Tag: josh joplin
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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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December 02, 2009 09:55 AM EST --
I usually stay away from biopics because let's face it, they aren't REAL. Sure they're based on real events, but they're always dramatized because let's face it, life doesn't package itself neatly . . .
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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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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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August 29, 2009 09:33 AM EDT --
I've had the Blockbuster Video Netflix-type program for a couple months now and it's worked pretty well. I watch my movie on Sunday, put it in the mail on Monday, and usually by Friday or Saturday . . .
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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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December 01, 2009 09:24 AM EST --
Anyone familiar with Michael Gondry's work like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Science of Sleep" knows he specializes in what could best be described as "quirky" movies. Or if . . .
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August 29, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
The Long Walk
By Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
(4/5 stars)
This was the first Stephen King book I'd ever read. Some "friends" recommended that it was one of his best, so I thought . . .
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November 24, 2009 03:59 PM EST --
Looking for something to give your friends, family, coworkers, pets this holiday season but don't want to regift them another Chia-Pet or fruitcake or Snuggie? Don't feel like standing in line three . . .
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July 17, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
(Movie: 4/4 stars)
(Book: 4/5 stars)
I feel cheated by this novel. The sole reason I read the book is because I had just watched the film version and . . .
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August 24, 2009 11:50 AM EDT --
Since I got back from vacation yesterday:
The satellite TV box doesn't work (again)
The washer jammed up and stopped working (though later it started working again)
The "upgraded" computer system . . .
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September 08, 2009 10:09 AM EDT --
Who are you, really? What are your favorite things? What are your goals? How would someone describe the "real" you? Take the "Real Me Survey" and share who you really are with the Gather community! . . .
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August 14, 2009 03:48 PM EDT --
I'm going on vacation next week and so I decided to use up most of the stuff in my fridge and cupboards to make a pretty good, though probably not appetizing-sounding meal. The amounts of ingredients . . .
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September 30, 2009 11:23 AM EDT --
It was probably a month or two ago when I was reading The Sports Guy on ESPN and he proclaimed "Almost Famous" as the greatest movie of the 00s. My first reaction was, "Was that movie even released . . .
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October 01, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
The Thursday Writing Essentials topic today is rants and I can't think of a more fun rant I've written than this one about the book, The Time Traveler's Wife . I wrote it in 2003 and since then . . .
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October 01, 2009 03:07 PM EDT --
On a message board a couple of people were getting into that familiar old timer's rant of "kids today can't sit still five minutes let alone read a novel!" My rebuttal: what about Harry Potter . . .
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November 22, 2009 01:05 PM EST --
Growing up, GI JOE was always my #2 favorite action figure (sometimes lower than that) behind Transformers. I'm not sure how to explain that, except that Transformers were cool giant robots and . . .
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July 21, 2009 09:17 AM EDT --
Here are some more of my movie Tweets--movie reviews in 140 characters or less!:
Fanboys: a movie every Star Wars fan should see. ***
Kill Bill: After five hours the climactic fight scene . . .
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September 17, 2009 11:10 AM EDT --
After about four frustrating months, I finally pulled the plug on Dish Network. Now for the first time since 2001 I have only regular network TV to rely on. So far the withdrawal symptoms . . .
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