The Eagle & Child

I handed in a paper today, one which has been looming over my semester, bogging me down, for several weeks now. Contrary to what I had expected, the “loominosity” hasn’t lifted.  This might be because the paper was fairly open-ended, so I had to set boundaries to it which seemed somewhat arbitrary to me.  It [...]

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Around junior high, The Three Amigos was one of my favourite movies (along with Uncle Buck and The Great Outdoors).  It’s a classic slapstick comedy starring Martin Short, Chevy Chase and Steve Martin (who, Dixie notes, would have been the Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell of that day).  I could quote it nearly [...]

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Dixie and I had a date night planned for tonight. Our first date in a couple of months. We got babysitters for the kids and were planning on an evening out: dinner and a movie. We managed to have the dinner. Then we drove to the movie theatre to see Clint Eastwood’s new film, Gran [...]

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My favourite moment in Evan Almighty, in which God (Morgan Freeman) tells Evan Baxter (Steve Carrell in a reprise of his Bruce Almighty role) to build an ark.  Early on in the film, Evan is obsessed with his career, so his wife prays for the family to become closer.  Soon after God’s call to Evan, however, [...]

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Hey, thanks for showing up for the movie, nobody. I kid.  I announced my attendance at the the-yay-ter too late in the day for anyone to notice. Well, what of Appaloosa?  I’m trying to decide what to rate it, so I’m looking through my archives to see what I’ve rated the other westerns I’ve seen [...]

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