• 9.0 Run Lola Run

    9.0 Run Lola Run

    Great pacing backed up by a nice time-sliced plot. Exhilirating! “What’s in the...

  • 9.0 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

    9.0 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

    The Deathly Hallows was a big hit with us, and Wren and Savannah perfected their butterbeer recipe and shared with us all to celebrate!...

  • 9.5 Blazing Saddles

    9.5 Blazing Saddles

    Re-watched this old classic recently with boo, we were bustin’ a gut… it’s so hard to find stuff this brilliant any more… must have single-handedly made the word “nigger” laughable and irrelevant… big comic book larger-than-life laughs on a budget that was...

  • 9.5 North By Northwest

    9.5 North By Northwest

    Cary Grant is the definition of style in this Hitchcock classic. He’s Mr. Average, until he’s ensnared in a complicated plot of espionage. But incompetent lawmen, incessant misfortune – even the outright sinister plotting of his enemies – merely annoy him, highlighting how...

  • 9.5 Downton Abbey

    9.5 Downton Abbey

    has all of us just lit up with glee. Yet another cruel year of waiting for a TV show, hurry up Season...

  • 9.5 Beastie Boys: Make Some Noise

    Yes I am a Beastie Boys fanboy. As Johnny Cash said so well, “until you know my shame you really don’t know me”. I grew up on New Jersey playgrounds, cursing (not “cussing”, that’s what rednecks in FL did) my head off since I was ten. To me, my brother’s...

  • 4.0 Junk Science

    This book proposes an interesting premise – in corporate-owned capitalist America, we all know we’re constantly bombarded with deceptive exaggerations and even bold-faced lies. When the lies are packaged as “scientific expertise”, a(nother) rather fat ethical line is...

  • 8.0 The Village

    8.0 The Village

    From the “red sleastacks” dept… This was fun. We went in with low expectations – thrillers are definitely not our film genre of choice – and spent the first few minutes snickering. But we were pulled into the yarn of this creepy fairytale and had a good time with it....

  • Jan
  • 22
  • 2003

Wrenny Surpasses Toddler Status!

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Wrenny’s coming up on four on the 25th (WOW!), and the grandparents are converging! My folks will be here soon for a couple of weeks (wahooo!), and Grammie of course couldn’t miss the big day. GG’s coming along with her, so we will have four generations of fun! Yipee!

  • Jan
  • 16
  • 2003

Payola Payback

If you’ve bought a CD from 1995-2000, you paid too much, but you already knew that. You might just get $20 or so back straight from the Man with this class action lawsuit, if you go sign up here. Wow.

  • Dec
  • 26
  • 2002

Christmas booty

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Andrea went crazy getting this for me! But I love it!
Weird thing is, she’s already got it mastered – what secret is she hiding? :>

Hope everyone had a blessed Christmas holiday!

  • Dec
  • 20
  • 2002

ABB bounce

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The big ABB move! We are now on the NC State University campus, whoooop!

1021 Main Campus Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606-5200
919-856-2360

  • Nov
  • 09
  • 2002

Happy Halloween!

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  • Nov
  • 06
  • 2002

Republicans take over…

OK, y’all, git yer guns, we’re going to war with anybody that screws with our oil supply! No high school diploma required (y’all just leave that edumacation stuff to the rich, now)…

Then hold on to them guns, you can use ‘em to take one last potshot at the United Corporations of America just before they steamroll ya…

Why are the American people so easily duped? < *sigh*>

  • Oct
  • 28
  • 2002

Niki’s Pics

My niece Niki asked me to put up some pics of her recent adventures (Warning: some of the halloween costumes are R-rated). We haven’t seen the Florida gang in FAR TOO LONG!

  • Oct
  • 08
  • 2002

DRM

My friend Erik got excited recently when he heard that BestBuy will offer downloadable songs for $1. I couldn’t disagree more…

  • Sep
  • 23
  • 2002

Dreamin’…

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Got up this morning with Reiley and we went downstairs to have breakfast. While we were eating our Cheerios, I just happened to ask her if she had any dreams, expecting her to say no. She looked up at me with a crooked smile and emphatically said “Yes!” And it was a hilarious one. She was in the snow, and there were snow worms chasing her. She said they weren’t too big, and reminded her of icicles. She was outside and it was snowing, and saw something white with spots that was shaped like a jaguar. She saw giraffes as well. She ate some snow, “but it was WARM!” Then it seemed like she was inside, on a couch, and the snow worms were still following her, jumping onto a couch pillow she held. She said she wasn’t that scared of them, they couldn’t bite her, they just kept FOLLOWING her!

She asked me if I had had a dream. The only bit I could remember was Wren and Reiley playing on a dirty beach, and trying to get a bunch of people organized to get to the same place in three different cars, but no one was communicating so I knew we’d all get lost.

We concluded that brains sure get all kooky while you are sleeping. :P

  • Sep
  • 22
  • 2002

Septemberfest

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The town of Holly Springs hosted a Septemberfest festival that we all went to today. The kids had a good time riding on the inflatable rides, climbing the rock wall, and eating snow cones.