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The Making of a Backstage Sociologist
Originally given as an acceptance speech in 2004 when the Sociologists of Minnesota gave me the Distinguished Sociologist award.
As many of you in the audience know all too well, I am seldom at a loss for words. Thanks to a remarkable case of serendipity, today is one of those rare occasions. To be honored with the Distinguished Sociologist award is alone enough to leave one somewhat tongue-tied. Further compounding this sense of being dumbstruck is the eerie coincidence that this year's meeting of the Sociologists of Minnesota (SOM) is being held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Red Wing.
What few of you are privy to is this: I was once an inmate here, behind what Bob Dylan once called the "Walls of Red Wing." I last walked out of that front gate 41 years ago. The only word that seems to capture this turn of events is surreal.
Distinguished Sociologist . . . that title is both a tribute and fraught with ambiguity. The conferring of this award always leads some folks to question the appropriateness of the adjective: is this person's career truly distinguished? However, this may be the first time that the noun will generate as much controversy as the adjective. Who the hell died and made him a sociologist?
Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, everything in my curriculum vitae is true. Nevertheless, As Peter Berger puts it in Invitation to Sociology, "the first wisdom of sociology is this—things are not what they seem." To set the stage for my remarks, and to help make sense of this enigma, I will use one of Erving Goffman's most enduring insights.
In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman distinguishes front stage from backstage. Most of us want to present an idealized self in our front stage performances. The backstage is where our show is "painstakingly constructed; it is here that illusions and impressions are openly constructed." This backstage region is necessary because, according to Goffman, we must conceal from the audience certain "dirty work" that goes into creating the performance. These "vital secrets of the show" are what the audience would most likely find disconcerting or repugnant. An old adage neatly captured Goffman's point: "you don't want to know how sausage is made."
I am a sociologist. I inhaled my sociological moxie the old-fashioned way—as a deviant, a dissident, and an organizer. I will probably never receive the American Sociological Association's (ASA) seal of approval. In truth, I am a backstage sociologist. I would like to share with you, in the words of the Grateful Dead, "what a long, strange trip it's been." Come. Let me take you backstage. I want you to see the "dirty work" that went into the making of this sociologist.
A Mennonite Homeboy
In less than 100 years and three generations, my family evolved from pious tillers of the soil into urban nomads. An imposing Mennonite patriarch, my grandfather used simple means to protect our traditional culture. In short, he was not one to spare the rod and spoil the child. However, even the most austere of Protestant ethics was not enough to save his youngest son. Alcohol, the auto, and World War II were too much for my father—he eventually left the Mennonites behind.
My parents were tenants on an 80-acre farm and semi-skilled laborers in Jackson, a small southwestern Minnesota town. My beloved colleague, Nancy Black, is fond of suggesting that I was raised by wolves. While this metaphor does vividly capture my take-no-prisoners personality, it is hardly fair to my parents.
My mother and father made every effort to be good and dutiful parents. For these young, insecure newlyweds, the responsibilities of adulthood were challenge enough. Betty and Warren's first offspring only added an irrepressible wild card to the mix. My natural insurgencies elicited a repertoire of unpredictable responses, ranging from indulgence to an iron fist. Trust has never been my strong suit.
This Mennonite homeboy was born under a bad sign; by age 4, the elders had expelled me from summer Bible school for fighting. I was a precocious child; by age 12, my story had become the town's cautionary tale about juvenile delinquency. I was a case study of socialization gone array.
At the time, those psychic wounds were disfiguring, forever etched in my mind. Only later did I discover the tenderness of wolves. Today, I can treat those memories with the detachment of a stand-up comic. In those days, however, my survival kit was limited to rage, violence and crime.
In 1962, at age 17, the town fathers of Jackson, Minn., dispatched me to what was colloquially known as the Red Wing Boys' Reformatory. I had ambivalent feelings as I rolled across southern Minnesota, locked in the back seat of an unmarked squad car. On the one hand, I felt an existential despair that I only began to understand years later when I played the lead role in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." In Red Wing, I was always waiting, waiting for a deliverance that never arrived.
On the other hand, I felt a sense of anticipation and exhilaration. From one end of the state to the other, bad-boy wannabes (like little Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing) fantasized about making it to the big show. To understand that ambition, just listen to Dylan's "Walls of Red Wing."
I was in for a rude awakening. In those days, Red Wing was what Erving Goffman called a "total institution." Privacy was an idea you checked at the front gate. You ate together, you worked together, you slept together, you showered together and, without benefit of stalls, you defecated together.
Back then, few adolescents faced trial as adults. Consequently, you rubbed shoulders on a daily basis with juvenile felons who may have been burglars, sex offenders, armed robbers or even murderers. In any sort of gulag, there are predators and there is prey. I spent my stint at Red Wing avoiding becoming anyone's prey. When paroled, I had few remaining illusions. I just knew that I was not coming back.
But back I came. There were many "cottages" (the mother of all euphemisms) at Red Wing. Resembling medieval fortresses, those jagged stone buildings were gothic dungeons. The two that housed the most hardened boys and were the toughest places to do time were McKinley and Lincoln. This time, I drew Lincoln.
I decided to live by Faulkner's Nobel Prize motto — I would not merely endure: I would prevail. The highest status an inmate could achieve was to become a "belt" (in the old days, they literally wore belts across their chests and over their shoulders). Belts represented a combination of trustee and cottage enforcer. Two belts in each unit ran the show. Within a month, I had dispatched a cottage bully to the hospital infirmary. That made all the difference. I soon became the Lincoln belt.
