This is Finn’s new favorite movie. Teen romance at a surf wave pool in colorado. WAY overacted and you gotta love the 80’s hairdoos but fun fun fun. Kids love it.

but this is just too pithy and misty eyed. Did not connect. Rate 2 of 5 stars. give it a pass.

boring. Give it a skip. 1 of 5 stars.

i only finished it because I was on a plane. Too English. Not very engaging. Boring really.

it was on the sale rack. 30% off. I picked it up without checking that it was non-fiction. I just wanted a page turner for the plane. This is definitely not a page turner. It reads more like a long news paper article. Filled with facts, figures, dates and lots of names of people you never get to know enough to care. Billed as an indictment of the death penalty and an expose of small town injustice and railroading, I just thought it was boring. Sure one in a thousand cases happen like this but that doesn’t mean the vast majority of people on death row don’t deserve to be there. One bad case doesn’t indict the whole system. The checks and balances worked here. The guy is free. He didn’t get electrocuted.

If you are looking for a studied argument for or against the death penalty keep looking. And Grisham, leave the true crime to people who are good at it. You are not. I rate 1 of 5 stars. Leave this one in the bargin bin.

More engaging. Less transparent. Some engaging action around street kids life in Seattle. Seattleites will especially enjoy it. As will people interested in the Jesuits. I rate 3 of 5. Left this one in Nihiwatu.

his first book. if you are from northwest especially seattle, alot will be familiar. A bit formuleaic. Lots of “i had no clue what was going on” in the book to drag the plot out. You don’t need that. Just tell the story. I left it in my hotel in Bali. I rate 2 of 5 stars.

Can’t watch this movie enough times. The 70’s background gets better and better. The hair, the vneck sweater under tweed jacket with elbow patches like a professor. But the 44 Magnum in a shoulder holster. Movies today are missing lines like “do you feel lucky punk”. I believe there is an error in the end of the movie though. During the last shoot out I was counting his shots. He shot 6 times. Then he gave his line about “5 or 6 shots, do you feel lucky?” and shot the guy. by my count that is seven. I gotta watch it again to be sure. Wouldn’t doubt that the director just did that to mess with the audience. I rate 4 of 5 stars.

ok so it was a couple summers ago, but just caught it on HBO in my Bali hotel room. Mindless fun and action. Don’t really like Tom Cruise, but this is fun. I rate 3 of 5 stars.

There are lots of doom and destruction books out there painting a bleak picture of the post industrial world. Most paint a kind of Mad Max future of renegades. I am not sure that is how it would go. I think it would be more a slow steady slide with people hanging on all the way down, mostly in denial. That is what Kunstler sees. The story starts 15 years after a big bomb destroys NYC and LA. Not unthinkable in today’s terrorist world. The infrastructure just sort of breaks slowly. Various diseases run rapid. Transportation fails due to lack of oil. Do you know that the overstuffed grocery store next to you only has about two days worth of goods? If the distribution system breaks down, the food runs out QUICK! Look what happened during Katrina. That was not the future, that was the recent past! And Burma. The only reason these regions survived is that the greater organism (the US, the whole world) was still healthy and could provide life support to the damaged part. How many bleeding sores can one country have at a time? Can one world have at a time? There is a tipping point somewhere. We haven’t found it yet and I pray we never do. But if you want to see one VERY plausible vision of how the world would be with multiple open sores coming quickly next to each other, read this book. I rate 5 out of 5.