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The internet. My maternal grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's during my senior year of high school, and so leaving town for two years wasn't an option; both of my brothers had left and my dad was transitioning from the military to civilian life, and so my mom would have effectively been left alone to take care of her if I had gone anywhere. Instead, I ended up as the group of internet pioneers who helped pave the way for the Bloggernacle as we know it.

I live next door to a major military base. It's common to see military service members of *both* genders come to church wearing their uniform, a result of their either just coming off of duty or having to report for duty once they get out and not having time to change beforehand. As such, I can't think of anyone who has issues with seeing women wearing the uniform-mandated pants. It's also common for people to show up in everyday clothes because they're moving in or out and their Sunday stuff is packed. The US military reserves the right to shuffle service members around as there is a need for them at one base or another, meaning that some service members can relocate as often as every six months.

A question, if I may. I'm trying to set up a YouTube page -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEFbjapoK23Gjukt4hdfrA - in support of the weekly newspaper column I'm doing. I'm setting it up so that I can cover things that I either don't have room to cover in the space of my column or that otherwise need some sort of special - and more prompt - attention. Does anyone else here have one? If so, can I get some advice on how to curate it and grow it? Thanks.

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Snowden. People were pitching it as a sleeper, but it's actually a snoozer. It's over two hours long, and a horrific percentage of that time is narration and exposition instead of acting things out. Couple this with the overly long ending, and I had trouble staying awake.

I've had a mustache since junior high, and went to a full-on van dyke as soon as I got out of high school. Not only did it help keep me visibly separate from two classmates who people kept confusing me with, it also helped conceal the fact that my jaw's misshapen.

I found it to be pretty well disposable as a film, to be honest. Not something I'd recommend. Edit - And anyone with knowledge of what was going on (such as proper interrogation technique) will see the "twists" coming far in advance.

After the flops that were "Don't Breathe" and "Morgan", I decided not to try for three-in-a-row with a drama that could so easily have been melodramatic. Hence my decision to go see a kids' movie.

The English dub of "The Wild Life", released elsewhere in German and/or under the title "Robinson Crusoe". It's a fun little kid-friendly rendering of the "Crusoe" tale, and the English dub has the benefit of Sandy Fox in a major role.

The whole thing was supposed to be an expose of the decadence and hypocrisy that was rampant among the upper classes during that period in time. Gatsby literally became wealthy just so he could flaunt it in front of a woman who ignored him while he was poor.

Saw "Morgan" earlier. You're better off not seeing it. Just trust me on this one.

If you have time and nobody's afoot, go to YouTube and look up "Hugh Mungous" or "Hugh Mungus". A special snowflake and her camera crew went to attend a public forum about whether or not to allocate funding for a new police facility. The actual media chose to interview a man who spoke in favor of the police, and so the snowflake decided to challenge him on the point. When asked his name, the guy - who didn't want to deal with her - simply said that his name was "Hugh Mungous". The snowflake flipped the snot out, accusing him of sexually harassing her. Her massive screaming fit ensued, at which point building security asked her to leave. She responded by accusing the security officials of assisting in her harassment. There are a lot of commentary videos in addition to the raw footage itself; most of those videos I've seen were NSFW, but I admit that a number of them were hilarious.

If you have time and nobody's afoot, go to YouTube and look up "Hugh Mungous" or "Hugh Mungus". A special snowflake and her camera crew went to attend a public forum about whether or not to allocate funding for a new police facility. The actual media chose to interview a man who spoke in favor of the police, and so the snowflake decided to challenge him on the point. When asked his name, the guy - who didn't want to deal with her - simply said that his name was "Hugh Mungous". The snowflake flipped the snot out, accusing him of sexually harassing her. Her massive screaming fit ensued, at which point building security asked her to leave. She responded by accusing the security officials of assisting in her harassment. There are a lot of commentary videos in addition to the raw footage itself; most of those videos I've seen were NSFW, but I admit that a number of them were hilarious.