Paroled once again after 10 months, I knew better than to return home. The good citizens of Jackson were just waiting to award me a scholarship to the "big house" at Stillwater state prison. That being a foregone conclusion, I packed up my 1949 Plymouth and headed for the Twin Cities.
From College Boy to LSD and Protest
I eventually found work in the basement of the Pillsbury Company. I spent my days mindlessly churning out office note pads and my nights drinking cheap liquor. The job's only real perk was that the glue they used to make the note pads got you higher than hell! I eventually met an attorney in the lunchroom who for some reason took an interest in me. One day, he said, "kid, you really aren't as stupid as you sometimes appear to be. Have you ever thought of going to college?"
That conversation made all the difference. I soon found myself at Austin Junior College. To be honest, even Red Wing's remedial courses had accomplished little. It only took a few class sessions to realize that I was in way over my head. During that first year, I had an intimate relationship with the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Most evenings, I sat with that dictionary draped across my lap, looking up every seventh or eighth word in my textbooks. However, I did make a remarkable discovery midway through my first year of college — cultural capital. From that day forth, I was like a burglar seeking the combination to a bank vault.
Resembling a body double, I sought to pass as an academic. I took to wearing button-down collar shirts, khaki pants, corduroy jackets, and cordovan loafers. Seeking to repudiate my hardscrabble background, I first parroted the preferences of junior college instructors and, later, research university professors. I even gave up Camel cigarettes in favor of a pipe.
Eventually, I pursued honors in both European humanities and American studies at the University of Minnesota. While I had vague ambitions for a doctorate, degrees seemed of little consequence in the late 1960s. I became a perpetual senior, acquiring over 140 semester credits while serving as a teaching assistant.
I took a hiatus from the university in 1967 and returned to Austin, Minnesota, as a reporter for the daily newspaper. Austin was the home of both Spam (Hawaii's favorite luncheon meat) and a sizable bloc of Nixon's "silent majority." I rented a large, old house and it soon became a commune for aspiring hippies and assorted members of the lumpenproletariat. Eventually, I discovered the hallucinogenic drug, LSD, and brought the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test to town.
Other than having vague anxieties about the draft, the Vietnam War was not yet on my radar screen. One day, I discovered a book lying around the house. In a single evening, I read Arthur Schlesinger's liberal critique of the war. That polemic was so persuasive that I embarked on a self-directed crash course about the war and the history of American interventionism. I was soon conducting a perpetual teach-in at the commune for anyone who happened to drop by.
In the fall of 1967, I organized a motley crew of local clergy, liberal housewives, high school and college teachers, ex-cons and assorted alienated youth, and we set about planning what was to be one of the first peace marches in Greater Minnesota (we went to great lengths to stress that we weren't anti-war). As you might imagine, the community did not take well to this disruption of Main Street on a tranquil Saturday afternoon. They lined the streets and pelted us with eggs and tomatoes.
First a commune, then LSD, and finally the peace march—the town's limited tolerance was finally exhausted. I soon received word of an impending bust. I left town just hours before a posse of local and state police converged on the house. Within days, I was in a Volkswagen bus, driven by a crazed methamphetamine freak, heading for Berkeley and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
A Flower Child's Trip to the Loony Bin
There is a picture in the Berkeley Barb newspaper that truly is worth a thousand words about my stay in the Bay Area. When the French Revolt of 1968 nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle, there was a huge solidarity celebration in Berkeley. The next week's Barb featured a circle of individual photographs, including revolutionaries like the Black Panther leader, Eldridge Cleaver. There was also a single anonymous hippie, lying on Telegraph Avenue, using the curb as a pillow.
Yes, you guessed it. I had just gotten a supply of authentic Owsley acid the day before. "Don't take more than half a blotter," warned the dealer; I took two and the trip lasted for 48 hours.
The 1967 Summer of Love was now long gone. The children of darkness, including the likes of Charles Manson, had rolled into town and were preying on the children of light. Like the 19th-century Transcendentalists, the hippie counterculture suffered from something akin to collective amnesia—we were persistently oblivious to the ubiquity of evil. Flower children, lacking the wisdom of the serpent, were no match for the legions of the damned. Murder, rape, armed robbery, and drug rip-offs had become commonplace. The predators got to me as well.
The director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic later told my friends that what I had taken to be a capsule of mescaline was actually horse tranquilizer, laced with strychnine. The clinical term for my condition was toxic psychosis; the street vernacular was acid flashback. This was not one of those quaint, momentary lapses from reality but rather a months-long descent into the subterranean regions of the mind, an untranslatable conversation with the demons of one's unconscious.
The next three years were a season in hell. I found myself intermittently incarcerated on the locked wards of San Francisco General Hospital, the University of Minnesota Psychiatric Unit, and the Rochester and Anoka State hospitals. This may come as a shock to some of you, but I was not always a model patient. Most of you have seen or read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Every asylum has a Nurse Ratchet or two. Well, her boys were regularly running me down, injecting me with anti-psychotic drugs and throwing me into locked padded cells.
Anoka State Hospital was my last hurrah. My psychiatrist was a very proper British expatriate. One day, I approached him near the nurse's station with questions about what I thought was my impending release. My long hair and hippie garb must have finally gotten to him. His reply was abrupt and hostile: "You will leave here when you have become socially normal. Go look at yourself in a mirror. You look like some sort of Zulu. I would as soon look like you as run around with my penis hanging out." While my wits were still somewhat scrambled, I was not witless. "Doctor," I retorted, "that might be good therapy for you."
