Charlie Wilson’s War is a political black comedy about a hard-drinking, cocaine snorting, womanizing congressman who conspires with a CIA agent with a tendency to tell his superiors to go fuck themselves, along with the Saudis, Israelis, Egyptians, and Pakistanis to wage a secret guerilla war in Afghanistan. It might seem at home on [...]
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Charlie Really Did It
Posted in Movie Reviews, tagged Afghanistan, Charlie Wilson, Charlie Wilson's War, George Crile, movie review on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Golden Compass whirls so fast it will make you dizzy
Posted in Movie Reviews, tagged His Dark Materials, movie reveiw, Phillip Pullman, the golden compass on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I went to see The Golden Compass, which is based on the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman. I’d read the trilogy a while back and thought it was pretty good, in part because it didn’t try to be Tolkienesque epic fantasy, unlike so many [...]
A Phantom Ranch Christmas
Posted in Hiking and Backpacking, tagged Backpacking, Bright Angel, Grand Canyon, North Kaibab, Phantom Ranch, South Kaibab on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just before Christmas my parents and I hiked down and spent a couple of nights at Phantom Ranch. The plan was to hike down the South Kaibab, spend the next day doing a day hike, and hike back out the Bright Angel on the third day.
Down the Kaibab
We didn’t get going until about 11 [...]
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