When I was in third grade, I really wanted to see the movie
Blank Check. My parents, on the other hand, weren’t so thrilled. Eventually, I convinced them to rent it for me and I loved it. As expected, they didn’t. Honestly, in my childhood mind, I didn’t understand why. But then I re-watched it this year and it all made total sense.
Blank Check is geared entirely to kids in every way imaginable with no logical reasoning built into the story whatsoever. And who remembers
Blank Check? No one.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie ultimately makes the same mistake...
Unless you’re one of the lucky few who gets to parade around in the bride and groom inner circle, weddings are atrocious affairs, filled with sitting, waiting and talking with strangers you’d more than likely avoid in everyday life. And, much like the seven circles of hell, the further you get away from the wedding party, the more the torment increases until you’re just not sure why you showed up in the first place.
This is the genius behind the idea of
Table 19, a quirky and awkward indie-wannabe comedy starring Anna Kendrick. Unfortunately, any initial greatness the idea possessed dies upon implementation and is tossed in its own leper colony...
The Upshot, a visual journalism project of the New York Times, released an
interactive map showing the allegiances of baseball fans across the country. Using Facebook "likes" plugged into zip codes it was able to produce a percentage breakdown of favorite teams on a rather precise scale. As expected, the domain of the Twins covers Minnesota (or almost all of it, more on this), most of the Dakotas and snags hand-fulls of counties in the border regions of Nebraska, Iowa and of...
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A version of the plaza, with light-rail, facing toward the stadium[/caption]
The design for the new Viking's stadium calls for a large open plaza. It will include a transit station for the light-rail, a wonderfully glassy entrance to the venue itself and a not so glassy view of the (also newly constructed) Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center (which will be directly across from the doors). Yet a large question mark remains: what will this plaza be called?
The proposed "Downtown East Plaza" isn't very catchy...
How do you approach the unapproachable? How do you describe the indescribable? How do you comprehend a paradox, hold it in a glass and force it down? I don’t have the answers, but Kentucky Dale might.
Cue inspirational John F. Kennedy quote:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one...
When I was in third grade, I really wanted to see the movie Blank Check. My parents, on the other hand, weren’t so thrilled. Eventually, I convinced them to rent it for me and I loved it. As expected, they didn’t. Honestly, in my childhood mind, I didn’t understand why. But then I re-watched it this year and it all made total sense. Blank Check is geared entirely to kids in every way imaginable with no logical reasoning built into the story whatsoever. And who remembers Blank Check? No one.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie ultimately makes the same mistake...
