Orange Thursday

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 If Friday is black, then perhaps Thursday is orange?  For some reason, I think of that color when I think of Thanksgiving.  Maybe it has something to do with pumpkins, since they are the pie of the season.  Or the color of turkey when it has just come out of the oven (a deep, rich orangy color).  Or maybe it's my Bears, since Thanksgiving was about football long before it was about sucking every last dollar out of the American consumer.

Thanksgiving Thoughts from the White Board

So the city is actually Phoenix then, yes?

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Because Phoenix's rise from their own ashes, and ashes form from embers, and the book is about the city of Ember, and so it must be Phoenix, yes?

Book Review: The City of Ember

I should be VERY tired

Twenty-five movie reviews in one day!  I know, I have traditionally only published one post at a time, but desperate times call for crazy solutions.  I have to give credit where credit is due though.  This crazy idea came from my wife. Thanks Dear.  If I published each of the reviews I have sitting around in nearly ready-to-go shape on a daily basis, I'd have enough to post each day for almost a month.  So I decided to dump these twenty-five online and then take a rest.

Movie Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Movie Review: As Above, So Below

Movie Review: Edge of Tomorrow

Movie Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Movie Review: The Other Woman

Movie Review: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Movie Review: The Amazing Spiderman 2

Movie Review: Divergent

Movie Review: Dredd

Movie Review: Ender's Game

Movie Review: Gravity

Movie Review: Iron Man 3

Movie Review: Looper

Movie Review: Maleficent

Movie Review: Man of Steel

Movie Review: Now You See Me

Movie Review: Pacific Rim

Movie Review: Pompeii

Movie Review: R.I.P.D.

Movie Review: Red 2

Movie Review: Red Dawn (2012)

Movie Review: Skyfall

Movie Review: Robocop (2014)

Movie Review: The Conjuring

Movie Review: The Guilt Trip

A fascinating look at a somber subject

Today's book review covers some pretty heavy subject matter, but I found the book to be insightful and worth the time spent.

Book Review: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

On Killing hearkened me back to a book I haven't read since I was in junior high school.  Years have given me more perspective on Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage, but even back then I felt more than a touch of the significance imported by that seminal text.

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Catching Fire? Stop, Drop & Roll

Another review, but this one seemed timely.

Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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Thinking and then some

Another book review today.  This one I read over the past summer.  It was pretty good.  Check out my review at the link below.

Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Speaking of thinking, here's a great example of thinking on your feet.



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Interstellar Love Song

Oh, that's "InterSTATE Love Song."  Sorry Stone Temple Pilots, I got it mixed up.

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In the meantime, here is a review for a film that - shocker of shockers! - is still in the big box theaters!  I'm really on a roll here, I know. First Dracula: Untold and now Interstellar.  Maybe I ought to quit my day job and start being a film critic full-time, huh?  Or on second thought, I'm gonna stick to making bad jokes and pointless but pedantic observations.

Movie Review: Interstellar

And here is the song, since I mentioned it.

After America... comes South America?

No!  China!  No, wait!  Australia!

R.I.P. Uncle Sam.  This is part of the book cover image for the book I thought I was reading, by the way.  / Source: popcultureninja.com

Check out my review of After America (The Disappearance) at the link below.

Book Review: After America

Dark Matter... it just has a spooky ring to it

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I'm not talking about the cosmological substance theorized by astrophysicists (see the chart above, or for in depth detail, check out this Dummies.com article if you are as sadly perplexed by high level physics as I am).  Nope, I'm talking instead of the 2010 novel by Michelle Paver.  It's pretty good stuff, and suitably scary for a good thrill.  Check out the review at the link below.

Book Review: Dark Matter

More Thoughts from the White Board

Posted some more Thoughts this evening.

Theological Thoughts from the White Board - Nov 13

Book Review: A History of Western Philosophy

Ah philosophy...  As I have no doubt mentioned before, and will do so again, my freshmen level philopsophy course was my worst grade in college.  Up until my final semester in school, that is.  Math took the top -err - bottom spot then.

In case you were curious what the differences are between the east side and the west side, vis-a-vis the philosophy thing. / Source: theliberatedmind.com

But I still find the subject somewhat fascinating.  Enough so that I actually read this book and did up some notes on it.  See the link below for the details.

Book Review: A History of Western Philosophy

Date night at the cheap seats

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Had the opportunity to go out with my wife on Saturday evening.  Nothing fancy, but it was so nice just spending time together.  Went and saw Guardians of the Galaxy.  Check out my review, at the link below.

Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy

Movie Review: Elysium

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It's not a fresh review.  It's not even a good movie.  But it is something.  And something is good.

There will be a few posts like this for the foreseeable future, until I start getting caught up.  But on the bright side.....  hey!  Content!

Movie Review: Elysium

Thoughts from the White Board for Nov 3rd

First White Board post for the revived blog is now up.  I'm just making all sorts of progress here, aren't I?  Use the link below to go there.

Chubby Thoughts from the White Board - Nov 3