I didn't need Erving Goffman or Bob Dylan to figure out which way the wind blows. The next day, my brother Tony helped me escape and we spent the summer roaming the interior of Canada in a Volkswagen bus (for my generation, that vehicle was the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria). It must have been what the Doctor ordered; I have somehow managed to stay out of those loony bins for the last 34 years.
An Accidental Anti-War Leader
During the Vietnam War era, The University of Minnesota's president, Malcolm Moos, often boasted that his leadership had kept the campus relatively peaceful. That was about to abruptly change in early May of 1972. President Richard Nixon had just escalated the war by mining North Vietnam's Haiphong Harbor. Within days, Minnesota unexpectedly became the epicenter of the nation's antiwar movement.
For me, those events were a simple twist of fate. I was just a nameless foot soldier when events began to unfold on the campus's West Bank early on May 9. There are instances in history when conventional scripts give way to improvisational theatre: Riots are such a moment. In hindsight, my entire life had been a rehearsal for the role I was about to play in this 48-hour drama.
By mid-afternoon, my sense of guerrilla tactics and a bullhorn-enhanced stage presence had catapulted me to the status of an impromptu field commander. By day's end, we had forced the armed evacuation of an unwelcome visitor (George Romney), Nixon's cabinet secretary for Housing and Urban Development, and had so disrupted the dedication of Cedar Square West, a much-hated federal urban renewal project, that we became the lead story on the national evening news shows.
The next morning a crowd of 2,000 protesters had gathered on the campus mall. As I stepped before the microphone to propose a strategy for the day's action, I caught a glimmer of my destiny. Saul Alinsky's first rule for radicals was to define both that day and my impending activist career—"the action is in the reaction."
I knew that hidden nearby was the police tactic squad. We wanted to provoke an assault. After trashing the armed forces recruiting office on the edge of campus, I led half the crowd off to storm the ROTC Armory. Dozens of riot police finally poured into the streets, wildly clubbing any available demonstrator. We had achieved our initial objective.
The day then became a sophisticated game of cat-and-mouse. As events unfolded, our ranks grew to over 5,000 protesters. We eventually gained the upper hand. By late afternoon, the authorities had called in all available law enforcement from the seven-county metropolitan area, and they began tear gassing protesters. Even with 250 officers, the mayor and chief of police could not regain control.
In a final act of desperation, they dropped tear gas canisters from a helicopter over a 10-block radius. We redeployed and managed a counterattack. Our hit-and-run tactics finally forced the governor to occupy the campus with the Minnesota National Guard, 800 troops armed with weapons.
After the military had restored order for a few days, detectives and federal agents hunted me down. I faced several charges. With wire-rimmed glasses, a huge curly 'fro and a gift for repartee, I became an instant media celebrity—the audacious radical. I had a new identity. My subversive propensities were no longer the negative characteristics associated with a deviant career; my rebellious nature had abruptly become a virtue, qualifying me for a redemptive calling.
President Moos later attributed the failure to pacify the campus to the fact that the protest lacked leadership. Wrong. He never understood the obvious: This was one of those turn of events when power, instead of flowing to those formal leaders recognized by the university, had cascaded into the streets, falling into the hands of a savvy troupe of improvisational leaders. Under pressure from the university's Board of Regents, President Moos submitted his resignation in 1973.
Zen and the Art of Organizing
By 1973, the Sixties had come to an abrupt end. The revolution had failed to materialize. Many activists, and more than a few hippies, decided to keep their options open by returning to school to either finish undergraduate degrees or enter graduate and professional programs. Not me, I kept the faith by apprenticing myself to the craft of grassroots organizing. To paraphrase Herman Melville, social movements and community organizations became my Harvard and Yale.
With radical politics in abeyance, I spent the next 17 years spreading seeds of fire, seeking to re-kindle the flames of activism. My guru in those days was Br'er Rabbit. I was an organizer and independent scholar for a variety of organizations that worked with the unemployed, low-income tenants, welfare recipients, union members, and students. I eventually served on the Governor's Poverty Commission and was the lead author of the study that shaped social policy in the state for a decade, A Poverty of Opportunity: Restoring the Minnesota Dream.
In the midst of those activist years, Tom O'Connell (an old comrade in arms) invited me to teach a class at Metropolitan State University. Founded in 1971, Metropolitan State was an experimental college for adult learners. Finding myself at a school known for thumbing its nose at the academic establishment, I devised a course that was befitting—"Interpersonal and Social Power: A View From Below." While this was a pleasurable avocation, I kept my day job.
The Jobs Now Coalition was little more than a paper organization when I became its director in 1982. The coalition soon became the state's most effective grassroots lobbying operation. With a budget that never exceeded $75,000, Jobs Now wielded significant power at the legislature and in public policy circles. During a five-year period that witnessed the worst recession in the past quarter century, we got the Minnesota Legislature to appropriate $165 million for the nation's most innovative jobs program and to raise the state's minimum wage 18 percent above the national rate.
Among other accomplishments, we managed to derail a Republican-controlled House of Representatives' attempt to cut payments for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) by 30 percent. The coalition's campaign to defend AFDC also played a significant role in the outcome of another event; in the next election, Republicans lost control of the House. By 1987, I had fulfilled my long quest for Zen and the art of organizing.
