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the bazaar of bad dreams

Stephen King rarely disappoints and this was not one of those times that he did. This was a collection of his short stories. The only negative here was that there were a few previously published stories in the book. But, there were also quite a few goodies in there. Reading …

goodnight mommy

This was an Austrian horror film. Europeans do horror very differently than Americans (see Martyrs). While this film wasn’t a 90 minute torture fest (it was only a 30 minute one), it definitely wasn’t like any American horror film that you might see. I thought the premise was pretty good–though …

crap

Early last week, we discovered that the toilet in our basement was clogged in a major way (using a plunger on it caused water to shoot out the base). We weren’t too concerned because we have other toilets and our main sewer line was still working, so it appeared that …

preparations

I’m a little behind on Christmas this year, but I’m glad to say that I’m done with shopping. I did 90% of it on Black Friday (from the comfort of my living room, thanks to Amazon). But, in an uncharacteristic move, my Christmas cards aren’t done yet. I briefly considered …

pulp fiction

We’re making Jake watch our top 13 films with us. We started with Pulp Fiction. It was as good as I remembered it. Jake saw parts of the movie in the past, but never in its entirety. Needless to say, he liked it. My rating: 4/5