Month: May 2008
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Original Art for the Baby
Talented and award-winning artist Dixie Petticrew (and my aunt) created the below picture as a gift to our little girl. Kristen and I absolutely adore it! We have several pieces of art by Aunt Dixie throughout our house, but this one is by far our favorite for obvious reasons. If you enlarge the picture by clicking…
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Feeling Satisfied After LOST
Last night the fourth season of LOST wrapped up and it left me feeling intensely satisfied. It is inarguably clear that the writers now have an end-goal in sight and are steadily working towards it. I’ll admit, in earlier seasons, they played it pretty fast and loose with previous plot elements and characters. That didn’t…
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Chabon Writes about Superhero Unitards
Being a regular kind of dude, I have to admit I’m not a frequent (or even infrequent) consumer of The New Yorker. However, last week I read several notices and received a few emails informing me that The New Yorker had published an article focusing on two of my favorite literary subjects: Michael Chabon and…
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Iron Man – A Movie Review
You don’t need me to tell you this movie has been warmly received by the masses, and for good reason. When I first saw the trailer many months ago, I knew this movie would be the Iron Man I wanted. I wasn’t sure it’d be a hit with the general public, but I was fairly…