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The Rocker – A Movie Review
Within the first ten minutes, the creators of The Rocker make it readily apparent after Rainn Wilson punctures the top of a van with his drumsticks that you better relax and take this movie for what it is – a nonsensical farce attacking rock band cliché after cliché and offering a few catchy songs in…
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The Easter Parade by Richard Yates – A Book Review
In The Easter Parade, Richard Yates delivers a well-crafted and well-written novel with the bluntness and mercy of a rusty scalpel. Yates allows us to follow the life of Emily Grimes all the way from childhood into her fifties. Her mother is a reckless, distracted woman who divorced Emily’s father when Emily was just a…
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Y: The Last Man: Whys and Wherefores by Brian K. Vaughan – A Graphic Novel Review
This final installment to the Y: The Last Man series left me both unsatisfied and disappointed. Y: The Last Man started out as a fantastic series. It was a high concept with excellent characterization and an epic, fascinating plot. But, as the series wore on, it lost steam. I assumed this was the lull before…
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Baby Emma By Aunt Dixie
Several weeks ago we received a mysterious package in the mail. I saw it came from my Aunt Dixie, a very talented artist who deserves far more recognition than she’s getting. I opened it, and my heart just melted. Aunt Dixie had drawn a portrait of our daughter based upon the Christmas cards we sent…
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The LOST X-Man: A Brief Comparative Study of Wolverine and Sawyer
As a connoisseur of all things unimportant, I recently contemplated the similarities between The X-Men’s Wolverine and LOST’s Sawyer. Here’s what I came up with: Both men were born with the name James. Both men have a predilection for beer. Both men took the name of his father’s killer as an alias. Both men think…
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Appaloosa – A Movie Review
This western directed by Ed Harris stars both he and Viggo Mortensen. It also costars Renee Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. I remember aching to get to the theater to see Appaloosa when it came out and really regretting I never made it. So when I finally got around to watching it on DVD, I had…
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Peter and the Wolf by Chris Raschka – A Book Review
This children’s book is based upon the original work of Sergei Prokofiev. In it, Raschka creates three-dimensional images placed upon a miniature stage to illustrate the events of the story. If you are unfamiliar with Prokofiev’s original version, I don’t see you enjoying this book.
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