After a year of bizarre behavior following his retirement from moviemaking, the long-rumored film “I’m Sill Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix” is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow. I am dying to hear the reviews of Casey Affleck’s directorial debut. Here is a trailer: Maybe we will finally have the answer […]

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Had a great Martini at Bonefish Grill in Knoxville. It’s called a Watermelon Tiki or Fresh Watermelon Martini. The drink is hand-muddled fresh watermelon, fresh sour and house-made cucumber vodka infusion. Here is the mixology, that the waitress was kind enough to share: 2 pieces watermelon muddled 2 ounces FRÏS Vodka infused with cucumber Splash […]

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Huffington Post puts together a series of stories where social media has lead to arrests and firings: Arrested Over Twitter: 8 Tweets That Got People SNAGGED Twitterers and non-Twitterers alike often grumble that the many tweets are fluffy nonsense–posts about what we ate for breakfast, complaints about the weather, and other… Arrested Over Facebook: 19 […]

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I am not typing these words. I am actually saying them out loud. I am trying out a new program called Dragon Naturally Speaking, it lets me dictate my speech into text. Pretty cool, I must say. Unfortunately I have nothing to say right now.

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I work hard. I get up in the morning and go to my office and work all day. Then after dinner and time with the family I go back to work until the wee hours of the morning before I crash and do it all over again the next day. I have a full-time job, […]

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Should we be nervous when such a visionary intellect as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawkings says we need to abandon Earth or face extinction? Hawkings says, “It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn’t have all its […]

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I was going to say camping, since I just returned from a wonderful three day camping trip with our really great friends. But despite all the fun we had, when it comes right down to it – my love of camping really all comes from the hallowed tradition of the campfire. There is simply nothing […]

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