My wife made chocolate mousse pie with our Christmas dinner this year and it was absolutely delicious!

Prime rib has become a Christmas dinner tradition in my house. Delicious!

I love this album! In my opinion Ministry really hasn’t been worth much since the Psalm 69 album. Great album for the band to call it quits on.

“veiled” spoiler alert!

Best Cohen movie in my opinion! Far better than No Country for Old Men. The movie delves into paranoia, online dating, random acquantances, infidelity…

The funniest thing about the movie is at the end when the “case” is discussed and the heroine “achieves her goal.” It’s too bad the Cohens won all their accolades last year…this movie was far better!

I thought there might be a romance angle to the movie but it was the dominating theme. It must be the fact that I’m a male that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy this movie as my wife surely did.

I expected more of a historical angle to the movie but that’s what I expect from great period-based films. Ralph Fiennes does do a great job playing the heartless Duke.

I believe this is the only book I’ve ever read that actually made me laugh out loud. An absolutely wonderful book…

Attempts have been made to turn the book into a movie several times, but have never been finalized for release. Interesting story about how the book first came to be published too – the author committed suicide and his mother convinced publishers to take it on.

I really liked it even though the movie didn’t left some plot questions open (the loom). I figure it left that question unanswered to leave room for a sequel.

The story was really cool – reminded me of Fight Club a bit with the whole “F* everybody” sort of attitude throughout. I’d definitely recommend this movie to anybody but the squeamish (and members of PETA…lol).

Details a huge event in American history – the Columbian Exposition of 1893 – as well as a serial killer who may have claimed more victims than any other. These events have certainly faded from memory as the people who experienced them died off long ago. The repercussions of the grand expo were immense – from the mundane zipper to the ubiquitous Ferris wheel at every county fair all can claim roots to the 1893 Chicago fair. Larson spent countless hours meticulously researching the events of the time period. It’s really a story about two main “characters” – “Holmes” the killer and the exposition itself. Much of the tale tells the story of how the exposition (barely) came together and pulled of the greatest show on Earth. Reading about the exploits of Holmes, who has also attained legendary status but isn’t mentioned much among the other modern killers, made me think that serial killers have existed as long as time itself. It was the personality of the monster that created the killer – he had a need and fulfilled that need. Only in recent times, because of modern technology, have we been able to catch these most horrific criminals. Previously, killers like Holmes – who almost wasn’t caught, slipped underneath the radar. I really liked how the author would throw in a line at the end of a chapter that would allude to a later happening in the story, without giving away what would happen – it definitely kept me turning the pages. The fact that it was rooted in real history and had the true crime angle along with the triumph of great men made this a great book for me. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes either genre.