Jersey, I’ll be back in a week… don’t screw anything up while I’m away… stay tuned for pictures… I can’t wait to see Big Tom and Barb and also for them to meet Abbe.

Movie reviews…

Same Time, Next Year – this is another film that I feel like an idiot for not seeing sooner. I’m a big Alan Alda fan (probably mostly because my parents both liked him so much growing up). Such a great movie, lots of laughs and the scene of Alda’s character talking about his son’s death in Vietnam, just tore me apart.

Control – this Pygmalion-ish movie wasn’t horrible, but I did find myself snickering at some of the piss-poor dialogue and passable acting. I’ve read some reviews that this movie is better than expected, but I’m not willing to grade movies on a curve, just because the rest of modern filmmaking sucks so hard.

Book review…

How We Decide – ultimately, this book is a slightly less arrogant version of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The author explores the frontal cortex involvement of our choices and the difficulty we all have with emotionally complex decisions. I enjoyed the book, but the book’s conclusion that some decisions are better made rationally and sometimes people make emotionally correct or incorrect decisions… well, I kinda already knew that.

• New Mexico Soccer Player Banned After beating up a lot of Mormons… I’m flying into New Mexico tomorrow, I hope I don’t run into Elizabeth Lambert… she seems kinda mean. If I do see her, I’m going to ask if she skates, Flyers could use a little more toughness.

Links for my geeky homies…

• Big Ben on Twitter

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