I didn’t get out of the movie until 3:00 AM. So I’m requiring A LOT of caffeine to even closely resemble normal functionality. Even so, I had a great time watching an incredible movie. As I suspected, it was totally worth it. I saw it with Keith and Jennifer (who were kind enough to wait outside for my slacker ass & NOT kill me). And even though it happened only a few short hours ago, let’s take a stroll down memory lane. Walk with me. Read the rest of this entry »
I know that everyone and their dead uncle Frank has heard about the Watchmen movie opening this weekend. The first trailer called Watchmen “the most celebrated graphic novel of all time”. I saw rather quickly that I would be best served to get familiar with the story or I would be a bit lost. So I drove my ass to Books-a-million and bought a copy. Mind you, I am not now nor have I ever been a comic book guy. I do still retain my childlike love for cartoons including the Super Friends, Spider-man, Justice League and all the Saturday morning classics. So even though comics just haven’t ever appealed to me, I’m still all about the superheroes. So eat me. Read the rest of this entry »
In Sequatchie County, Tennessee, there is a celebration in the making. On the afternoon of Thursday, January 15, local resident Frankie Earl Riggs, 78, will be making his historic 200th trip to the local Kangaroo market. “He walks in here every week, like clockwork,” says cashier Frances Holland. Riggs makes the two-block hike each week to his favorite local store and purchases the same items each week. “He always buys chocolate milk, a box of condoms and lighter fluid. Not sure what he’s doing with it, but it’s making him a local legend,” said Holland. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes you read something and it makes you stop, shake your head in disbelief and wonder how some people can be so stupid that they barely have the mental wherewithall to put one foot in front of the other. Few things corrupt the human mind more than religion and blind nationalism. Combine the two and that unholy union produces the worst kind of loud-mouthed assholes. Read the rest of this entry »
Todd Shepherd is a student of life. Time magazine describes him as having "the mind of a scholar, the heart of a lion, and the soul of an artist." A practitioner of the media arts, Todd believes that hot mustard or a dash of garlic will liven up anything. In his spare time, Todd coaches an elderly competitive weightlifting team and finds sharks both fascinating and terrifying.
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