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Pirates Attack French Navy

You have probably read the stupid criminal stories before. You know, like the bank robber that writes his hold up note on his deposit slip that contains all of his personal information. Today, I read an international stupid criminal headline on Yahoo…”Somali pirates attack French military flagship.” If you’ve been reading the news lately, you know that pirate attacks are on the rise, particularly off the coast of Somalia. We are not talking charming Jack Sparrow pirates, but honest to God modern day pirates. I really shouldn’t make fun of these pirates. I am sure their piracy is just an … Continue reading →

Top Ten Movies of the Summer

Autumn is literally right around the corner and in some areas it’s already started to cool down. It feels wonderful outside right now, a balmy 70 degrees, but with the advent of autumn comes the fall release of the summer movies to DVD. Now’s as good a time as any to review what was great about the summer of 2007 at the movies! Summer Fun The following top ten movies are compiled not by sales or record breaking figures but by one attribute and one attribute alone: how much fun were they? 10. Spiderman 3 – Peter Parker won our … Continue reading →

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi

If you have even a speck of adventure in your soul, you will enjoy “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by master storyteller Avi. Charlotte Doyle was raised to be a proper lady. At the age of thirteen, she knows how to dress, act, and behave in a genteel fashion, just as her parents have always hoped. But when she is thrown, unprepared, into treacherous situations, she has to decide for herself how to get out of them. Charlotte was scheduled to sail aboard the Seahawk, a ship belonging to her father’s firm, which would take her from her home … Continue reading →

Parker, Pirates & Potter: What A Summer Awaits Us

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Yesterday, Spiderman 3 opened all over the country and kicks off what is likely to be a hot summer of great movies. It’s been many years since I saw a summer at the box office that awaits us this year. Among those top features are Peter Parker returning in the third installment of Spiderman, Harry Potter in the fifth film in this beloved series Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix and for Disney fans, already excited by Meet the Robinsons from earlier this spring will be delighted to see Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner coming back … Continue reading →

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

One of the most beloved children’s movies of all time, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” is a fanciful tale based on the novel by Ian Fleming, which was published in 1964. Our main character is Caractacus Potts, played by Dick Van Dyke. Potts is a widower, struggling to raise his two imaginative children on his own. However, they come by their imaginations honestly – Potts is an inventor, and his creations are anything but ordinary. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a broken down race car that once held a place of honor as a three-time Grand Prix winner. Jeremy and Jemima … Continue reading →

Dream a Little Dream Job For Me!

When I first heard about this contest on Career Builder, I wasn’t sure that I took it seriously and to the hundreds of entrants who submitted their videos and the almost 1 million votes cast by visitors to contest hosted by Career Builder for the Dream “Job” at Disney – please accept my apologies. From this large pool of entrants, there are 25 finalists on their way to the Disneyland Resort in June. A Haunted Mansion Butler/Maid contestant’s video received almost 50,000 votes and a Princess-in-Waiting video received over 70,000 votes. 70,000 votes. Can you imagine? These contestants were entering … Continue reading →

Return to Neverland (2002)

In “Return to Neverland,” Wendy Darling is all grown up and married with two children of her own, Jane and Daniel. She tells them stories about Peter Pan every night, never forgetting the magical time she spent with him when she was a girl. But the world is becoming a scary place. World War II has just broken out and her husband has gone off to fight. Trying to keep her children entertained, she continues the stories, but her daughter struggles to believe. Jane is a very practical girl, and the war has made her even more so. She doesn’t … Continue reading →

Ahoy Captain – Spam Bots on the Horizon!

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Okay, so I think I’m a lot funnier than I really am, what can I say? Today, I wanted to talk about spam bots, and why it is that people write their e-mail addresses so strangely (myself is included in that bunch.) First off, spam bots are not large metallic robots crawling all over spam, although that picture is a bit closer to the truth than you might think. Spam bots are programs (robots without the metal body) that are sent out onto the world wide web to search for e-mail addresses. Every time they find one, the data is … Continue reading →

Peter Pan (1953)

In this classic film by Walt Disney, we meet the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael. Wendy is the oldest and at the age of eleven, her parents have decided that she’s too old to sleep in the nursery. It’s to be her last night there and tomorrow she will move to her own room. All three children are devastated by this; every night Wendy tells them stories about the sprite Peter Pan, and if she’s not in the nursery any more, they won’t get their stories. What they don’t know is that one more person will be upset if … Continue reading →

“Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs” by Giles Andreae

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In “Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs” a little boy named Flinn becomes the captain of a ship and battles a ship full of dinosaurs including a pirate stegosaurus, pirate diplodocus, pirate triceratops, and a pirate pterodactyl. The captain of the pirate ship of course being a pirate tyrannosaurus rex. The story begins with Flinn in class coloring in a picture of a dinosaur. Flinn runs out of markers and heads into the supply closet to look for more. While in the closet he stumbles into Captain Stubble, crying in the back of the closet. The captain explains to Flinn … Continue reading →