An Obituary and a Pipe Dream
Shortly thereafter, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published a profile of me that could only be called a bouquet. As time passed, I realized that everything in that article was what at age 22 I had hoped would one day be in my obituary. Symbolically, it was an obituary. Soon thereafter, I walked away from a highly visible and successful career. I naïvely decided (lacking a B.A. at the time) to become a college professor.
I went home one evening in 1989 and told my wife Bonnie about my latest pipe dream. There is one thing that most people who don't know her assume when they realize she has been married to me for nearly two decades—the woman has got to be a saint. She did not bat an eye at this new scheme. Being the hard-nosed owner of one of the nation's most respected public sector financial advisory firms, she calmly gave me a deadline of two years.
I spent those two years honing my craft, teaching 8-10 classes per year as an adjunct. I taught whenever and wherever possible, including repeat performances at every prison in the metropolitan area. In 1991, I got a B.A. and landed a non-tenured sociology position at Metropolitan State. During that first year, I received the Excellence in Teaching Award; and in 1992, the university honored me with the Outstanding Teacher Award. Unfortunately, I still had not arrived at a safe port. Storms clouds loomed on the horizon.
In the early 1990s, Metropolitan State was in the midst of a "hostile takeover." Legislators, corporate leaders, and state bureaucrats were demanding that the institution jettison its utopian mission. They fired the president and brought in an interim to clean house. In early 1993, he terminated the contracts of 16 faculty members with non-tenure track appointments. Seeking to upgrade faculty credentials, he initiated national searches for 12 tenure track slots. Backstage sociologists need not apply.
On a cold and snowy March evening, a group of my past and present students held a mass meeting with the acting president. They had moxie enough to bring along reporters. The students were direct and disarming. An article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted Melanie Hardie: "I do believe in credentials and the necessity of being a credible university. . . but not at the expense of my education." The president conceded; he would require only a master's degree for the sociology position and agreed to delay the appointment for nine months.
I foolishly took him at his word. His promise did not stop him from recruiting another candidate for the position, giving that person the impression that the fix was in. In spite of that, the search committee made me its first choice. The college dean and academic vice president concurred, checkmating the interim president.
The adage about sausage might also apply to the making of my M.A. With less than 48 hours to spare, I defended my thesis at a very public and well-attended session. Exacting the only remaining revenge available to him, the interim president appointed me to a tenure-track position at the lowly rank of instructor.
In the fall of 1993, the university hired a new president. She took one look at the recent hires and put everyone without doctorates on notice that they were in trouble. Ever the enfant terrible, I was not about to spend my middle ages genuflecting before some dissertation committee. Instead, I decided to conjure up the "illusions and impressions" necessary for an award-winning front stage performance.
The Stranger in Your Midst
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck . . . I figured I had better quickly find myself a flock of sociologists. That search led me to the annual meeting of the Sociologists of Minnesota. I arrived late that evening and, let me tell you, the last 15 minutes of an SOM cocktail hour is not a pretty sight.
I knew not a soul. Many of you remember Dorothy Warrick. She marched over, tilted her head up at an angle, gave me a perplexed stare and, as only Dorothy could do, said in a tone that was as much an accusation as it was a statement of fact: "You're the guy in the newspaper article." Since that night, I have been Simmel's "The Stranger" in your midst:
"The stranger will thus not be considered here in the usual sense of the term, as the wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow but rather as the man who comes today and stays tomorrow . . . He is fixed . . . within a group . . . but his position within it is fundamentally affected by the fact that he does not belong to it initially and he brings qualities into it that are not, and cannot be, indigenous to it."
I was a stranger to sociology, but you made me one of your own. You never asked for papers to affirm my pedigree; nor did you worry about my academic lineage. You accepted me at face value and judged me only by my ongoing contributions to the discipline and profession. I owe a debt of gratitude to so many in SOM, but I want to single out two members of the flock whose presidencies served as bookends to my own. Tom Schmid and Steve Buechler not only became colleagues and friends but also took me under their wings, buffed off some of my rough edges, and polished my raw talents.
I would like to believe that part of the reason you have honored me today is because I brought a gift that was not indigenous to this group—I was able to put old wine in new bottles. Members of SOM commonly practice sociology in a manner that the powers-that-be and the sociological elite neither understand nor respect. To a degree, you had internalized this disrespect.
As a stranger, I saw something quite different. You believe that students should always be an end in themselves. They are, in the words of Michael Burawoy, "our first public" and our first responsibility. And the audience for your scholarship is seldom those influential experts who read prestigious journals. Rather, you seek to communicate your findings to well-informed citizens and practitioners in the field. Service in this organization is rarely self-aggrandizing and career enhancing. Instead, your service is a contribution to the common good, a practice that speaks to our better nature.
If I have made a contribution that you consider distinguished, it is because this backstage sociologist has become a reflection of your practices. I have been consistently articulating your message around the nation: SOM is restoring the discipline to its century-old roots; sociologists in Minnesota are leading an insurgency for a more authentic and a more populist sociology.


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Ubisoft files suit against the Black Eyed Peas for breach of contract
Music games have generated yet another lawsuit, but just for a change, this time it's the publisher suing the artist.
According to court documents dug up by PlayerAttack, Ubisoft is suing BEP Music LLC for failing to respond to requests for approval of an iOS game, as required by a licensing agreement between the two companies. Ubisoft has apparently been chasing the company since March.
The iOS game and license in question are not named in the documents, but as Player Attack notes, BEP Music LLC owns just one trademark – the Black Eyed Peas – and the release information of an existing game produced under the licensing agreement matches that of 2011's The Black Eyes Peas Experience.
