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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

I saw Harry Potter 6 last night, and I really enjoyed it. 3.5 stars from me. I mean, it was still a Harry Potter movie, meaning that it wasn't exactly High Cinema, but I was really impressed that it felt more like a movie to me than a Harry Potter movie. Does that make sense? I mean, the movie was good enough to stand on its own feet instead of having to rely on people having read the book or seen the others. The Quidditch scene, for example, was about character first and Quidditch third or four

The IT Crowd and Michael Jackson + Freddie Mercury

Not much time today to post, but I wanted to give a shout out to one of my new favorite comedies: The IT Crowd. It's a British sitcom about an IT department at a business firm, and it's pretty much hilarious. DKC and I have been having a great time watching the first two series on Netflix streaming. Not sure how available it is if you're not a Netflixer, but it's worth tracking down. Very funny stuff.

And because I thought these were cool, here's an unreleased Michael Jackson/Freddie Mercury duet

Review: Lord of Chaos

Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is another book in the series that I had to change my rating for. By memory, I had given it three stars, but now having read it again, I changed that to a four star review--really more of a four and a half star book for me. Why had I rated it three stars to begin with? Likely because it suffered from what I refer to as the I-State Syndrome. You know--Indiana, Illinois, Iowa. Everybody knows they're there, but unless you grew up there o

South Pacific and Racism

DKC and I spent 2 hours and 47 minutes of our lives yesterday to watch South Pacific, the classic Rogers and Hammerstein production done back in 1958. If you're into classic movie musicals, then you've no doubt seen this one. If you're not, then you probably have little desire to watch it. I'll say this much: I enjoyed the film, but parts of it really dragged, and I felt like the characters were severely underdeveloped in most cases. Still, the music saves it and earns it its 3 star rating.

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The Trouble with Taking a Week Off

Is that you have a week's worth of work waiting for you when you come back. Sigh. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have a bit to write out a good blog entry. Today, I'll be lucky to keep my sanity.

Adventures at Sesame Place

Just got back from Sesame Place, a theme park over by our mall here in PA. Why they chose to put it over here by the mall is beyond me, but we like it--some really fun water rides. TRC had a blast. It was also rather strange, since part of the climax of Pawn of the Dead (my latest book) takes place there. I'm happy to report that today's outing was completely zombie free. Of course, I also found out that they've redone a lot of the park, which invalidates a lot of my descriptions from that scene

Test Post from My iPhone

So I found this app for posting pics from my iPhone to my blog--thought I'd give it a try.

Adventures in Chuck E. Cheese

I've seen the ads. And I've done my best to convince my son that the place is a waste of money, but my efforts were all in vain. Today we went to Chuck E. Cheese's, and I have to say that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, it was much better. TRC had a total blast, as did DC. They got to play all the video games, eat pizza and drink soda. What could be better? If we had one within a reasonable distance from our place in Maine, I might even go again sometime. So there's an endors

Mind Fatigue

Any idea why it's always the last bit of something that takes the longest? The last hour of a long drive, the last ten minutes of a boring movie--the last day before a long vacation. I'm tired, and I want to be gone. Just 40 minutes left until I'm done with work, at least. It's been a long week, which makes little sense--since it only had 4 days. Oh well. I'll be on the road tomorrow--have a nice weekend, all, and I'll post again next week.

Movie Reviews: Gran Turino and Taken

Watched a couple of excellent films yesterday and the day before. Actually, I've still been watching as many as usual--just haven't been reviewing them. Too busy with other stuff. But these were both very well done, so I wanted to make sure to get to them.

Gran Turino is Clint Eastwood's latest drama, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Four stars (although I've talked to some people who really disliked the ending--it worked for me, is all I'll say). The movie's about an old Korean War vet living in an