider House Rules" it changed my life in more ways than one. For one thing up to that point I had been . . .
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January 25, 2009 07:43 PM EST --
Watchmen
Written by Alan Moore
Illustrated by Dave Gibbons
(5/5 stars)
I've never been interested in reading comic books, which is ironic because I watched comic book heroes on TV and . . .
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June 26, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
The writers behind the first Transformers movie in 2007 and the more recent "Star Trek" movie have once again made another blockbuster popcorn movie that is completely disposable. Full of cheap . . .
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May 26, 2009 04:49 PM EDT --
My novel, Where You Belong has finally been uploaded to Amazon and is available for purchase. The list price is $13.99 USD and it qualifies on Amazon for free shipping on orders of $25 or more . . .
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August 23, 2009 11:48 PM EDT --
Being a single man, I don't watch a lot of love stories in the theater. But I had read the novel "The Time Traveler's Wife" twice and had been looking forward to the movie version, which had faced . . .
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October 30, 2009 10:21 AM EDT --
I just finished watching all 156 episodes of the original Twilight Zone series (1959-1964) over the last two months. Here are some important lessons I've learned:
If you're a jerk, expect . . .
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January 27, 2009 11:42 AM EST --
For almost a century, a fierce battle has been waged between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola on TV, radio, movies, magazines, and newspapers. But in reality these two supposedly bitter rivals are actually . . .
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March 05, 2009 08:44 AM EST --
I've seen some very ominous billboards appearing lately. They feature half of the Quaker Oats Quaker's face with the slogan "go humans go." Clearly the Quaker Oatmeal company . . .
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March 22, 2009 05:54 PM EDT --
Discworld series
by Terry Pratchett
Volume 24: The Fifth Elephant : The Discworld is held up by four elephants on top of a giant space turtle. But long ago legend has it there . . .
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April 01, 2009 09:34 PM EDT --
Tom's Job
By Ethan Cooper
(5/5 stars)
Just about anyone who's ever gone out into the working world has held a job like Tom's Job: a job that is a real J-O-B, not a career. . . .
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