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We saw Spidey tonight : some spoiler

July 23rd, 2004 · 2 Comments

Thanks again to Grandma, we made it to the movie theater on the last night of Spidey 2’s island run. I liked this second movie better than the first one although I am grateful we had rented the DVD recently. The characters wrestled and changed more, the heroes and villains grew deeper in dimensions, the […]

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Back in time

July 11th, 2004 · Comments Off on Back in time

Michael Hanscom reviewed the film De-Lovely: One question, though: fashions have been reaching into the past for “retro” looks for the past couple decades, with a lot of emphasis on the 70’s and 80’s. Could we please cast a little further back so that the fashions of the 30’s and 40’s would come back into […]

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How we saw Spidey

July 5th, 2004 · 4 Comments

One hour after the kids went to bed… One hour during the kids’ nap the next day. Yep, we were watching the DVD of the first Spiderman film, playing on Ted’s 20″ monitor. At least we got to see Spiderman, even if it was an older version. At our stage of life, you gotta be […]

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To be metaefficient

June 7th, 2004 · Comments Off on To be metaefficient

Dan Gillmor also linked to MetaEfficient, a guide to “the most efficient things in the world” – everything from waterless urinals to heirloom tomatoes to biodegradable dinnerware. Although I’m still recovering from my diaper decision, I’m hoping to take a longer look through here and find some ideas I can implement. Perhaps I’ll start saving […]

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“Who said you had to be only one or the other?”

May 26th, 2004 · Comments Off on “Who said you had to be only one or the other?”

What Joey deVilla wrote in Almost 30 years later and I still don’t belong woke me up this morning – with tears. I can’t say I’ve had Joey’s experiences or anything like them. But there’s something in the stories he shared, something that I feel I understand a little from my life, somewhere inside me. […]

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