Monthly Archives: April 2010

You Can’t Judge a Movie By Its Credits

I had the television on the other night just in time to catch the opening credits of the 8:00 movie on Turner. It reminded me of just how fine some of those title sequences can be. Of course one would … Continue reading

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The Sea of Possibilities

For most socially challenged kids, high school becomes the final torment — a kind of ninth circle — at the end of an already unpleasant progression of mismatched interactions, rejections and instances of outright abuse. But somehow I really lucked … Continue reading

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