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Yeah, for an avid newspaper reader it may make the most sense, especially the big one. http://tinyurl.com/qtsprp --They do have the Wall Street Journal. $9.99/mo +the price of the Kindle... good news is you get it wirelessly wherever you are. I'm more a magazine guy and the screen isn't nearly the same experience. The most interesting thing in the last issue of Wired I read was a picture of a brain... I stared at that in disgusting full color for several minutes, transfixed, wouldn't have glanced twice at a 16-grayscale image of it.

I'd considered purchasing a Kindle, but just can't bring myself to pay for anything that is DRM-locked. Apple finally realized that wasn't the way to go for music--buying books for $10/ea that I can't give or lend, or potentially use on a different device in the future just doesn't appeal. The PDF support is a nice step in the right direction, but that they're not making it available to all Kindle 2 owners kinda sucks.

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Very nice! I'd have enjoyed the eye candy too but already had other plans. Too bad he's top only.

I agree, but that was kind of the point of the piece in the original too. Despite the importance of the first story (and the friendship) the story is the story no matter what, and it's the nature of the business for it to be displaced.

I'd add a couple things. You may well have the opposite problem of him cumming too quick, I didn't cum at all my first several times with escorts. He may well go soft, it's just nerves (or the condom), maybe give him a massage, try and give him time to relax into things. Again, it's not you, he'll probably cum buckets thinking about it afterwards. I'd say be patient but also be aggressive--he doesn't really know what he wants (or is too shy to say), it's up to you to show him. Escorts should also be prepared for the new client to shut down after cumming. Hell, as big a whore as I am I still do that sometimes... A "straight" guy doing it for the first time may be working through a lot of uncertainty and guilt, and this can hit extra strong once he's gotten what he wanted--and is still trying to deny he wanted it. Even if he was deep french kissing you minutes ago and begging for your cock I'd advice against trying to initiate a kiss or being extra... flamboyant in that sensitive time.

I'd seen the original UK series and was prepared to be disappointed. I wasn't. They managed to work in everything I could remember from the original, even made some things better--really liked the indictment of the Haliburton/KBR's of the world. The heart of the piece is the decline of journalism though, which is just as important a story. Some may feel it's talky and slow, but I feel it's a very well done tense political thriller--with twists and turns (like the original).

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Just sit REAL CLOSE to the TV and switch to a different channel whenever somebody's NOT trying to sell you something. That movie really hit a new low for blatent product placement. Really nothing to recommend it. There's maybe 5 tolerable minutes when Cleese is on camera, otherwise... FEH! The more I see and hear about the new Star Trek the more excited I am.

I believe it was intended as more of a miniseries (or like a UK show) than a regular show, though if they put it on Saturdays it probably won't have any shot of a follow on series. I've only seen the first 3 or so. Kinda intriguing... the most interesting part to me is that in this Kings alternative reality there's some kind of 'god' who actually gives a shit.

Damn it, out of town.

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I agree the movie left me feeling kinda lukewarm--it just doesn't make you care about the people enough (though I thought it was visually stunning and as close to the source material as was reasonably possible). But while I thought the actor was damn cute I didn't take the 'bad guy' as gay. Maybe a bit of an effeminate intellectual, but also pretty good at kicking ass. And maybe not even 'bad'... he saved the lives of billions. The fact that you aren't positive he was supposed to be gay says a lot. He's no lisping child-molester like the villain in the recent Rambo sequel. Anybody that found the story interesting really should pick up the graphic novel. I'm not that into comic books but The Watchmen has won the Hugo award (the only comic book to do so) and is on the Time magazine top 100-books list. And the author also wrote V for Vendetta--which is amazingly anti-homophobic and highly recommended.

I'm planning to be there.

I'm a big fan of Dean, would be kinda surprised if he's not popular among the Obama team, his DNC leadership made their election possible and he kinda started the internet grassroots they used so well... But as Secretary of HHS... I agree he may be a bit to abrasive though is otherwise well suited, Vermont's healthcare system sounded pretty sound when he was Governor. Daschel's a tool and his lobbying activities for healthcare should've disqualified him from the start.