Ubisoft claims to have spent €181,000 developing the iOS game so far; in its FY2012 report, the publisher expected to release "The Black Eyed Peas Experience for iPad and iPhone" by June 2012.
This latest music games blarney comes in good company; Axl Rose, Courtney Love and No Doubt both filed suit against Activision over the Guitar Hero franchise.
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Wednesday, 24 Jul 2013 08:24 AM
Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management LLC sweetened their proposal to buy Dell Inc., boosting their offer to $13.75 a share in an effort to clinch shareholder support.
The group delayed a vote on the leveraged buyout to Aug. 2 at 9 a.m. local time at the personal-computer maker's headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, according to a statement today. The parties called the offer, an increase from their previous $13.65-a-share bid, their "best and final proposal."
If approved by shareholders, the new bid would end a six-month fight between Chief Executive Officer Dell and billionaire Carl Icahn, who has tried to derail the deal by proposing the company repurchase most of the outstanding shares at $14 apiece and offer some warrants. By taking the company he founded in 1984 private, Dell is seeking to transform it into a bigger provider of hardware, software and services for corporate-data centers, after years of ebbing sales and profit.
Dell's initial offer, which had the support of the company's board, won backing from Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. earlier this month. A majority of investors, excluding Dell's 15.6 percent stake in the computer maker, will have to approve for the deal to pass.
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About Blue Sky Villas at Fairway Villas
Fairway Villas has been a part of North Padre Island for over 30 years. North Padre Island is becoming more and more popular every day. We used to think we had the perfect location for our condo complex, but now we know it's the perfect location!
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"Quick writing and a heroine women will love make Full Blooded a delight to read." (Vampire Book Club)
"Full Blooded's lore is unique and bewitching, the characters are dynamic and the wolves are howling-ly formidable. The action is unrelenting and the world building is so fluid that you don't even realize its happening. Every page is better than the last and the ending pretty much guarantees that you'll be reading Hot Blooded." (Rabid Reads)
"A wild, wolfy ride that will have you howling for more!"―Kristen Painter, author of Blood Rights
"Amanda Carlson's Full Blooded is full of all good things: danger, excitement, an original, LIKEABLE heroine and some great mythological mayhem. Bring on book 2!"―New York Times and USA Today bestseller Karen Chance
"Amanda Carlson's debut novel is a fast paced tale with a cliffhanger ending that left me panting for more. Full Blooded left me on the edge of my seat from cover to cover."―New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter
"A fresh approach to the werewolf tale."―Library Journal on Full Blooded
About the Author
Her book, Full Blooded, a face-paced, action filled urban fantasy, the first in the Jessica McClain series, will be released by Hachette Book Group by both ORBIT US & UK SEPT 2012. Full Blooded is her first fiction novel. She lives in Minneapolis, with her husband and three kids.
You can find her on various social media sites. Stop by for a visit! All links and information can be found at amandacarlson.com.


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Hanky Panky Cake
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 45 mins
I found this recipe in another website. I haven't tried it yet, but am posting it for future reference. It does sound yummy.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 18 ounces yellow cake mix
- 3 eggs (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1⁄3 cup oil (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1 1⁄3 cups water (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 (6 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 3 bananas, sliced
- 1 (12 ounce) box Cool Whip
- 1⁄2 cup chopped nuts
- Bake cake according to box directions and poke holes in it.
- Boil together the crushed pineapple can contents and the sugar,and pour over cake while hot. Let cool.
- Prepare vanilla pudding according to its box's directions and mix with the coconut and spread over cake.
- Spread Cool Whip over this.
- Place the sliced bananas on top of cake spread and top with the nuts.
Most Helpful
I've gotta try this one! Especially since my husband's name is Hank! tee-hee!
This was excellent!! The only change I made was the pudding - I used banana cream instead of vanilla. It turned out great and was enjoyed by everyone there.
I make this all the time. It's delicious. The only difference is I toast the nuts and the coconut and I sprinkle them on top of the whipped cream on top of the cake.


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Man Offers Perfectly Reasonable Explanation for Smoking Pot at Work
Is fired anyway.
"I had to fire an employee who chose to smoke pot under a closed circuit camera at client site garage. I asked, during the firing process, 'Why smoke pot at work in front of camera?' His answer was that he had taken the bus to work that day and couldn't smoke in his car on the way to work. 'Yes, of course,' I said, 'but the whole camera thing?' He response was that he was in kind of a hurry." [Business Insider]


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September 2 - October 31, 2016
Mickey's Boo-to-You Halloween Parade, the Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular, and Happy HalloWishes fireworks will all be returning for 2016.
There are also new costume guidelines this year: "While costumed attire may be worn, guests ages 14 and older are strongly discouraged from wearing layered costumes or costume props that surround the entire body as they may be subject to additional security screening. Additionally, costumes may not contain any weapons that resemble or could easily be mistaken for an actual weapon."
Halloween Events around Disney World:
Dates / Times:
September 2, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 29, 30, 2016
October 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 2016
Hours: 7:00 pm – midnight, Parade at 8:15 pm and 10:30 pm, Fireworks at 9:30 pm
Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party Links:
All ticket holders for this event will be required to wear a wrist band.
