The Amazing Spider-man The Amazing Spider-man is one of the most enjoyable superhero movies I’ve seen in the last ten, heck, fifteen years. It rocks. Is it as good as any in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series? Yes, but it never becomes dark. And in many ways I think it might be better. How about Iron
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So is the movie as good as so many are saying? I liked the book a lot. You can see my review here: http://johndbrown.com/2010/09/amano-jasons-deli-and-the-hunger-games/ Yes, but is the movie as good as the book? Let’s start with the beginning of the movie. During the first 10 or 15 minutes I was so annoyed and angry that I
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The Way Back GULag is the acronym for the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems in the early 1900’s. In Romanized Russian that’s “Glavnoye upravlyeniye ispravityel’no-trudovih lagyeryey i koloniy” which means “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies.” The term “Gulag” quickly morphed to represent the camps themselves, which
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A Man and a Team of Girls Back in 1964, Jim Keith took a job at an Oklahoma high school to coach boy’s basketball. But when he arrived, the administrators changed their minds and gave his job to someone else. Keith’s contract didn’t specify which gender he’d coach, just that he’d coach. So they switched
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Buck About two years ago I was walking out in Round Valley and saw a rider on a horse coming down a hill through the brush. I got to him just as he moved onto the road. Right away, I noticed that there was something a bit off with the horse’s gear—the rider was not
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