Wedding Daze 2007 (R)
Wedding Daze ** NFK. This is a bizarre little film. Over the top comedy. Mildly enjoyable. I guess it is a typical Jason Biggs (American Pie) movie.
Catch and Release 2006 (PG-13)
Catch and Release ***. Cassidy added this to our Netflix queue. She said it was just ok. I decided to watch it on a Sunday (during the US Open) and I actually liked it. Timothy Olyphant starred in it. Timothy isn’t the best actor but I just love his Clint Easwoodish presence. It’s the first non killer character I’ve seen him play (Deadwood, Hitman, Live Free or Die Hard).
LBJ High School Class of 1980 30th Reunion
I’ve volunteered to help organize our 30th reunion. We’re starting late and we don’t plan to hire the job out like we did for the 10th & 20th. I’m confident we can do it ourselves with the technology available to us. I’ve setup this blog to keep potential attendees informed. I’ve created a group in Facebook for the LBJ Class of 1980. If you graduated from LBJ Austin in 1980 and are interested in the reunion, bookmark or subscribe to the blog linked above and fill out this form to receive the latest updates: http://tinyurl.com/lbjclassof80
The Home Run
Liberty Mutual Insurance sponsors a website called The Responsibility Project. It presents thought provoking questions intended to spark discussions. I first heard about it when they advertised in the New Your Time’s Magazine Sunday Insert. The ad was placed alongside “The Ethicist”. I subscribe to The Responsibility Project in my newsreader. The Project has several short films which are professionally done and very good. The Home Run is one of these and if you have kids in sports, I highly recommend it.
District 9
District 9 *** NFK. This was a disturbing movie. I mean the content and how it was filmed. Much felt like a documentary and the look was grainy. There was so much hand held camera work I think I started getting dizzy. I’ve never seen anything like this movie and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit.
The Wrestler 2008 (R)
The Wrestler **** NFK. Loved Mickey Rourke in it. Loved the struggle with his daughter. It was a sad sweet movie.
Sultan’s Elephant
Today I received a Power Point Presentation from a friend. I uploaded it to Google Docs and published it HERE
Unfriending or removing a friend from Facebook
Certainly, you can remove a person from your friends list by following one of their links to their home page and scrolling down to the bottom of the left column and clicking “Remove From Friends”; but they could take it personally. There are other things you can do if you simply want to remove their wall posts from your wall feed.
Hover just the the right of a friends post and a menu item will appear that will allow you to hide that friend from your wall feed. The Hide command may only appear in certain browsers. It appeared in IE for me but not FireFox.
An even better method is to create a “Favorites” list and to select it as your feed source or move it to the top of the list of groups. You may have to select “More” at the bottom of your groups in order to be able to drag and drop to reorder each item in the list.
Taken 2009 (PG-13)
Taken ****. I really liked this movie. Saw it with Cassidy at the theater. I like Liam Neeson a lot. That line in the trailer where he talks on the phone with his daughter’s kidnapper saying he will hunt him down and hearing “Good luck” had me sold. Great ride with lots of action and tense situations.
They Boy In the Striped Pajamas 2008 (PG-13)
The Boy In the Striped Pajamas ***. This movie was recommended by my sister Lily. It is about a son of a commandant at a concentration camp who befriends a boy in the concentration camp through the barb-wire fence. It’s another holocaust movie but from a different vantage point. I enjoyed it.