The Avengers (2012)seen @ UA Kaufman Studios Cinema 14, Long Island City, Queens, NY5.4.12The truth is, I don't ever recall being ostracized for reading comic books as a kid. I remember certain friends I shared them with, though those weren't many. My parents were never opposed to them; in fact, my father used to drive me to the comic shop on Saturdays at one point. I never felt protective of my level of fandom as a child. I never had to justify it in any way, and I suppose in that I was lucky.At some po... read more »
In the course of writing so many features for last months UK Coffee Week, we forgot all about this piece... enjoy it over a coffee!It's the final day of UK Coffee Week and we hope you've been consuming our features with the same fervent desire in which you would a freshly served coffee in your favorite coffee bar. To round off the week we're going to look at just some of the things you can do when drinking coffee. You'd be surprised what's out there!Coffee and Action. Surfing the Internet: Now we all kn... read more »
National Cash by Marcello Tino Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Thompson and Prince (March 28, 2012) ISBN-10: 061558893X ISBN-13: 978-0615588933 National Cash is about sex, drugs, rock and roll, and a Second American Revolution where the children of the 60s became giants and took on the corporate Leviathan, overthrew two presidents of the United State, nearly toppled an Empire, and stood at the door to eternity where Zen meets quantum physics and everything is possible. Lori Anne Lee says: From the mo... read more »
The Raid: Redemption is unashamedly an action film. After ten minutes of exposition, writer/director Gareth Evans story is an unending barrage of fights, gunfire, and tension. The plot, as it were, concerns a police SWAT team infiltrating a mob-run and occupied apartment complex to take out the leader once and for all. It quickly becomes apparent that the entire job is a set-up and the highly skilled officers are left fighting for their lives in a tightly controlled compound. The easiest way to describe ... read more »
The Zen of Grey2K touches on the effects that Grey2K USA's political posturing have on greyhounds, greyhound adoption, greyhound racing professionals and their families. How their propaganda campaign would make Joseph Goebbels proud.*Originally published on the website, All About Greyhounds, prior to the 2012 Super Bowl. Reprinted here with the permission of the author All About Greyhounds.*By RockingshipOverlooking the unconscionable damage they have done to greyhound racing professionals and their fam... read more »
Grey2K USA (Grey2K) manufactures controversy and conflict.Put yourself in Grey2K's shoes... You bring in more than $300K in donations and of that amount, nothing goes to the greyhound groups that provide services such as finding good homes for the dogs retired from greyhound racing. You know, those dogs that Grey2K and its minions present as beaten, starved and abused in many other ways to drum up more in donations for Grey2K. So, what happens to all that money?Well 23% of it goes into salaries for the h... read more »
Traffic lights can have several additional lights for filter turns or bus lanes. This one in Warrington, United Kingdom, also shows the red + amber combination seen in a number of European countries. It also shows the backing board and white border used to increase the target value of the signal head. Improved visibility of the signal head is achieved during the night by using the retro-reflective white border. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Another fractured week. Domestic duties vying with writing demands an... read more »
The Hunger Gamesseen @ Center Cinema 6, Sunnyside, Queens, NY3.27.12Recently, I wrote about a blind spot I tend to have for certain fanboy movies, and I tried to be as honest as possible with myself about the possible reasons why. Looking back on it now, I feel fairly confident that the conclusions I came to are the right ones, based on my experience and my biases. One thing that subsequently occurred to me came as I wrote to my pal Bibi about this: in recent years, I've been cutting myself off from more... read more »
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KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo. Make Joseph Kony famous. This is the new call to action by the non-profit organization Invisible Children whose mission is to educate people about the ongoing war in Central Uganda, who wants to make the world's worst living criminal famous so that people will know and care enough to bombard policymakers in doing something to stop Kony and his army. Over the past 26 years, Kony has abducted more than 30,000 children. He and his army rapes the girls and tur... read more »
