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In 2007, AFI updated its list 100 Years…100 Movies, listing what it considers to be the top 100 movies of all time.

[bold the movies you’ve seen,
italicize the movies you own,
crossout the movies you disliked.]

1. “Citizen Kane,” 1941.
2. “The Godfather,” 1972.
3. “Casablanca,” 1942.
4. “Raging Bull,” 1980.
5. “Singin’ in the Rain,” 1952.
6. “Gone ( Read more... )

It's considered a benchmark piece of American literature, one of those books that people expect that you read somewhere along the line, either for school or for pleasure. Without naming names, I know one individual who claims it as her favorite book, another who reads it as a reminder (?) every summer, and yet another who once yelled at me in the ( Read more... )

To be an recent college alum, browsing photos on Facebook that were posted my freshman year...some of which were uploaded by and have tagged people that are strangers to me yet, four years on. To wonder what sort of networks I was never privy to, with only hints preserved through these variable bytes and cold, glowing pixels ( Read more... )

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

How do your reading habits stack up?

[bold those books you've read in their entirety,
italicize the ones you started but didn't finish]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK ( Read more... )

I just printed out my last paper -- to wit, an English paper -- for my last class in my last semester of college. Not barring my eventual (?) application to grad school, I am done with my education.
Now waiting for the gravity of that all to sink in. I'm feeling some sort of gravity right now, but I think that's due to 6AM drowsiness. Oh yeah, it ( Read more... )

Two days ago, after I had said goodbye to Jenn for her Christmastime visit, my dad put me to work. Over the past year he's been contracted by the Old Orchard Beach Police Dept. to install surveillance cameras on the beachfront, which link up via wireless to their main office. One of the radio transmitters was malfunctioning, so he asked me to help ( Read more... )

I give my dad the credit he is due.

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I'll still keep this, both for posterity and seeing what people are up to, but I'm now taking up this platform. Act accordingly.

Because those are always fun to have when you're a twenty-something ( Read more... )