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2010 Movies (Highlights Only)
NEW:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
In Bruges
Ran
The Shop Around the Corner
The Killing
The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton short)
SEEN BEFORE BUT STILL AWESOME:
The Lion in Winter
Dr. Horrible's Sinaglong Blog
The Sting
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Up in the Air
Back to the Future
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
SEEN BEFORE BUT NOT SINCE I WAS ABOUT TEN AND IT'S STILL ( Read more... ) -
Books Read in 2010
It's been a great year for reading...
NOVELSCorelli's Mandolin, by Louis De Bernieres - TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR ( Read more... ) -
Things Learned in the Last 24 Hours
1. It's illegal to pump your own gas in Oregon ( Read more... ) -
CouchSurfing Adventures
You find awesome coffee shops in the most unexpected of places. I am in Carson City, Nevada, at a place called Comma Coffee ( Read more... ) -
Congratulations to Dan and Eugene
Dan was one of my best friends in Chicago during grad school. When we first started hanging out, she'd say things that would make me think, "this person is obviously completely insane," but also "this particular insanity sounds eerily similar to something my friend Eugene would say ( Read more... ) -
Food stuff goals!
I have pledged to cook something new every day of April ( Read more... ) -
On the Road Again
The Rogue was amazing, but afterwards, I didn't feel like doing anything except going home. I was done with the road trip. I could have handled another week in Fresno, honestly, but I wasn't up for new adventures in new cities. I completely changed my itinerary and took the shortest route home, skipping northern Nevada and the Loneliest Road and ( Read more... ) -
Cynic at the Fresno Rogue: Performergasm
Wow. Rogue turn-out has been incredible this year. My opening night was nearly full, as was my next evening performance (the Sunday matinee didn't do quite so well, but that's to be expected ( Read more... ) -
San Luis Obispo
Why have I not been here before? Why have you not been here before, if you haven't? Why don't we all live here? It's awesome. Super-bikeable, beautiful, and the weekly farmer's market is basically a street fair. They close down several blocks of the main street every Thursday night from 6 to 9, and there's live music (different bands on every block ( Read more... ) -
Los Angeles
Did you know that L.A. is a great place for hiking? I never would have suspected. And the traffic was not as bad as I expected. Granted, I expected it to be unfathomably awful, so I was pleasantly surprised every time I managed to get above 10 mph. The only time I got really irritated was when I'd make a wrong turn, and getting back on track would ( Read more... )