General Pricing
September 2016
September 2, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 25
Adult: $79 + tax, Child: $74 + tax
September 23
September 29, 30
Adult: $88 + tax, Child: $83 + tax
October 2016
October 2, 6
Adult: $86 + tax, Child: $81 + tax
Adult: $95 + tax, Child: $90 + tax
October 4, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27
Adult: $91 + tax, Child: $86 + tax
October 7, 14, 21, 28, 30
Adult: $95 + tax, Child: $90 + tax
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September 2, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18, 23, 25, 29, 30
October 2, 6
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September 2, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18, 23, 25, 29, 30
October 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20
Tickets can be ordered by calling 407-W-DISNEY or through your Dreams Unlimited Travel Specialist as part of your package/room reservation
Guests are given Trick or Treat Bags to be used at the candy stations found throughout the Magic Kingdom. Locations are indicated on the map. Some cast members will give more than others, but there's no limit to how many times you can go back to the same location for more.
Trick or Treat Stations
Options for guests with food allergies are available upon request at City Hall on Main Street, U.S.A.
" Mickey's Boo-to-You Halloween Parade "
Come see your favorite characters dressed up in their Halloween costumes! The floats feature Disney Villains as well as your beloved Disney friends. The parade begins with an entrance from the Headless Horseman! The Haunted Mansion float is incredible. This parade is a must see!
Times: 8:35 pm and 11:15 pm (begins in Frontierland).
Tip: The second parade is often much less crowded.
Happy HalloWishes Fireworks - 10:00pm
This party in the sky is one of the best fireworks shows that Disney offers throughout the year. The Haunted Mansion's Ghost Host welcomes guests to the show where the Disney Villains fill the sky with fireworks and remixes of their theme songs. It's definitely a do-not-miss attraction!
Premium Dessert Package
This package will include a reserved viewing location on Main Street, U.S.A. for the Mickey's "Boo-To-You" Halloween Parade, followed by desserts at the Tomorrowland Terrace and viewing for the Happy HalloWishes Nighttime Spectacular. Desserts will include items like chocolate-dipped strawberries, chocolate mousse, ice cream, cheeses, and fruits. Beverages will include sparkling cider, hot chocolate, Signature Lemonades, specialty Halloween Specialties, coffee and tea.
Price is $69 per adult and $39 per child (ages 3-9), tax included. Make reservations by calling 407-WDW-DINE or online here. Admission to Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is required and not included in the package price. Check in is anytime from 4:00-7:00pm; guests will meet at the parade viewing area in Town Square at 7:30pm.
Celebrate the Magic - Halloween edition!
Times: 9:45
Disney Villains take center stage in the Halloween edition of this nighttime projection show on Cinderella Castle. Guests will see Ursula lording over the poor unfortunate souls trapped in her underwater lair, Chernabog spreading his wings over the face of Cinderella Castle and Malificent casting a forest of thorns over the base of the castle, then transforming into a fire-breathing dragon.
Dance the night away with your favorite Disney characters!
There are two locations for these parties:
Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular
The Sanderson Sisters (Winifred, Mary and Sarah) from Disney's film Hocus Pocus, return to the mortal world each Halloween season for 1 night. The sisters take over the Magic Kingdom to throw the "best, evil Halloween party this side of the graveyard." The Disney villains help create the Hocus Pocus Party Potion to cast a spell on all the partygoers. Dr. Facilier, Oogie Boogie, Maleficent and other villains will be in attendance. The show will also feature dancers, projections and other special effects. A show schedule has not yet been released.
Times: 8:00pm, 9:20pm, 10:40pm, 12:00am
There will be several new meet and greet locations in Storybook Circus this year!
Characters are in their Halloween costumes, so be sure to wear yours!*
Meet characters all around the park, up until 11:30 pm. You'll even have a special opportunity to meet ALL seven dwarfs in Fantasyland!
*Guests, especially children, are invited to wear costumes. However, guests are asked to choose costumes that are not obstructive to the child's view or that may be offensive to other park guests.
Party-exclusive Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom card
"Minnie Mouse's Costume Chaos" card will be available exclusively at Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. Guests must show their party ticket and event wristband to receive their card. Regular card packs will also be available to pick up during the event.
Attractions, Dining and Merchandise Information
Rides and attractions - Most attractions are open. Open rides are indicated on the map.
Counter Service Dining Locations Open During Party:
Specialty Treats available:
Event Merchandise is available at:
Please note that all times, prices and events included are subject to change.
PhotoPass Magic Shots
Even the PhotoPass photographers have a ghoulish surprise for partygoers! Guests can have two "Magical Shots" taken of themselves with the Hitchhiking Ghosts! Only available during Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, the PhotoPass photographers will pose you in front of The Haunted Mansion, in Liberty Square or on the Adventureland bridge. When you view your photos, the Hitchhiking Ghosts will appear!
Guests can also find a Magic Shot in Fantasyland that will show them holding a poison apple over a boiling cauldron.
Throughout October, there will be seasonal decorations and entertainment around Disney Springs, as well as fall menu items in select restaurants.
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"Oh Toulouse!" Toulouse by Jonathan_C
Toulouse Travel Guide: 616 reviews and 1,339 photos
I had a feeling I would like this town before I came here for a four day work trip. The beautiful location, the universities, the modern industries of aviation and biotechnology and a substantial web presence make Toulouse a perfect sister, or perhaps cousin, of Seattle. As capital of the Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse combines the best of urban and rural France with several universities and an amazing assortment of cultural events mixed together with rural southern hospitality and incredible food.
