I think I liked American Hustle more than you did, stone, but I completely agree with these assessments: Christian Bale was great. Jennifer Lawrence was miscast, appearing like a teenager dressing up as an adult. Amy Adams was fine, and so was Renner, but also miscast. Bradley Cooper is an actor wi...

Food (or food preparation) and animal (insect, bird, wooly mammoth, whatever) references are fun and take up space too. When I wrote reviews for Cadence , I used to fight with Bob Rusch a lot: "Please don't send me that kind of stuff, Bob. I don't know the first fucking...

I did find this there:

Fitnessapparaten kopen, crosstrainer kopen of een loopband kopen

So I farted around with the loopband kopen. So thanks!

Yes, I think so. We don't have a room for it, so I stand it up in the corner of our den when it's not in use. It's huge and heavy, and it pisses my wife off having it there. But as I mentioned I have bad feet/ankles, so I need a sit-down aerobic thingy, and I hate swimming. I got it for...

Do you guys find rowing tough on the neck? Maybe I hunch my shoulders, though I try not to, but I often get (mild) cervical strains from rowing. (I have a Neptune.)

I heard one British pundit on the radio say something like this: "You don't understand, the Russian elite has never been to Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan--they don't care about those places one way or the other. But the Crimea is quite different. That's where they vacationed regularly; ...

Curious what people have to say about this. Is it like Obama saying "You know, 2/3 of the people living in Vancouver are actually American and would prefer to be part of the U.S. (you can ask them!) so I'm going to annex Vancouver"? And then the Mounties try to come in from Qu...

I think (don't want to jinx this) I'm going to be teaching a course on ethics at Framingham State this fall. I'm planning to retire from my Div. of Ins. job in 2017, and I want to line up some adjunct work so I'll have something to do in my retirement besides eat and watch t...

I get most of my exercise from my commute, which can require a lot of walking if I don't take any buses, and rely only on the train between Cambridge and Boston. But this winter has made it all but impossible keep up. I've suffered from frequent/chronic ankle strains all my life because of ...