cyberhobo

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  • Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep

    This film combines some fabulous elements, but doesn’t quite pull it off with full satisfaction. Elvis and JFK find themselves stuck as patients in an East Texas rest home, where they face off with a soul-sucking mummy feeding on the helpless old farts. The fact that it manages to provide even a little human insight…

  • Greyrock

    We felt we were long overdue for an overnight, and a climbing outing. The fact that we see the 700-foot granite face of Greyrock when we look out our window must have influenced both of us, because we both suggested it as a destination for the weekend at the same time. We didn’t really consider…

  • Movie: Serial Mom

    It was fun to introduce this gem to Ann. This one of the few movies that inspired me to write a review in my early Netflix days: Kathleen Turner is unbelievable in this role. A very satisfying sick treat. She almost had me chanting, kill, kill, kill! (50 people found this review helpful.)

  • Veggies

    Our share of Colorado State University’s community shared agriculture plan is providing us with an increasing cornucopia of organic vegetables and flowers. We get varieties you never see in the store, like Cosmic Purple Carrots. The colors alone are a feast.

  • Movie: King Rat (1965)

    It’s been a long time since I read King Rat, but this seemed like a very subtle and well-crafted screenplay of it. Like the book Shantung Compound, this story of the prisoners of a Japanese POW camp in China uses the intense competition for scarce resources in such a place to illustrate the often harsh…

  • Movie: The Two Towers (Extended Version)

    This was the episode that disappointed me most in the theatre because I thought story changes did injustice to some of the characters, especially Faramir and Treebeard. Even the title has a completely different meaning, with the two towers as allies instead of competitors for the ring. In the extended version the extra character development…

  • Show: Summer Lovin’ at Heritage Square Music Hall

    We’d been informed that we all had tickets to a “surprise show” for my Dad’s birthday. As we approached the decrepit old Heritage Square amusement park with it’s vaudeville-style music hall we braced for the worst, but ended up having a pretty good time. Drinks were served, which is key for this venue. The show…

  • Wedding: Jason & Laurie

    I rouse myself painfully early from my spot on the floor of Kim & Toby’s new house, the site of Pete’s going away party. Some breakfast and coffee at the Watercourse revive me, and I head northwest into the mountains to meet Ann at the Shoshoni Yoga Retreat where our friends Jason & Lauri are…

  • Farewell Pete

    Pete‘s going away party is one of those gatherings that attracts people I haven’t seen in years. I stay up too late and reconnect with some friends, but I’ve never been good at saying goodbye. I just can’t make the realization hit me – it always comes after they’re gone.

  • Movie: Donnie Darko (The Director’s Cut)

    I saw echoes of Heathers in this dark commentary on high school angst. The characters here have more depth, and they tackle hairier philosophical issues, but ultimately I found the premise of their motivations and behavoir an unbelievable and unsatisfying argument against free will. Still, there are parallel universes, a sexy censored schoolteacher, a hypocritical…