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Movie: Capote (2005)
A well done tragedy, with good attention to detail and an impressive performance by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I haven’t read In Cold Blood, but the film seemed adept at telling that story through the story of how it was written, which supplies a bit of a biography of Capote in the process. Ann has read…
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RV Park Rainbow
The rainy season has finally hit Fort Collins, and with it some good sky drama. I dashed up to the roof of the RV to take these as a storm passed at sunset. I’ve been too lazy to make panoramas lately, but I was excited to discover autostitch, which makes it easy. The detail at…
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Geo Mashup WordPress Plugin Release 0.4
The move to Google Maps API version 2 is the motivator for this release, since Google will eventually turn off version 1. The API has also removed the XSLT functionality I was using to render the post in the infowindow. I suspected this functionality was causing some of the loading problems people have experienced too,…
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Movie: Monsiuer Ibrahim (2003)
Probably just because it’s a coming of age flick I thought of Scent of A Woman after watching this. Only the kid is the dour, promiscuous one, the women are smiling, motherly prostitutes, and the outlook is Parisian, with life flowing in an endless cycle of shoplifted sardines, books of true wisdom, diluted Beaujolais, and…
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Movie: They Live (1988)
The saving grace of this film is its portrayal of the media. When “Rowdy” Roddy Piper’s character puts on the sunglasses of truth, billboards, TV, magazines, signs, and papers show their true messages in black and white: “OBEY”, “BUY”, “CONSUME”, “WATCH TV”, “MARRY AND REPRODUCE”, etc. And the movers and shakers of society are revealed…
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El Slabbo and Chair Rocks Hike
We set out with my dad to scout the climbing in the Cathedral Spires area. To our dismay, a Jefferson County Open Space sign at the trailhead declared the entire area closed from March 1 to July 31 (for Peregrine Falcon nesting, I later found out). We went looking for the Top of the World…
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My Mom the Professional Blogger!
I’m proud that after introducing my mom to blogging, she took to it with the same passion that fuels her many creative endeavors. She turned to her blog as a form of therapy when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her blog attracted some attention, and when the Health Central Breast Cancer Site discovered it,…
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Boudering Pics
For those who found fault with Sean’s earlier pictures of me bouldering, try these.
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It’s getting really pretty at Rotary
I drop Ann off at a trailhead at the base of the foothills, then drive up to Rotary Park to meet Sean. We boulder for awhile, stopping often to admire the setting. There are these bushes in bloom – not lilacs but similar – just going nuts right now. Combine it with the sunset and…
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Movie: In America (2002)
A modern story of Irish immigrants in New York, this movie is really about coping with the loss of a child in a family. It’s clearly a deeply personal, autobiographical film, that presents its insights slowly, intimately, and honestly. For someone without children it serves to illustrate some of the forces that create families and…