I'm a movie reviewer, and so it's part of my job to periodically see such movies. The MPAA ratings are a rough guideline, but barring a few specific examples (like "Saints and Soldiers" [1] or "The Transformers: The Movie" [2]) it'll still put you in the ballpark. As far as I'm concerned, the issue is "what is the movie selling above and beyond its content?". For example, just the other day I saw a documentary on the rise and fall of pivotal studio Cannon Films; the documentary included a fair bit of footage from some of Cannon's more notable films, and so got its "R" by proxy because so many of the films it showed off were "R" or the equivalent thereof at the time the film under discussion was first released. It would be difficult to discuss some of these films without including the clips (especially since during the 1970s and early 1980s Cannon made it a point to push the limit as far as content went), and so the people who produced it were in a bind in that sense. I've also seen a few PG-13 and R-rated films that were pretty well masterpieces, but given the setting and circumstances (for example, "war drama") there was no way to actually pull it off without having at least some degree of content that people would find inappropriate or even offensive. In contrast, I've also seen PG movies that I wouldn't take children to, either because the content is inappropriate for what is supposed to be a "family" film, the message being presented is unconscionable, or something else to that effect. This is why people need to do their own digging and make their own decisions. [1] A key scene in the movie involves a named character being taken out by a sniper because he inadvertently exposed himself during a smoke break. The scene is meant to be shocking, but the MPAA reportedly found it so shocking that they were going to give the movie an "R" because of it even though it was in line with the other violent sequences in the film. This led to a fight between the production company and the MPAA, who finally agreed to give the film a more appropriate PG-13. [2] Even though a number of named characters die violently throughout the course of the film, the characters were all robots and so the MPAA didn't take their deaths quite so seriously. The writers had to add two curse words to push it to PG status, but the film was dropped back to a G after one of the two words was deleted from the US Theatrical cut of the film. As a result, parents were unwittingly taking their kids to a movie full of carnage, mayhem, and destruction without realizing how bad it was since the MPAA dropped the ball.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/horrified-by-trump-democrats-getting-nostalgic-about-romney/ar-BBvYZpO?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout Now that it's even odds Trump will take the White House, the Democrats are going out of their way to hand-wave all of the hateful, bigoted, and ignorant things they said about Romney in order to make him seem like a nice guy and a far better alternative than Trump. Yeah.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37155060 The German government has officially issued a statement instructing its citizens to start stockpiling water and supplies, enough at least for 10 days.

On Friday I went to see "Kubo". It might be a bit too intense for younger children, but it's very much worth the price of admission. This morning, meanwhile, I saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Boogaloo:_The_Wild,_Untold_Story_of_Cannon_Films , a documentary on the controversial but game-changing Cannon Films.

Because we can't forget about the good news going on in the world. ** http://hunterbradley.tumblr.com/post/148950345688/something-amazing-happened-yesterday-august-13 For those that don't know, the Power Rangers franchise is still a thing. The current season has actor Yoshi Sudarso as the Blue Ranger. This past weekend was the annual official fan convention for the franchise. A big highlight event involved the current cast members coming up on stage and announcing the cast members for the next season. Yoshi's successor as Blue Ranger? His brother Peter. None of the current cast members were told the identities before the official announcements, meaning that the whole thing was set up to surprise Yoshi with the news that his brother had made it in as well. (Given that Yoshi's character spent generations in suspended animation, and that Yoshi and Peter bear a strong family resemblance, I'm already seeing fans of the franchise asking about the prospect of the show having Peter's character be officially declared a descendant of Yoshi's character in order to have a family relationship in the show as well.)

Pete's Dragon (2016) - First time in a while (re: "The Equalizer") I've seen a remake that can stand on its own two legs.

At the same time, however, people are excused from fasting if they have a medical condition that prevents them from doing so. As things like diabetes and exhaustion go up - medical conditions that make fasting difficult - I would imagine that we'll see fewer people fasting and so fewer offerings accordingly.

I saw "Suicide Squad" over the weekend. The long and short of it is that you need at least some degree of passing familiarity with the original source material, as there's not a lot of time to fully develop out most of the characters.

You're forgetting the Round Rock Express: http://www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t102 The Express is Round Rock's very own Minor League Baseball team.

I'm about 3 hours northwest of San Antonio if you go by I-35 / US Highway 190.

One manga I've been hearing a lot about is "Sweetness and Lightning." The manga just got an English translation, and the anime is airing now in Japan. The premise is that a high school math teacher is forced to become a single father to a 5-year-old girl after his wife is killed in an accident. The poor guy's so overwhelmed between work and raising the girl himself that they're pretty well living off of takeout and whatever he can get at the local convenience store since he doesn't have a whole lot of time for cooking anything beyond the basics. Things change when he discovers that one of his students belongs to a family that owns a small but profitable family restaurant. The student wants to be a chef some day, but her mother's aspirations of greatness for the facility has resulted in the woman spending more time with her clientele than her own daughter and so she's not being taught what she needs to know to actually take over. The teacher agrees to hire the student on as a cook, something that helps everyone out. The teacher and the girl are now guaranteed at least one home-cooked meal a day, even if it is trial-and-error. The student, meanwhile, now has a resume and her own cookbook of from-scratch recipes she can honestly claim to have developed on her own. Much of the manga and anime is, as you can imagine, given over to cooking; the manga prints the recipes at the end of each chapter where the cooking takes place, while the anime makes it a point to slow those scenes down enough for people to follow along at home.