The center city has not ben ravaged by war and retains the charm of medievally narrow streets that are constantly busy with tourists and students and those who call Toulouse home. Except for a few major arteries, pedestrians and bicyclists rule the center city where travel by car is discouraged. Life here is lived outside all day and all night with markets, restaurants, cafes and nightspots providing gathering places at every intersection with a named 'place'. Place du Capitole, place Wilson, place St. George, place St. Sernin, place Puits Clos, place St. Etienne, ... Each is its own mini neighborhood with its own unique atmosphere. There is enough variety in the center city alone to fill many days of exploring.
But don't forget to go exploring outside the city limits as well. The countryside surrounding Toulouse is gorgeous and it is quite easy to rent a bike and get out of town in just a couple of hours. Bicycles are extremely common in the city and motorists are very accepting of them. The slow pace of traffic in the city greatly reduces the danger of riding in traffic. And the path along the Canal du Midi provides an excellent route out of town. In my travelogue you can follow my own day ride south of Toulouse to explore the rolling countryside and quaint hamlets of the Lauragais.
There is so much to see and experience in Toulouse that you can't possibly do it justice in a stay of less than a week. My plan is to arrange to work there for a couple of weeks every year. I really don't expect two weeks to be long enough either, though. It may only make me realize how much more there is to see that I don't even have an inkling of right now.
Oh Toulouse, pretty in pink, your wit and charm and good home cooking have completely seduced me!
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Looks like a great place!
Actually, before planning my trip to Toulouse, I read your good tips. As you I was impressed by Thomas d'Aquin and the discreet tomb for such a personality. Seems to me that the fight between the "ratio" and the irrational thinking is still going on.
You must be in the airline industry. Isn't Toulouse the headquarters for Airbus? Nice writing as always...
Hi, I also visited Toulouse and found it to be very nice, I was only travelling through and all I remember is the carnival that was on that night! It was great! Great pages and photos all round.
Toulouse is much better than I thouhgt so another place to add to my must visit list. Very good and personal page.
Thank you for visiting my very incomplete Toulouse pages - I am delighted to have dicovered your wonderful descriptions and pictures: it really is a fabulous city
Great page. The best way to see a place and sample the local food is definitely by staying with a local.
The inverse traveler observation was perfection, Jon. Your appreciation for Toulousse was vibrant and well communicated. I'd never really seen photos of this city - loved your impression of French treatment of churches/cathedrals. You are so perceptive.
What's not to like! Well done.
Greetings from a Parisian born on the Lauragais. Your page is fantastic.Have a nice day.
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Saving Aimee: Kathie Lee Gifford's Musical on Famous Evangelist
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This show is the real deal. A work in development? Maybe there needs to be some careful tuning of the second act to make the story line clearer ( I wonder if those who do not know the story of Aimee S.M. might be a bit confused) and shave off 15 minutes... at the same time I wonder if 15 minutes could be added to exemplify her legacy. This is a ready for prime time show. It has the historical heft and emotional cored of a show like Evita. Bravo! This show is accessible to all who enjoy strong musical theater. 5th Avenue has talk backs and pre-show talks available at select shows. Do try and go see one. I happened upon one by accident and found it added another depth to the show experience.
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Amazing performances, especially Carolee. I was captivated thoughout the whole performance. Stellar evening of entertainment! And great seats!!
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Loved this play and everything about it such as the staging, music, acting, and story. Can't remember when I have enjoyed a play more.
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Saving Aimee is a musical with a book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman.
Based on early 20th century evangelist and pop culture icon Aimee Semple McPherson, it traces the trajectory of her life and career from her childhood to her controversial death in 1944, with focus on her mysterious kidnapping and the ensuing trial. Other highlights include her becoming the first female to obtain a radio broadcast license in the United States, her cross-country drive unaccompanied by a man, her multimedia empire that included several newspapers and her interactions with such contemporaries as Charles Chaplin and William Randolph Hearst.
Carolee Carmello (Aimee) has appeared in ten Broadway shows: City of Angels, Falsettos, Parade (for which she received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award), 1776, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Kiss Me Kate, Urinetown, Lestat (Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination), Mamma Mia!, and most recently, The Addams Family (Drama Desk nomination and Outer Critics Circle nomination). Her Off-Broadway credits include: John and Jen, Das Barbecü, Hello Again (Obie Award), A Class Act, The Vagina Monologues and Elegies. Carmello has also appeared on television in _Law and Order, Frasier, Ed _and Remember W.E.N.N. (SAG Award nomination) and has toured the U.S. with productions of Chess, Big River, Falsettos and Les Misérables. Her concert appearances have taken her across America and Europe, including several engagements at Carnegie Hall.
- Kathie Lee Gifford (Writer/Composer) has enjoyed a diverse and successful four-decade career as a television host, actress, singer, playwright, songwriter and author. Though best known for her 15 years on Regis and Kathie Lee (11 Emmy nominations), and currently acting as the two-time Emmy-winning co-host of the fourth hour of the Today Show with Hoda Kotb, Gifford has always pursued projects which inspire and challenge her. Gifford made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's _Putting it Together _in 2000, then originated the role of Marta Dunhill in Rupert Holmes' Thumbs and played Miss Hannigan in a record-breaking run of Annie at Madison Square Garden. In 2005, her first musical Under The Bridge (book and lyrics) opened off-Broadway.


