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12 years ago @ The Heritage Foundry - Ashton Kutcher and the... · 0 replies · +1 points

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM

3 minute clip about that exact thing. As you say... it's how it's always been.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - NBC's 'Grimm' Recycles... · 0 replies · +2 points

The correct abbreviation for the name Hoban Washburne" is "Wash" not "Hoban." http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003808/

/nerd

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Totally agree that the werewolf is the best character. I actually stopped watching the show after 3 or 4 episodes. it was all right, I suppose, but I have other things I prefer to watching tv, so unless a show is "OMG Awesome" (like Castle) then I generally don't stick with it anymore.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Tuesday Open Thread: S... · 0 replies · +3 points

Another excellent book that delves into the origins of slavery in the Americas is 1493 by Charles C Mann. Fascinating stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncovering-World-Colum...

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Hunger Games' Book Tr... · 2 replies · +2 points

Don't forget David Brin's The Postman that didn't have any justice done to it when it was turned into a movie.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - BH Interview: Adam Bal... · 0 replies · +2 points

Chuck really lost me during the 3rd season. I absolutely loved seasons 1 and 2, but in the 3rd season it seemed like the Chuck character got too angsty for me to relate to. Beyond that, the plot of every episode seemed to follow the formula of "Chuck finds something out/gets into a bad situation, refuses to tell Sarah thinking she'll hate him for it when there's actually no possible way she'd hate him for the information/situation, though the idiotic and pathetic attempt at covering it up are another thing entirely, Sarah finds out anyway, Sarah enlists Casey to help and they fix the problem in spite of Chuck's bumbling incompetence, Sarah is surprised he thought she'd hate him for the information/situation and freely forgives him his pathetic attempts at a coverup. Casey stoically fades into the background. Fin"

I can deal with that formula once or twice a season and overlook it, but when it becomes every episode? Not so much. As much as I love Jayne Cobb, er, Adam Baldwin, and as nice as Ms. Strahovski is to look at. . . it couldn't keep me watching. I don't know that I'll ever watch seasons 4 and 5 on DVD/streaming either. The show simply lost me. And I feel kinda bad about that, since I wanted to continue to love it as much as I did in the 1st 2 seasons. Such is life.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Napoleon Dynamite' St... · 0 replies · +3 points

Dew 1st, DrP only if I can't get Dew.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Adam Carolla Defends M... · 1 reply · +3 points

I grew up around a lot of rich folks in the NW Chicago suburbs. I never knew they had money unless or until my dad told me, and if he ever did it was to hold them up as examples of people I should emulate -- not for their riches, but for the fact that they were kind and generous people and they used what they had to do good and to make the world around them a better place.

I had no idea how wealthy they were becuz they didn't live like "the rich." They had sufficient for their needs and lived like that, and the rest they gave to charity or invested back into their businesses so they could employ more people and so forth. They're simply some of the best people I've ever had the fortune to know, and their having money allowed them to be better since they could do more.

I was unemployed for a year or so ago and in one of the career workshops I went to, the focus was always on "get the best job you can, don't settle" and the reasoning was: The better your job, the more you can give to charity or use to better your fellow man's circumstances."

As a result of all this, I've always seen "the rich" as people to emulate and to try to become, not as evil, greedy misers.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Daily Call Sheet: Bane... · 1 reply · +6 points

Had? In the episode of Grimm she guest starred in a few weeks ago I'd still rate her as a "has."

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Daily Call Sheet: Bane... · 1 reply · +3 points

I like both, but I definitely prefer B5.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Tucker and Dale vs. E... · 0 replies · +2 points

My wife and I watched it on the Amazon streaming service and both laughed our asses off. Simply hilarious!

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