In their continuing efforts to trail-blaze, Massachusetts officials are considering an amendment to the state constitution in order to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 in state elections ( Read more... )

Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.

Cabbage Patch (n.), A patch for those trying to stop eating cabbage.

Frisbatarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there

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I once cut the tag off my mattress.

Moments after doing so, I got a phone call warning me that if I ever did that again, I would be receiving another threatening phone call. "Cool," I thought! Now, whenever I'm bored and have nothing to do, I cut the tag off a mattress and then chat it up with the threatening voice that calls.

True story! ^_^

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A few days back, I got involved in a disagreement about the pledge and it's "under God" content. While I personally don't see what the big deal is, I can understand how it might bother those of certain religions that worship [fill in the blank] instead of "God" and wish to not speak that portion of the pledge. I see our country's pledge as part of ( Read more... )

First, it was well worth the $38 I spent to see it (tickets for the afternoon show were over $10 each!!!) and our theater was lucky enough to be able to show it in high-def (absolutely the ONLY way to see it!) Now onto the comments:

The Story: The movie was paced oddly for some reason. The first 45 minutes were very fast, and full of action. Then ( Read more... )

I opted to take the kids to the special preview of "The Last Mimzy" today (they've been talking about wanting to see it for months). It's surely amazing how we manage to forget the important things... like how much of an production it is to take two kids to a movie. Good grief! Thankfully, I didn't have to kill anyone this trip (not that the option ( Read more... )

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HOLLYWOOD - Executives of the "Big Three" networks got together this past weekend for what can only be called a "summit", in an effort to find solutions to help curb the rising costs of producing new shows each season and the demand for bigger and better stories and effects by the viewing audience. Nina Tassler, one of the network executives at CBS ( Read more... )