Would you feel at ease at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport if any number of law-abiding travelers (or employees) were allowed to carry firearms on their persons?
Mayor Shirley Franklin doesn’t think so and neither does airport manager Ben DeCosta.
Although I prefer daggers, swords, and knives to guns, I’ve nothing against firearms themselves as weapons of minor or [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Other on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Years ago, before Google, iPods, wi-fi, and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter were born, I drove by my high school one night and a baseball game was in progress. I pulled into the parking lot and sat in my car admiring the American Dream unfolding in front of my eyes. It was a remarkable sight indeed, [...]
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Bulldogs against Bulldogs but it wasn’t UGA that took the College World Series title.
Fresno State did. Click here for the details.
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In case you didn’t know, the University of Georgia used to have a different school song…way back when (1908 to be exact). It was called “Red and Black March” and was written by R. E. [...]
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Harlequins and mimes are fine. But Clowns? No way. Pas du tout. Niet. Nyet.
I was browsing the boards at IMDB’s entry for Lucio Fulci’s film The House by the Cemetery (1981) and came across a link to this blog called KinderTrauma. It’s a scream. It’s brilliant. What better way to overcome those panic attacks and [...]
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Posted in Football, Other on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
….so life has given me pause at red lights and merging lanes. I swing my head right and left, amazed that the tar-pit buggy to my right doesn’t realize that it’s not going fast enough to move ahead of me and not nearly slow enough to get behind me. I have only two choices, [...]
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Posted in Films, Other, tagged Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg, Never Back Down, The Happening, The Incredible Hulk, Zooey Deschanel on June 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I saw The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 200eight) and The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier, 200eight) on Friday and Saturday respectively. I reviewed the former for Filmthreat. It’s not a very long piece, so I’m copying and pasting it below. I gave it three out of five stars:
Minor spoilage!
In a virtually packed AMC [...]
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Allison Van Dusen of Forbes.com has the following to report about the top ten most dangerous sports:
The numbers show, surprisingly, that of all the activities you might participate in this summer, or throughout the rest of the year, basketball had the highest estimated number of injuries, with more than 529,000 during 2006, followed by bicycling, [...]
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Posted in Films, Football, Other, tagged Allan Graf, Dreamworks, Ernie Davis, Jack Black, Kungfu Panda, Syracuse University, The Express on June 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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I watched Kungfu Panda (Mark Osborne & John Stevenson, 200eight) today. This Dreamworks Animation platter was superbly done on all levels: music, animation, script, voice-overing.
I thought it was pretty clever to have some of the main characters’ names be the Chinese (Mandarin pronunciation) word for that particular role or animal. For example, [...]
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Producer, actor, and director Sydney Pollack has been fighting cancer for nearly a year and is now on to a separate peace.
With George Clooney on the set of Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007).
Pollack was one of the executive producers of Leatherheads.
He did good work. His creativity will be missed. View more about him here, here, [...]
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Posted in Football, Other on May 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Next installment of non-fiction infused fiction.
Emily sat across her uncle at the kitchen table, clasping a cold cup of sweet tea and staring at the lemon slice balancing atop the rim of the glass. After hearing Uncle Flint slurp from his mug a fifth time, Emily broke the otherwise comfortable quiet between them.
“Ever find out [...]
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