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    Hanna

    My two movie-going friends and I saw it today -- now we're all females, but we like action-suspense flicks. We thought this was an entertaining flick and kept the tension up pretty well throughout -- could have used a bit tighter editing through the middle. A few sections were 'coming of...
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    Paleo Diet: Eat like a predator, not like prey.

    This is like the Zone diet mega-simplified and written with a -- gasp -- sense of humor. I buy it about 75%, which is pretty good. Decades ago I discovered that the single best thing I could do for myself was to eat a chunk of protein to start the day. Long before Zone diet or Adkins or...
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    Kindle

    No headaches at all -- and because of the ability to increase font size, much less eye fatigue for my also aging eyes than paperback books. I also have the 'kindle for pc' software, so I keep my own back-up library.
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    83rd Annual Oscars

    The King's Speech was an old-style movie, so I was surprised it won, but it really was a beautifully done film -- well-written, brilliantly acted by pretty much everyone -- Colin Firth has been a favorite of mine since his mere character-actor days -- very subtly directed (which is increasingly...
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    Kindle

    OK, I did find myself fuming a bit at my kindle this past weekend. I was trying to do an exercise involving analyzing plot development in several books I like to see similarities, and not being able to put simple stickies on paper pages was a pain; also, some books do the chapter-jumps and there...
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    Credit Card Security Breaches

    LVG and conrad, thanks -- that's very sensible info, esp conrad's caution about screwing up my credit. I will work over my computer, change passwords, and notify the other major card I use, and look into the credit/identity monitoring thing -- I think CapOne offers one at a fee, and their fraud...
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    Credit Card Security Breaches

    About a 4-5 weeks ago I was contacted by Capital One to verify some purchases on my CC. They're slick the way they do it, run a bunch of innocuous ones by you and then slip in the "WTF!?!" one -- I apologized for being so snotty while they asked me about the normal ones (I mean, if they don't...
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    Kindle

    OK, I was one of those, but have had a kindle for about 4 months and I LUV it. It's a simple, plain-old reading experience! I am reading MORE than before- and not like I ever hesitated to buy books. I... I almost prefer the kindle experience. I never lose my place! Picture books, things like...
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    D-Backs sign Micah Owings

    You know what I think? If Upton played for any other team, he'd blossom into a stud, if not a true superstar. It's not Upton - it's the organization.
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    Opal Apple

    Anybody had one of these babies? Big deep golden yellow with a copper-pink blush... I thought they were just fancified Golden Delicious, but in fact they are a cross of GD with Topaz apple, been in the works for 12 years and just commercially released last year. Plant patent means very...
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    White Collar (USA)

    I am SO happy WC is back on with new episodes again. No question -- much as I like some other shows, this is definitely my favorite series anywhere on TV.
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    The Ghost Writer

    Had its moments, but I thought it dragged terribly, and was predictable, or maybe telegraphed too much.
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    The Vampire Diaries (CW)

    OK, glad to see my newest guilty pleasure has a few other adult fans. I watched a rerun a few weeks ago when I came down with a now-going-on-3-weeks chest cold and couldn't get myself off the couch, and then taped and watched a couple episodes, and now... am 100% hooked. The last vampire stuff I...
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    10 Westerns you shouldn't miss!

    I'd drop DwW into the 10-20 list for sure; didn't see tAoJJ. I'd have to have Tombstone, Unforgiven, Magnificent Seven on my top ten list. And although it wasn't a movie, the miniseries Lonesome Dove is my #1 all-time top Western.
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    10 Westerns you shouldn't miss!

    Weird list.
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    Black Swan

    You hate All That Jazz?! One of my top all-time movies. But anyway, yeah, the blurring and reversal of dreams/reality, the self-destructive obsession with perfection, the inability to connect with or trust a single soul -- made me also think of Juliet of the Spirits.
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    Black Swan

    Really an outstanding movie, intelligent, and quite a ride. Everyone was excellent, film is visually compelling, very well-paced. It's a dark film psychologically, but I didn't find it depressing or bleak in the slightest. Reminded me just a little bit of Fellini, or maybe All That Jazz in...
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Been snowing off and on here at Dynamite/Scottsdale area since late morning. Sticks for a couple minutes, but not cold enough to let it accumulate - my porch thermometer says 38 degrees. We had 2" rain in the past 24 hours -- imagine if that had been snow! I covered all my veggies under a...
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    Kindle or IPad?

    Really? I've had no problem with my leather cover, and love the protection it offers. I'll have to check this out. BTW, I adore my kindle.
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    The Tourist

    Never been to Venice, but its on my todo list. I adored Florence and was very taken with several smaller cities like Arezzo and Sienna. Rome was too much in too short a time and I was coming down w/a cold, but I'd like to have time to explore. But...how's the flick?
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    Documentaries

    I almost never go to big-film documentaries anymore, because I don't like the smug or self-important message-shoving they often seem to have. On the other hand, I'm surprised how much I like some of the lesser-known documentaries when I watch them on TV later on. Last night I watched one that...
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    Red

    OK, finally saw it, and enjoyed it enormously. Heck --worth going just to see Helen Mirren with an Uzi. Her performance made the movie, in fact.
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    Your Top 5 TV Shows on right now...

    update: Fringe The Closer Burn Notice then lagging way behind... NCIS LA Criminal Minds The friend who turned me on to Fringe says Nikita is pretty good. Anyone have a sense of it?
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    Best Pumpkin Muffin

    Yep, which is why I was going to say probably Starbuck's pumpkin cream cheese muffins. Their Zucchini Walnut muffins are my absolute favorites, although they are only about 2/3rds the size they were a few years ago.
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    Hawaii 5-0 (Re-make)

    Bo-ring.

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