Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies — Taxi Driver

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After last week’s look at Raging Bull, I couldn’t resist another batch of reviews from the one star minds glowering at Taxi Driver (1976), another Martin Scorsese film. Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster the two most overrated actors, and Cybil Shepard was sleeping with a big Hollywood producer at the time. The actor that should [...]

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How Bruce Springsteen learned what’s most important to the economy

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While working on a writing project, I had to create a transcript of a 1998 interview that Charlie Rose had with Bruce Springsteen. This is an answer he gives in the 60 minute interview, about the central idea in his writing: work. My music, because of what I wrote about, always had political implications. I [...]

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Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies — Raging Bull

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I’m just learning how to edit some compelling posts with this new feature. At first I thought all the classics would have great (read: head knocker) one star reviews, but that wasn’t the case with Casablanca. There were no reviews composed on planet I’m-On-My-Meds-I-Really-Am. Here’s a more controversial film, Raging Bull. Now that has to [...]

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Join a CSA and you’re going to know A LOT about the food source

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I received Riverland Currents this morning, the weekly newsletter from the CSA (community supported agriculture) I joined this year. It was interesting, though not exactly what I was expecting. Actually, I’m not sure what I was expecting. Maybe news about how a tractor broke down, the weather was too hot or too cold, too wet [...]

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Local television news will show a lot, but tell you little about a tornado

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Do ever feel like you know less about what’s happening in your community after watching television for a few minutes. That happened to me when I was watching the local news stations, WWLP, WGGB, and CBS3, about the tornado that ripped through Western Massachusetts. It’s often true, we do know less, or at least no [...]

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Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies — The Godfather

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I have a new feature for you: once or twice a week you’ll find Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies. People think strange sometimes. They don’t always agree with the movie critics, directors, and the historians that the American Film Institute pulls together to create their top 100 lists [Wikipedia]. Sometimes people are just [...]

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Revealed 20 Years Ago On The Appalachian Trail, Discovered Again This Week

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I’m writing a book about being a successful adventurer (more about that in the coming weeks), based on my Appalachian Trail thru-hike 20 years ago. Part of the research has been to look back at journal entries and letters that I wrote at the time. Sometimes it’s inspiring reading, and other times sad. Here’s a [...]

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