With the passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, i feel like part of my childhood has gone and i can never get it back. Time moves on, with or without us, but the least we can hope for is that when we're gone, someone will remember us and smile, saying,...he was a good person, she made me laugh, they were incredible. Not all of us will leave ( Read more... )

I went and watched Up today in 3-D and i must say, it was an amazing ride. It's really something when a movie can touch and break your heart in the first 10 minutes. Leave it to Disney to find a way to make this eclectic group of characters fit together. It's yet another gorgeous piece of animation, even if it is computer generated, with wonderful ( Read more... )

Well, after my mom's Lumpectomy, they discovered the cancer was spread out in small areas all over the breast. Today she had to go in for a Mastectomy. As a man, i can sympathize with her pain and suffering, but as a man i can't empathize with her grief at losing her breast, were a woman can. That's why i'm glad my sister came in from out of town ( Read more... )

There is no word i can, off hand think of that inspires fear and dread in a person then the ideal that some doctor, someday, is going to tell you, you have cancer. To think it can hit you at anytime is god awfully scary, to hear the words from your mom hits you like a truck in the gut. To have her say that she has been diagnosed with cancer is ( Read more... )

Well here we are in the first day of 2009, man these years keep slipping by me, but i have to say 2008 was very interesting. I've seen people come and people go, change in ways i never thought i'd see and i got to experience some pretty cool things ( Read more... )

Watching the presidential election yesterday was watching history being made, whether you agree or disagree with the outcome. We have a new president, in Barrack Obama, and i'm hoping there will be great changes coming that will pick this country up from the hole it's been sitting in. I don't envy him though since being the first of anything means ( Read more... )

Well the day is winding down and my B-day is almost over, so how did it rate? Not too bad, got to hang out with friends, catch a movie, have dinner and relax. Not bad at all. Sometimes the simple things in life are really the best, there are people out there whose birthday consists of pain, suffering, anguish, sadness and grief. Why? Various ( Read more... )

Ever since i was little i was always fascianted with special effects in movies, so when i heard of the passing of Stan Winston, i felt a pang in my chest knowing one of the greats in the industry had died. Stand Winston helped with special effects when there was no CGI, when it was all prosthetics, make-up and skill. He worked in movies really too ( Read more... )

On March 4th at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the man who created D&D and started the whole genre of roleplaying, Gary Gygax, passed away. For me it's a sense of profound loss, as i've been playing for 25 years now, and it's never failed to pick me up when i've been down, entertain me when i've been bored, and allowed me to expand my mind ( Read more... )

To start with, this happened nice and early this morning ( Read more... )