I don't have writer's block but I am at the airport with a free (but shoddy) WiFi connection and I'm waiting for a Jessica Capshaw on "The Practice" video to load on YouTube (I told you that I'm in love, didn't I?) so I'm just kind of . . . hanging out. And that leads to posts like this.

So, okay, if this was my last day on Earth . . . I don't know ( Read more... )

You know that feature on Facebook where it suggests that you friend someone because you share a lot of common friends? All the people it keeps suggesting for me are people I went to high school with. I wasn't friends with them then (which is probably why we aren't Facebook friends now) but I'm always so curious to know if they see my name on their ( Read more... )

I didn't really think I would, but I've been watching a lot of the 9/11 programming today. I watched a lot of the commemoration and the opening of the memorial today on NBC and I watched this evening's 60 Minutes and the program that followed it, which contained documentary footage of a firestation near the World Trade Center. It had footage inside ( Read more... )

It's now over and the USA was not victorious against Japan ( Read more... )

Let me begin by saying that I am not a Harry Potter super fan. I don't know the books like the back of my hand.

Don't get me wrong: I love those books. I started reading them some time in high school. I think either three or four books had already been published, and I once I started reading it took maybe a week to finish and I loved it. I loved the ( Read more... )

Hey, all. Ever wondered about the world of happiness? Or how others experience happiness around the world? Then check out my new review of the book The Geography Of Bliss by Eric Weiner.

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I was originally going to write my next review of Xena, but I got a The Reader in the mail from Netflix today and, having finished it, felt the urge to write about it.

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I've been wanting to write a comprehensive blog post about Xena for a long time now. Probably since I finished watching the show in late June. But there's so much to say about it and I'm way too lazy to go back and write an episode by episode review. I could handle the 72 or so episodes of BSG but Xena was six full seasons of at least 22 episodes. ( Read more... )

I just finished watching Encounters At The End Of The World, a documentary by Werner Herzog about Antarctica and the people who live there. Really great, totally recommend it. There's several times I nearly cried because when I see a film about a place like Antarctica, I become astounded by the diversity of Earth. The geographical diversity, the ( Read more... )

For the last three days, the third hour and sixth hour sociology classes I'm a part of at my high school have been watching the movie Philadelphia. You know, that movie from 1993 starring Denzel Washington as a homophobic lawyer who defends a gay man with AIDS after he was fired from his job for being sick?

I'd never seen it before and, honestly, I ( Read more... )