Terri It takes courage to be yourself when others want you to change, and it take courage to change when you realize that you’re no longer the same person you used to be. Terri is a story about an obese teen who also isn’t easily accepted. However, since Terri (Jacob Wysocki) wears nothing but pajamas…
Big Fan Sports fans are everywhere. If you’re going to make a movie centered around sports, you’d better get it right. If you’re going to make a movie centered around the NFL, you really better get it right because no sport is more scrutinized here in America. Well, maybe wrestling, but that’s not a sport.…
Wow. Five days in beautiful, downtown Champaign, Illinois. Too many commas there, and too many restaurants instead of home-cooked meals. I’m sure I gained a few pounds, but it was worth it. For those of you who aren’t aware of film critic Roger Ebert, this is the 14th year in which he has held his…
So, like last time, you can put your caption here as a comment. But better yet is to click on the picture, go to the New Yorker magazine website, and enter your caption in their contest. And don’t forget to vote on entries from two weeks ago. http://contest.newyorker.com/CaptionContest.aspx?tab=vote Meanwhile, get on with your creative bad self and…
normally, this would be posted on a wednesday, but i might possibly be unable to post anything until sunday, so i’m posting this now. also, i usually enjoy reading and commenting on the blogs that i follow, but i likely won’t be able to do that until monday when i get back from my short…
I don’t have many heroes or people I look up to, and that’s probably not a good thing. But I can think of two: Bruce Springsteen and Roger Ebert. This one’s about Ebert. Some of you might be old enough to remember him and Gene Siskel doing the old “At the Movies” shows on a…
So, like last time, you can put your caption here as a comment. But better yet is to click on the picture, go to the New Yorker magazine website, and enter your caption in their contest. And don’t forget to vote on entries from two weeks ago. See, there’s a two-week lag. They had the one…
reposted from about 3 years ago, but you’ve never read it. I’m rather tired of hearing about the “liberal media.” in fact, i don’t agree with the thought, although i don’t disagree either. let me explain. are the media on the left, sort of liberal in their attitudes? I’d have to admit, yes they are. however,…
originally posted about 5 years ago, but you never read it… i was recently in a sporting good store standing near one of the registers, making a purchase, when a tall guy walked up around the line of registers and out the door. as he walked past me, the 20-something guy made too much eye…
this topic recently came up on someone else’s blog, so i thought i’d repost my essay from about 2 1/2 years ago, originally published by pikerpress.com. Over the past few years, a great deal of money has been spent, efforts put forth, attention given, words spoken, words yelled, words cursed, and pain suffered in…
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