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Sinking ships

November 19, 2009

It took a leap of faith to go see “2012” on Friday the 13th. Watching the apocalypse is bad enough ... having an accident on the way home would be the icing on the cake. But I went anyway, a bit reluctant about watching director Roland Emmerich end the world ... again. What is it with this guy? He was probably the kind of kid who liked to break his toy trucks in the sandbox when he was growing up in West Germany before heading to Hollywood to make super hits like “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “Godzilla” and “10,000 B.C.” Although Emmerich is a high-profile supporter of causes, from the rights of women, gays and lesbians, to global warming, about every five years he gets this irresistible urge to destroy the world. His weapons of choice are tidal waves and natural disasters, but he usually finds room for a mushroom cloud or two.

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Old goats, new tricks

November 12, 2009

Being a skeptical kind of guy, I’ve never been inclined to delve deeply into astrology.

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Scary is scary

November 5, 2009

It’s normally a quiet place, but once a year — on Halloween — the street where I live becomes ground zero.

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Vienna Teng

October 29, 2009

Working as a Silicon Valley software designer, Vienna Teng sometimes imagined a more creative life beyond the confines of her computer cubicle.

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Where’s Amelia?

October 29, 2009

Some people think it’s eccentric that I use the road by the airport runway whenever I drive between town and my home Upcountry.

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Parents behaving badly

October 22, 2009

It was sheer coincidence that “Where the Wild Things Are” opened the same weekend the nation was up in the air with “balloon boy.

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