Archive for September, 2009
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Monday, September 21st, 2009Halloween is one of the biggest holidays of the year. When adults get to have as much fun dressing up as kids do. Maybe even more. People spend huge amounts of money and time on their costumes. One year I went all out and decided to make a halloween costume that would be the perfect [...]
A really good round of Golf
Friday, September 18th, 2009Some days just feel bad. You’re tired, sore, probably overworked. You just want to sit home and relax. But you promised you’d play golf. A charity event no less. So you have to go. Even though you have no clubs and need to borrow your brothers clubs. Sore wrist = $65 doctor visitday off of [...]
Movie Preview: Surrogates
Thursday, September 17th, 2009What if you were to take the themes of WestWorld and The Matrix, add in a waldo (not the character) and some I Robot (the book not the substandard movie), what might you get? Well these are likely sources that helped to create Surrogates. The concept is hardly new. We have a world of luxury, [...]
Movie Preview: Zombieland
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Sometimes you just want to go to a movie and be completely distracted from reality. Those types of movies that acheieve this distraction the best tend to never win Oscar’s or anything else. But at their best they are like what some call comfort foods. They satiate out need for visual fluff, and that’s it. [...]
Is TIME hypocritical, or is Glenn Beck the problem?
Thursday, September 17th, 2009In as much as politics is entertainment these days, I want to discuss news commentators and the news media. I was motivated to do so by an article in TIME online. They were discussing Glenn Beck. Yeah, that guy. For those that hate FOX News, and/or anything to the right, I ask you to keep [...]
Kanye, it's not a vacation
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009I once had a client, back when I was a stockbroker, who owned a very bad stock. The stock in question was bought, unsolicited, at .16 cents, and had rocketed to $22 over several days (though we did get to sell more than a bit at $18). Then it got halted. My client asked my [...]
Movie Review: Gamer
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009First there was Rollerball (the original) then came The Running Man. Add in a bit of Resident Evil (at least how it plays off of it’s video game origins) and when you mix it all up you get Gamer. Well a handfull of hallucinogens helps too. Perhaps its the fact that I’m a bit older [...]
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