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Craig's Cul-de-sac: Zac Attack!
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Sunday, August 23, 2009. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a film lover. I lean toward the classics, particularly noir and sci-fi, as well as foreign (Bergman, Kurosawa, etc). I can't deny the fact that I’m a bit of a movie snob…. That is to say, I pretty much eschew most of the crap that gets churned out these days (I liken modern. To an overgrown retarded gorilla, gleefully tossing its feces around). I’m not a professional reviewer, and I don’t claim to be. Green means good, great, maybe even excellent.
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Craig's Cul-de-sac: Change
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Thursday, July 2, 2009. I’m not who I imagined I’d be when I grew up. In all honesty, I never really had a clear vision for my future, but I knew I wanted to do something creative. I have a fairly decent command of the language, so I figured maybe I’d be a writer. A writer of what? I have no illusions about what the solution entails. There is no special diet, no magic pill. I need to eat smarter (and less! And I have kids who need me. I have to change, before it’s too late. July 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM. Well,...
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Craig's Cul-de-sac: Plastic Fantastic Memories
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Monday, August 16, 2010. I’m an action figure guy. I was seven years old when the original Star Wars. Well, my love of action figures never quite went away. It started, as mentioned above, with Star Wars. Had been an unexpected smash hit; so unexpected that toys weren’t available when the film first came out! I still remember the day he arrived in the mail, in that tiny plain white box…. A slumber party at a friend’s house? They came with me. Everywhere. May 1980. The Empire Strikes Back. I opened him as...
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Craig's Cul-de-sac: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010. I like jazz. Not all jazz, mind you, but quite a bit of it. I dig jazzy film/TV soundtracks ( Naked Lunch, Taxi Driver, Twin Peaks, The Ipcress File. 8230; the list goes on). I love early (and mid) Coltrane. Pretty much anything by Chet Baker makes me swoon. Stan Getz is awesome (especially his bossa nova stuff with Jobim and Gilberto). As far as jazz vocalists go, how about Frank Sinatra? Ladies, and gentlemen, I give you Kind of Blue. Playing on the jukebox in the background.
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Craig's Cul-de-sac: November 2008
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Thursday, November 27, 2008. So Long, and Thanks for All the Turkey. Thanksgiving went well. Our turkey turned out great, despite taking over an hour longer than we’d anticipated (the Big Easy is awesome, but slow): crispy on the outside, moist and juicy on the inside. The brining approach is clearly the way to go. This may have been the best turkey I’ve ever had. I can’t ride it, and I can’t brush its hair, but I can grin like an idiot every time I look at it. And I do. Looked promising. Three of th...
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Craig's Cul-de-sac: August 2008
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008. My Weekend Adventure in Rainier. (REVISED and EXPANDED). My weekend adventure in Rainier. Started out with a phone call from my dad last Thursday night. About to leave for. Not due back in. It seems my mom had taken a pretty bad spill on their front porch while attempting to water some hanging plants, and my uncle Greg, her brother, had taken her to the hospital. Dad was understandably freaking out, scrambling to change his plans to get back home as soon as possible. A collection...
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Craig's Cul-de-sac: April 2009
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Thursday, April 30, 2009. Oh yeah, that’s right! I have a blog. It’s like I completely forgot about it for five months. I think my last entry involved a family trip to Giant Burger right after Thanksgiving. Good God, that’s gotta be the biggest gap since I started this thing. I hope my loyal fans (all 3 of you, possibly 4) aren’t too upset. I tend to procrastinate, which has been well documented, so this shouldn’t be a huge surprise. Self-loathing 1, self-love zero. Example of my habitual inaction:.
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Craig's Cul-de-sac: Death: The Busiest Man in Hollywood?
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Death: The Busiest Man in Hollywood? So Ed McMahon died a couple of weeks ago. Then, last week, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died. Then, this week, Billy Mays and Karl Malden died. And the week’s only half over. Death, that rascal spectre of the infinite, that black-cloaked grinning skull, that scythe-swinging collector of eternity-bound souls, is clearly the busiest man in. Clearly Death is on a roll, and Lady Luck is on His side. There’s always a silver lining.
