Drive

There’s a lot to like about Drive: we have a hero, a villain, and a running time of about an hour and half.  That’s about as long as you really want to hang out with the people you meet in Drive-any longer and one of them will turn around and  kill you. The previews for Drive made it look like a film about a getaway driver, which is why some nutjob sued because there was not that much on the getaway driver front.  The opening scenes follow along as our hero drives a getaway car and does a pretty good…

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Trading Almonds for Fritos

Not long ago I read Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted.  This is a peppy little book with an agenda, to get the reader-in this case me-to stop poisoning himself and start eating foods that will heal what ails him.  At one point he mentions how hard this process was hard for him, because everywhere he went, he found that people wanted to kill him. Ok, maybe kill him is a little bit of an overstatement.  He found that everywhere he went, people wanted to feed him,…

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