Juliet, Naked

A friend of mine from college, upon seeing my home bedroom for the first time, decorated as it was with Beatles posters and books and CDs and proudly displayed pictures of me at Abbey Road and in Liverpool, told me this: “I knew you liked the Beatles, but you’ve got it bad…”
It shouldn’t be too [...]

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Everyone’s a critic

My dad used to watch At the Movies with Siskel and Ebert when I was a kid. So I did too. All the time. I remember once in high school telling another classmate – I don’t remember who because I didn’t know them very well – that they shouldn’t see the movie they wanted to [...]

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You Don’t Know What It’s Like to Listen to Your Fears

I played the entire game over the better part of five hours. It was well-made and accurate enough to please any true Beatles fan, intimate with every detail of their career. Playing a song well allows you to unlock Beatles photographs, and before songs there is Beatle chatter from between studio takes.

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It’s all in the attitude

We returned from our brief vacation on Saturday, but when I requested time off from work, I also requested today off because, well, I don’t like working on my birthday! Shaun took the day off too, and we went to a matinee. We go to a movie every year on my birthday, though by the [...]

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Trackside Pizza – Puyallup

Occasionally I like to look at the stats for this blog to see what kind of traffic it is getting. Mostly it’s friends and classmates, but I’ve noticed a trend in the search stats. There is almost always a new hit from someone who has searched for Sonic Puyallup. (Referring to this post.)
I remember [...]

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The Curious Cases of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — 3 stars (out of 4)
No, that’s not a typo in the title, I would never do such a thing! I am actually referring to both the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. When I first [...]

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Eureka!

I hate to get all Andy Rooney on you here, but I have a pet peeve I need to express. Why must vacuum cleaners suck so much? (And not in the good way, where they would actually suck up dirt from the floor.) And who’s idea was it for a bagless vacuum anyway?
Last year, when [...]

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Sonic the Drive-In

 The first I had ever heard of a White Castle was when Harold and Kumar went there. We don’t have White Castles ’round these parts. Nor do we have In ‘N Out Burgers nor Carl’s Jrs. And that’s just fine by me. So interested was I in a White Castle after Harold and Kumar that [...]

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It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it…

One thing that I like to make prominently clear about myself is that I do not like science fiction or fantasy. And while I have never and will never see the Lord of the Rings, my disdain for the genres actually comes from experience. My mother is and always was a real sci-fi geek and [...]

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From fascinating to forgettable

Then there’s a fourth type of movie: The Fascinating Film. Fascinating films are the ones that you watch over and over again, usually when you accidentally pass by them on cable, only because you can’t stop. I have a few of these.

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