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Archive for February, 2010

Email is a Zombie

I left my office tonight, grateful to have just barely escaped from the unceasing onslaught that is my email inbox. And as I stood — dazed and blinking into the late winter sun of the parking lot — I realized something.
Email is a zombie.

You can knock it off one by one, but it just keeps [...]

Capsule Movie Reviews

Alice in Wonderland
Pittsford Plaza 03.05.10
The word I left the theater with was "boring." Johhny Depp is a marvel, but there was little else there besides a handful of amazing visuals that I'd love to have as posters on my wall, but not as a 108-minute movie.

Edge of Darkness
Pittsford Plaza 02.03.10
Mel Gibson does a good angry face, but the British TV series this was based on was sooooo much better.

Crazy Heart
Pittsford Plaza 01.22.10
Loved the music, loved Jeff Bridges. But I'm sorry, Maggie Gyllenhaal nearly ruined it for me. Is it too much to ask the Bridges' character might fall for someone in, I don't know, maybe her *thirties* or something?

Sherlock Holmes
Pittsford Plaza 01.14.10
Completely ridiculous but oddly endearing. Sorta like Robert Downey Jr.

Up in the Air
Pittsford Plaza 01.01.10
Fantastic. So simple, so small, but kinda perfect. And very on point with the current economic situation.

Avatar
Pittsford Plaza 12.20.09
The day a filmmaker with an actual story to tell ("unobtanium?!" hilarious.) gets his or hands and this amazing visual technology, that will be something.

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