The formula gets on my nerves sometimes. The way they definitively tell someone what's wrong with them--when we all know this time (and the next 3 tries) will be wrong... But the shows when they break that formula, like where they tell you what happened to his leg, or the one I saw tonight (syndicated) where they figure it out pretty quick but the guy's heart is shot so then they have to cure a dead woman (not of the death) so her heart can be transplanted are bloody brilliant. I don't watch it religiously but I've encouraged my Tivo to pick it up. Don't really see them in order but I've seen enough I know the general arc. As for my favorite show... I don't really have one at the moment, now that Boston Legal and The Wire are both done--at least on American TV. Several shows I watch and enjoy though, like BSG, Burn Notice, couple others. Downloading BBC stuff is another matter--love Top Gear and Torchwood.

Brad Pit is computer generated for about the first 3rd of the movie (mostly just the head though). It's pretty remarkable. The way the story meanders and doesn't manage to say anything kinda disappointed me. It's a lot like Forrest Gump except we're just passively watching, not involved and really caring about what's going on... I liked Queenie a lot too, so the way they paid so little attention to her at the end kind of annoyed me, and it was like the current spirit of post-racism was somehow magically extended back into the period Buttons was set in... Doubt had some great acting but again, in the end, what did it say that was worth saying? Best actress and maybe actor and supporting may be a lock though. I really liked Frost/Nixon. It's not a film for everyone, but I think anybody who enjoyed Doubt would like it. Gran Torino was another great accomplishment by Clint Eastwood, but I'd have liked to see some threads wrapped up a little more thoughtfully at the end. Spirit was schlocky crap. Samuel L. Jackson almost managed to take it so over the top it was good again, but didn't get there. Ended up a low-budget knockoff of Sin City, V, and 300. Day the Earth Stood Still, dear god, this may be studied in future film schools as a low in 21st century film making. Horribly disappointing because for about 20 seconds it has an truly important message. The scene with John Cleese is nearly magical. Then it abandons it to throw in another couple product placement shots--IN A ROW and go on another car chase.

Yeah, when I heard about the right-wing 'Thank you Sarah Palin' ads my first thought was if I was a millionare I'd run an ad thanking the radical right for ending themselves this election. I wish this one was a little better done but I like the point.

Even further than that, lost among all this nattering naysaying (seriously, get OVER Hillary) Biden is a constitutional law professor and there are a lot of things that need to be cleaned up with the wreckage Bush has left the checks and balances (not to mention Justice Department) in. So many times these last couple months I've wished somebody big on Obama's side would stand up and call out McCain and his cronies on their shit, so I'm ecstatic we have somebody so well-suited to the task, and it being the guy that had the wit to end Juliani's career by describing his answers to everything as "a noun, a verb and 9/11" is a great bonus. Especially as McCain's people keep trotting out his time as a POW--while nobody in the press ever makes mention of McCain's flip-flop to supporting torture.

Bullshit. The initiative is to get people appropriate local care for non-emergency illness instead of them having the ER as their only option *because* of lack of insurance. It's better for the patient, better for anybody in need of emergency care at that hospital and better for any state or federal programs assisting in funding their care. That is, access to a local doctor gives patients more ability to seek care *before* a condition becomes an emergency, or even preventative care to avoid it entirely--saving money which can be used to treat more patients.

Umm... how would he *know* they were gay unless we haven't heard all the details of his "torture"?

There was a British series called State Within, the gay Mi6 station chief was kinda annoying. The series was interesting in that it was set in the US embassy, and said some things politically that two years later are pretty clearly true. The view of America from that perspective was interesting. I wouldn't say the show was great, but useful for the contrast with thoughtless shit like 24. And Jason Isaacs stars. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770652/

Just lost a long message for the second fucking time because the page refreshed or something (for the f4f ad?) and focus changed from the input window to the browser in general, making backspace deadly...

I wouldn't worry too much about the graphics card, the problems have been known for a while now. It may already be done but check the manufacturer's website for a BIOS and graphics driver update. A lot of times the problem is solved by speeding up the fan with those updates. For $50-$100 you can get a USB TV tuner for your computer--especially great if you new computer came with Media Center (Vista Home Premium and Ultimate) which is a pretty damn good 'tivo' built into the OS. The better ones can now tune unscrambled digital cable: look for QAM compatibility. You may also be able to get over the air HD if you're in a city, even on a laptop screen that'd look 10X better for the Olympics than your old CRT...