4 weeks ago Monday, April 22 is Earth Day. In full disclosure, I am a tree hugger and proud of it. Every day I look around and see how much more I could be doing. I see what we all could be doing. But here are some easy ways to take it easy on Mother Earth. Even my ShadowDog is getting in the mood with his new Earth Day collar. He likes nature.
5 weeks ago As I watch the manhunt continue on TV in my Red Sox hoodie on 'Wear Boston' Day, I ask myself what I can do to help? I’m not an EMT, I don’t even know CPR. Then it hit me, I could donate blood and to be brutally honest, I never have. I attempted to give once, but got too scared go through with it.
5 weeks ago Before you read further, know that I am not a journalist nor do I claim to be and I'm also like everyone else, still saddened by what happened in Boston on Monday. I am however a little perturbed at how the story was covered by the national media both TV and in print.
April 17, 2013 It was on this day or very close to this day in mid-April back in 1997 that I bought my first car. It was a 1994 Suzuki Swift. The car, named “Betty Lou”, was a white three-cylinder four-door sedan. Not a muscle car by any stretch of the imagination, but it did get me from place to place. Bought it with 60 some odd thousand miles on it and junked it at about 134K.
April 16, 2013 Our summer vacation this year is a trip to Halifax, where I was raised for a few days, then we’re off to Edmundston, New Brunswick. We’re bringing my mother in-law and she is a first timer to Halifax. We’ll probably check out Peggy’s Cove, the downtown waterfront and drive by all of the places that meant something to me. For example my old schools, my childhood home, maybe a few work places too.
April 16, 2013 You know this story isn't about a place in Millinocket, Bangor, Waterville, Augusta or even Lewiston. Nobody rich enough ever visits those places. No, this story is about a place in Kennebunk (or as those in 'the other Maine' call it, Kenny-bunk. That's right tv news channels 6, 8 and 13...I'm talkin' 'bout you!)....
April 15, 2013 Now that the news of today’s tragedy in Boston is starting to sink in it’s apparent that it was a bomb of some sort. As I write this two people are confirmed dead and dozens are injured. It was a cowardly senseless act. For updates today you can visit our website for information.
My disdain of the 'Scary Movie' franchise came early. I distinctly recall seeing the 'Scary Movie 2' poster, which featured Kathleen Robertson wearing a t-shirt that says "I See Dead People." This isn't a joke. It's just a reference. It isn't clever, it isn't witty - it's just saying a thing from another movie. It's not funny.
Almost 10 years later, 'Scary Movie 5' still suffers from this debilitating problem. There is absolutely nothing funny about going 'Inception'-style into Christian Grey's S&M room and having Mike Tyson show up. Yet, if you are somehow able to ignore the lowest common denominator pop culture appearances (I hesitate to even call them jokes) there are a great number of truly amusing gags and examples of rapid fire dialogue zings. Put bluntly: when the film is freed from the shackles of its referencing mandate, there's some good, dopey humor in here. Much to my surprise, I laughed out loud a good half-dozen times.
After trying his hand at science-fiction, winning an Oscar, and testing himself with a one-actor film about a dude with his hand stuck under a rock, director Danny Boyle returns to familiar territory with 'Trance': the lives of scheming, feuding thieves. When Boyle makes movies about criminals, he rarely focuses on their crimes to look instead at their fallout -- these are what we might call "after-the-heist films." The heist, in a Boyle movie, is the easy part. It's living with yourself, and your accomplices that's hard.
April 10, 2013 Getting older sucks.
It starts when you get out of school and never stops. I'm talking about the ever-quickening pace of time and, as time sails past, so do the days of excellent health and carefree living. What I wouldn't give to be the age that my mind feels I am. 12.
