I hate best-of lists. Loathe them. Which is why when I compile my year-end list of movies, I simply pick the flicks I enjoyed the most, the ones I would highly recommend to people, and then lump them together into one unsorted group. Perhaps you agree. Perhaps not. I care not, because this is just [...]
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There’s nothing more to say. Honestly. With 40 days until the election, we’ve all heard everything we could possibly hear about the two presidential candidates: incumbent Democrat Barack Obama and challenger Republican Mitt Romney. Of course, this isn’t entirely true: nearly a month and a half is plenty of time for more revelations about how [...]
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We’re still only four years removed from the cataclysmic financial meltdown that nearly destroyed the entire global economy, so it shouldn’t be surprising that there have only been a handful of movies so far that address this timely topic. The best Vietnam War movies came out in the late 70s-slash-early 80s — Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, [...]
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We can’t have any political conversations anymore without them immediately devolving into hyperbolic, apocalyptic catchphrases that instantly render the person on the other side of the discussion defensive. Just pick your talking point: War on __________ Worse than (insert traumatic event here) _______ is the end of freedom as we know it … the destruction [...]
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I‘ve had the disc for months now. It’s just been sitting on top of the Blu-ray player waiting for me to be in the right mood since obviously it wasn’t going to be a real uplifter. Now, just days after the tragic Aurora movie theater shooting, I thought, maybe, now was the right time. Rather [...]
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Now that I’m working from home most of the week as a consultant, I decided it was time to make my workspace exactly how I wanted it. And that meant jumping aboard the latest office rage (if there can be anything of the sort): the standing desk. Really quick: why a standing desk? For a [...]
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