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Contagion

Contagion was not what I was expecting. I thought it was going to be more 28 Days Later and less PBS Special on Diseases and how they are spread. So instead of a tense story about the end of the world, we had a rather dry and boring story about the spread a virus and …

September 13, 2011 – 9:59 pm | By Descartes | Posted in movie review | Tagged 1960s, 28 days later, actors, boring story, casts, cliche, contagion, deaths, diseases, few minutes, films, finial, first person, mad jumble, mobs, mutation, pbs, tense story, virus, viruses | Comments (0)

You Don’t Know Jack

Barry Levinson’s made for HBO movie is about the completely eccentric retired Doctor Jack Kevorkian, who believes that it is his duty to put people out of their misery. With the help of his sister and his only friend in the world, who happens to run a medical supply business-Doctor Death starts to help people …

June 21, 2011 – 6:03 pm | By Descartes | Posted in tv review | Tagged al pacino, assisted suicide, barry levinson, brenda vaccaro, business doctor, doctor death, doctor jack kevorkian, dr kevorkian, finial, good doctor, hbo, john goodman, june 3, little man, medical supply, protestors, serial killer, sixty minutes, supply business, susan sarandon | Comments (0)

Hit List:Antia Blake and Edward Ride Again

Laurell K Hamilton goes old school with Anita Blake in the 20th book in the series. Hit List is more monster hunting and vampire slaying and a lot less wicked sexual powers and Ardeur induced orgies. This is a good thing. The story opens up with Anita and Edward investigating a series of murders where …

June 15, 2011 – 9:27 am | By Descartes | Posted in book review, sci fi | Tagged anita blake, ardeur, cast of thousands, darkness, finial, grabs, harem, harlequin, jean claude, laurell k hamilton, marmee, medical treatment, murders, olaf, old school, orgies, sexual powers, story takes place, stranger, vampire slaying | Comments (0)

Genghis Grill-In Awe of The Master

I’ve always been a fan of all you can eat places-who doesn’t love having more food than they can possibly eat? Genghis Grill sell their buffet as either one bowl-about the size of a cereal bowl- or all you can eat. The result is that some people don’t want to spend another couple of dollars …

June 6, 2011 – 7:26 pm | By Descartes | Posted in food, random thoughts, resturant review | Tagged bowls, cabbage, cereal bowl, finial, onions, pepper and salt, pepperoni, protein, rim, sauces, scallops, shrimp, smoke sausage, smoked sausage, spices, sweet ones, two pieces, two thirds, types of salts, veggies | Comments (1)

Never Let Me Go

British Sci Fi never ceases to amaze me-the same people who bring us Doctor Who and Space:1999 also bring us The Prisoner and Outcasts. From the very silly to the simply baffling, British Sci Fi is never predictable. Never Let Me Go was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his love song to the …

April 11, 2011 – 7:23 pm | By Descartes | Posted in movie review, sci fi | Tagged advances in medicine, clones, doctor who, finial, gripes, head mistress, kazuo ishiguro, lambs, life expectancy, little slug, love song, organ transplantation, outcasts, real reason, remains of the day, sci fi story, serving class, space 1999, unfairness, villain | Comments (0)

Why We Get Fat

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It talks about how the world changed after World War II and how everyone who has been drinking the Calories In/Calories Out Kool Aide is wrong. Once upon a time some serious people studied why humans get fat, why rats get fat, and why old Doc …

February 10, 2011 – 10:07 am | By Descartes | Posted in book review, diet, food | Tagged billions and billions, convincing case, duke university medical, duke university medical center, exercise products, finial, kool aide, lifestyle medicine, magic bullet, mcdonalds, medicine clinic, ovaries, rats, recommended lifestyle, rest of your life, simple chemical reactions, starvation diets, tiny amounts, world war ii | Comments (0)

True Blood-They Are All Monsters

Season 3 of True Blood wraps up with a few finial twists and turns that show us that the Good Guys aren’t so good. Our hero vampire Bill took a number steps this season that showed he was more evil than we thought. His casual betrayals pop up throughout the season, with his constant backstabbing …

October 4, 2010 – 2:43 am | By Descartes | Posted in tv show | Tagged backwaters, bartender, endless line, evil vampire, finial, general idea, good guys, holding a grudge, little chance, lousianna, monsters, redneck, season 3, shapeshifter, shapeshifters, supernaturals, true blood, twists and turns, witch, witchcraft | Comments (0)

Bullet, Anita Blake Does Everyone-Again

Laurell K Hamilton likes to write porn-and judging from the format of her latest Anita Blake book, she must like watching it was well. The feel of Bullet is standard porn style, a bit of plot-sex scene-a bit of plot-sex scene-forget the plot add another sex scene-a bit of plot-sex scene. For a change up …

July 23, 2010 – 2:50 am | By Descartes | Posted in book review | Tagged anita blake, batcave, blow by blow, circus, cuddy, dracula, exposition, finial, frontier, gratuitous sex, kryptonite, laurell k hamilton, loose ends, orgies, phone messages, porn style, sex scene, sex scenes, superman | Comments (3)

Here we go again

I have started and deleted a couple of blogs now. There is an odd kind of satisfaction that comes from writing something and then making it go away. It’s that feeling all writers share. In the good old days this was best expressed with a wastepaper basket surrounded by crumpled paper. Of course, no one …

January 30, 2007 – 10:07 pm | By Descartes | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged andy rooney, blank book, blog, blogs, clean slate, crumpled paper, dr pepper, finial, london, long time, manual typewriter, new hampshire, new novel, odd kind, old man of the mountain, satisfaction, spare time, wastepaper basket | Comments (0)

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