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Jade Empire is well worth picking up. It’s a deep and engrossing RPG in the best Western tradition. The player’s decisions and behavior govern how their character will grow, as well as on how the storyline unfolds. It also offers one of the most ambitious combat systems that I’ve seen in an RPG to-date. It is both deep and innovative; not to mention a pure blast to engage in. If you’re an RPG fan, I highly recommend this one.

We went to see Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire yesterday. Since we all wanted to see it and Brynn isn’t quite at the stage where she’s “patient” enough to sit through a two-and-a-half hour movie, we went in shifts. Laura and her mom took Byron to the 1:30 showing; Marco and I went […]

careful dissection
time to remove the cancer
perhaps all things are false
facades for the fickle
honey-drip lie trickle
nothing casual in this casualty
nothing pure
far less whole
when up-turned, empty
wound the worse for indifference
unfathomed infraction
ignorance serves proxy for innocence
off the hook and in the clear
playing martyr’s always more fun than being one
and truth is a�silly thing
no more concrete
than any other
human concept
susceptible […]

It never ceases to amaze me how a song can just come in out of nowhere at any given moment and completely capture the way you’re feeling. From the melody, to the lyrics, it’s one of music’s greatest attributes: compassionate flexibility.
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Got this in an email today. Apparently this was started by Illinois State Senator Howard W. Carroll. Notice a trend?
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This is not that war movie, and those who go into a theater expecting such will find it anticlimactic and disappointing; which is almost ironic. The film is so faithful to Swofford’s memoirs that audiences may literally experience the very same sort of dischord between expectations and reality about the film that Swofford felt about his experiences in the first Persian Gulf War. That’s a true testament to how closely the movie mirrors the book, I assure you.

I finally had a chance to watch the documentary Gunner Palace last night, and I have to say that this is a film that every American needs to see. Everyone of us that’s sitting at home or behind an office desk, sipping on coffee and bitching about the morning commute or the weather or how shitty the Vikings are doing this year owes it to the men and women of the armed services to go out and rent this movie.