Archive for July, 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
State of Play
Wow! Forget NCIS. Forget CSI. Forget Law and Order. SEE STATE OF PLAY!! This has got to be one of Russell Crowe’s best pictures. There is a slight resemblance to All the President’s Men with a touch of The Manchurian Candidate and a dash of Haliburton thrown in - classic but totally up to date [...]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Shout out to Blacksburg Reads and The Easy Chair Empire
We received some nice comments from Russell Chisholm at the Easy Chair Coffee Shop and Blacksburg Reads Used Books that got deleted along with all our other comments. I just wanted to post a link to his site here and say thanks for his support!!
http://blacksburgreads.com
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
What the …….
Somehow all the comments have disappeared! I don’t know if it was me or Qwerty the Computer God or what but all the comments have disappeared. Please keep responding and hopefully the comments won’t disappear again, although this has happened before. I welcome any and all comments.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Is Anybody There?
I don’t think so. When I was in high school my garage band used to play a song by the Who - My Generation. The tag line was “hope I die before I get old.” That seems to be the major premise in Is Anybody There. There is no middle ground in this movie. There [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Live @ The Lyric Fall Season
Live @ The Lyric! We’re gearing up for a wild and crazy fall season and you won’t want to miss it. We have a GREAT line up of four acts that really knocks my socks off.
First, the American Shakespeare Center is bringing Romeo and Juliet to our stage. Direct from the Blackfriar’s Playhouse in Staunton, [...]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The Bothers Bloom
First a spoiler alert - I am in love with Rachel Weisz’s character Penelope.
Now that I have got that off my chest, if you haven’t seen The Brothers Bloom, GO SEE IT! What a great movie. I am guessing you need to see it at least twice, since as much happens in the background as [...]
