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Monday, January 11, 2010

Book Review: 1,000 White Women (5 of 100)

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus is yet another on my list of books that I would actually read under normal circumstances, but I'm trying to broaden my reading tastes in my effort to read 100 books in 2010. After deciding to broaden my reading horizons, for this book especially, I've come to... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Book Review: The Guinea Pig Diaries (book 4 of 100)

The Guinea Pig diaries: My Life is Experiment is the latest work by A.J. Jacobs who is rather famous for his work The Year of Living Biblically. One might be surprised that I like his work as much as I do. He is, after all, a white, able-bodied, homosexual man and I find most of this group's work... Sign in to see full entry.

Commentary: It's Funny what Kids Think

When I was a kid, I assumed that I would learn how to walk or die because until I was about 12 I'd never seen a grown-up in a wheelchair. I became very excited when an adult in a wheelchair came on the TV in a commercial. I asked my mother to come into the room, so I could show her this person. She... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Book Review: The Darwin Conspiracy (Book 3 of 100)

The Darwin Conspiracy is not the sort of book I'd pick up normally. I think I chose it because I have been obsessed of late with neanderthals. Part of me hoped the book would be about that. Sadly it wasn't. The novel tells the story of Hugh, an evolutionary biology grad student, who is dealing with... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Movie Review: The Big One

I love Michael Moore. I thought I'd seen every movie the man had made. Imagine my surprise when I discovered The Big One at the libarary. It follows Mr. Moore on his book tour of his long ago book Downsize This!, which I also own. He goes to a Border's, and finds out of a secret union organizing... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Book Review: Robinson Crusoe (book 2 of 100 for 2010)

I saw Robinson Crusoe as a TV series and loved it. So I was eager to read the an abridged version by Daniel Defoe on CD. But I was most unhappy with the audio book. It kind of the ramblings of a crazy man, who's been without human contact. For most of the first 6 CD's he talks just to us "the... Sign in to see full entry.

Book Review: Flash Forward (book 1 of 100 for 2010)

I really loved this book by Robert J. Sawyer. It's based on a TV series that I started watching when I still had cable. It's a really awesome basis for a TV series. I am up at 3 in morning listening to tales of Theo, Lloyd, and the rest of the crew of physicists I've become attached to. An odd thing... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Movie Review: Animatrix

The Animatrix is a collection of nine filmmakers visions of the Matrix universe. It's in animated form and fills in a lot of back story of the Matrix universe. If you are a total Matrix head like I am, you'll recognize some of the stories from the movie. The Last Flight of the Osiris is the first... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Movie Review: A Christmas Carol.

As many people here know, I'm kind of a fan of Dickens. I've been working on my own retelling of The Christmas Carol for some years now. I hoped to inspire my muse which somehow abandoned the story midstream by going to see the latest version of the classic Dickens tale. I wrote about the movie a... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Movie Review: Fool's Gold

I don't know what's wrong with this movie review. I've tried to post it three times. If it doesn't post this time, I'm going to assume it's some universal sign and just give up. I don't like treasure movies except for the National Treasure series and Robertson Crusoe (even if he really wasn't a... Sign in to see full entry.

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