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Story of a thought.
Yesterday, tired only in the way you can be after a night of free booze and wedding dancing, I sank deep into a plush couch until I could no longer move my arms enough to reach any one of the three remotes. Imagine little Randy in his bundles of winter coats rolling around helplessly in […]
Bottle Openers & Parisian Spring Nights
February 7, 2012
Inspired by CreativeWritingPrompts.com, prompt #1: Of all the things I brought back from my travels through Europe last Spring, the most outwardly boring is a bottle opener. Not the bottle opener I bought from the Stuttgart tourism shop that proves in images and words where I have been. That bottle opener is distinctly a souvenir […]
Over the Moon: A view of Hugo (2011)
December 8, 2011
When I learned of Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Hugo, I needed to know nothing more than the release date. It was only by accident that I discovered that the film is about a boy in an old Parisian train station who somehow connects with one of time’s earliest, real life filmmakers, Georges Méliés. We owe […]
The Real Life Boy Amélie
March 29, 2011
It’s an understatement to say that we’re all a bit inundated with viral videos, cute animal photos, and online celebrity gossip. This is not any of those. The videos below tell one of the most endearing, inspirational stories I’ve ever heard. They tell the story about one person who followed Adventure to a priceless end […]
October 14, 2012
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