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Resolutions I can keep - Cordele Dispatch


Self-discovery can be both revealing and frightening. It is revealing, because you gather new insight into the real self. It is frightening because once revealed, you must admit there are some things about oneself that are less than complimentary ...


7 Jan 2009

The Newsreel Digrest - Egypt Today


IF SUDAN catches a cold, Egypt soon starts sneezing. It’s an old saying that recently had policymakers in Cairo reaching for Vitamin C tablets and a list of infectious disease specialists when instead of its usual sniffles, Sudan came down with the ...


7 Jan 2009

Wegmans drug offering gets mixed reviews - MPNow


Jean Mauer has medical insurance, yet she still spends about $100 a month on prescription drugs. “Without insurance, my prescriptions would cost me thousands of dollars a year,” said the 69-year-old Henrietta resident. It is for Mauer and others ...


7 Jan 2009

Clint drives it home: edgy Eastwood groans, growls in compelling 'Gran ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer


"Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!" has never carried quite the resounding curmudgeon-next-door rancor as it does spewing forth from the locked-and-loaded lips of Clint Eastwood. This is one scary old dude you do not want to live near. In the ...


7 Jan 2009

Soulja Boy Tell’em Cartoon Proves Rapper Has Just One Annoying Note - Newsroom.mtv.com


I love my “Class of 3000″ lunch box. And I loved the show , because frankly, Outkast’s Andre 3000 is already pretty much a living cartoon, with a voice and beats that sound like a DayGlo rubber ball being tossed into a giant vat of neon Silly ...


7 Jan 2009

The Movie Club - Slate


OK, I'll get to stuff that made me laugh in a minute, but back up. Jeannette: Hancock ? HANCOCK ?! Whatever savior juice Will Smith is drinking these days, it's not doing his artistic judgment much good. I thought Hancock was screwed up in the ...


7 Jan 2009

Wegmans drug offering gets mixed reviews (MPNnow.com)


YAHOO - Wegmans drug offering gets mixed reviews (MPNnow.com)Wegmans will offer certain antibiotics for free through March 31, but not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.


7 Jan 2009

Clint drives it home: edgy Eastwood groans, growls in compelling 'Gran Torino' (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)


YAHOO - Clint drives it home: edgy Eastwood groans, growls in compelling Warner Bros.Cool down, Clint! Eastwood's Walt Kowalski is less than gracious to his Asian neighbors in "Gran Torino." REVIEW Gran Torino Who: With Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Rated: R for foul language throughout and...


7 Jan 2009

Cinema | Unforgiveable: Clint Eastwood bids a limp farewell to acting in the laughable Gran Torino. (Salt Lake City Weekly)


YAHOO - Cinema | Unforgiveable: Clint Eastwood bids a limp farewell to acting in the laughable  Gran Torino.  (Salt Lake City Weekly)Clint Eastwood is not a great actor. Twenty years ago, that wouldn't have been a particularly daring critical statement; the odd outlier like Tightrope notwithstanding, he was known primarily as a guy who could squint one-dimensionally while firing a gun, or squint one-dimensionally while being punched by an orangutan. But at some point during his cinematic dotage, we all started cutting E...


7 Jan 2009

Gran Torino (Review) (Cincinnati CityBeat)


YAHOO - Gran Torino (Review) (Cincinnati CityBeat)Clint Eastwood bids a limp farewell to acting in the laughable Gran Torino Clint Eastwood is not a gifted actor. Twenty years ago, that wouldn’t have been a particularly daring critical statement. The odd outlier like Tightrope notwithstanding, he was known primarily as a guy who could squint one-dimensionally while firing a gun or squint one-dimensionally while being punched by an orangutan.


7 Jan 2009

The deciders: Veteran chairmen (The Politico)


YAHOO - The deciders: Veteran chairmen (The Politico)A handful of powerful congressional chairmen will hold the keys to their legislative successes — or failures.


7 Jan 2009

Rob Morrison: Daddy Diaries: Confessions of a Stay-At-Home Anchorman (HuffingtonPost)


YAHOO - Rob Morrison: Daddy Diaries: Confessions of a Stay-At-Home Anchorman (HuffingtonPost)My new "stay-at-home" status has brought me face to face with children's television like never before and I've developed a visceral disdain for it. The voices! The music!


6 Jan 2009

From "The Graveyard Book" on Flickr - Photo Sharing!


From "The Graveyard Book". To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. From "The Graveyard Book" by Grouchy Smurf. By Neil Gaiman. ...


7 Jan 2009

The Grouchy Cineaste: Another avenue closes


The Grouchy Cineaste. Picking apart the Picture Show. Wednesday, January 7, 2009. Another avenue closes · This is not good news. From the LA Times:. A provision of a law passed by the Legislature in 2006, which took effect Thursday, ...


7 Jan 2009

"Gran Torino" | She Likes to Watch


Clint Eastwood is one bitter old man in Gran Torino And the award for Best Scowl goes to ... Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. In his latest drama,


7 Jan 2009

The Grouchy Cineaste: The woe of development


The Grouchy Cineaste. Picking apart the Picture Show. Wednesday, January 7, 2009. The woe of development · Wise words from Peter Morgan in an AP interview. First a bit of arrogance (being the flavor of the moment never fails to get to ...


7 Jan 2009

Grouchy Old Cripple: Stole Another One


Stole Another One. I noticed that Al Franken has successfully stolen the election in Minnesota. It's always amazing that every time there is a recount, the Dimocrat always magically finds more votes. Sometimes these votes come from ...


6 Jan 2009

Grouchy Old Cripple: French Yutes


French Yutes. So what's goong on with those rowdy French yutes? Got this link from Darth Unix. At least 445 cars were torched over the night of New Year's Eve in France, a 20 percent rise on last year, but there were relatively few ...


6 Jan 2009