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Hotel Oxford Mamaia Hotel
B-dul A. Lapusneanu nr. 202 A, Constanta, Constanta, Romania
Atmosphere 93%
Cleanliness 93%
Facilities 93%
Location 87%
Safety 93%
Staff 93%
Value 87%
What's Included
- Breakfast
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- Luggage Room
- Towel
- Air conditioning
- Free Breakfast
- Lockers
- 24 Hour Reception
- Bar
- Elevator
- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
- Parking
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Earliest check-in: 00:00
Latest Check-out: 12:00
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About Hotel Oxford Mamaia
The elegant and striking façade gives way to a host of pretty public and private spaces. Unwind with a refreshing drink in the stylish bar, sample a fusion of local and international cuisine in the restaurant and take advantage of the excellent and stylish meeting facilities. Venture to the nearby beach and relax in the captivating surroundings.
Lap up the luxury of the bright, airy rooms which utilize warm apricot tones to successfully promote a welcoming ambience. Benefit from the array of facilities on offer and enjoy your break in stylish comfort. Come and stay at Hotel Oxford.
Location Information
Mamaia is the largets resort on the Romanian Black Sea shore. It is situated immediately northeast of Constanta, Romania.
Mamaia is 8 km in length and only 300 meters in width, being a strip of land between the Black Sea and Lake Siutghiol.
The beach season is at its best between mid May and late September, when average daytime temperatures of 25 to 30 degrees Celsius (78 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit). The water is warm until late autumn.
The beach is a 5 minutes stroll from the hotel.
Cancellation Policy
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27 Oct 2008 5:33 AM #1
Hi, i am very new at Ext Gwt.
can someone give me an example how an model class must be designed for an editable grid please
in the example it is the stock and testdata class, how does such a class looks like ???
- import com.extjs.gxt.samples.resources.client.model.Stock;
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- ListStore<Stock> store = new ListStore<Stock>(); </SPAN>
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Critical Rating: AAAA
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Don't be fooled by the A-list actors. I think Cuba Gooding Jr and Val
Kilmer must have been tricked into working on this crap. It even looks
like the director tried to hide his name on the credits.
Hardwired was derivative in way that makes you think the writer has heard about Blade Runner and Minority Report, but never seen either. It's unoriginal with a non-existent plot, and cheesy effects from the very start. Truly painful to watch. The effects include exploding heads with "Evil-Dead-like" blood spurting, and After Effects starbursts for bullet strikes plus annoying high-pitched ringing throughout the film. The computer "hacking" was not only boring but laughable. (My life's work of "hacking" stored on a USB stick:) Even the 2 cyber punks were unconvincing. It takes place in the future yet everyone drives cars from the 90s. The set design was total crap, and it looks like it was shot on a camcorder in 1992. I kept thinking I was watching a low budget sci-fi TV show from the early 90s on a second rate network. I can't believe I watched this movie. There's no redeeming qualities to mention. It was simply terrible, and not in a cute B movie fashion.
Okay, yes. You've seen the material a thousand times from Freejack to
Johnny Mneumonic to Total Recall to Matrix. This echoes both John
Carpenter's, "They Live," and the more-recent "Gamer," with some of the
feel of the original "Blade," attempted, but never achieved.
The action is awesome, well choreographed, and professionally executed throughout a Terminator-stylized storyline including the end of the world as we know it via robotics and a mad scientist portrayed disappointingly by Val Kilmer.
Mad scientists should be either raving mad, or insidiously fiendish. Kilmer's Virgil was full of high ideas with no moral center, but he utterly lacked the diabolism required to carry through such a plan. It was like he knew from the beginning that he was doomed to fail, and played the character thusly, failing to invest too much of himself in a doomed role. I wanted him to be Madmartigan vs. the kid from Real Genius, and instead, I got Craig Ferguson's Dr. Wagner of Lenny the Wonder Dog. To say the least, I was disappointed.
Decent on a rainy afternoon if there's nothing left in the house to clean. Otherwise, you could find something better to do with your time.
It rates a 5.5/10 from...
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Kilmer and Ironside clearly had no interest in doing a TV series, but Gooding apparently did. And for TV, not so terribly bad. The concept just about carries it. As for the comments about clutzy props, TV show decider-suits love the idea that the thing won't cost them a bunch, yank some crap out of the warehouse and fake the rest.
I liked it for what it was. And for the ludicrous notion that higher powers would want to put chips into us. Wherever did they get that from?
Of course, this puppy won't see the light of day.
It's really sad to see talent like Cuba Gooding Jr and Val Kilmer doing
a movie like this. I bet when these guys first agreed to do this film,
it was sold to them as the next "5th Element". Too bad it's just not
going to help either of their careers. This movie is extremely low
budget, and laughable at many times. From the very first scene, the low
budget effects become apparent.
I give more credit to fan made films such as those made for Lord of the Rings and Metal Gear Solid, they were better quality and made by amateurs. This movie had no excuse. Poorly written, poorly filmed, and last but certainly not least - what's up with Val Kilmer's wig?
I just finished watching this movie. If you like sci-fi, you might enjoy this if you have nothing else to watch. The story line is OK, it could happen I suppose. The plot has been done so many times though. The acting is not there, even though it has some decent actors in it. Seems Cuba didn't even want to play the role, shows really no passion in the movie. The action failed real bad. After around 15 minutes or so, it turns video-gamish. The ending is left for a sequel in-which I have no clue as to why. Also, why did I give it a 5? It has it's moments & could have been a decent movie. If your a die-hard sci-fi fan, you might just like it. I try to be fair when judging all movies, because what I don't like others will & vice-versa.
a very poor imitation of matrix and/or total recall or similar SiFi
movies. though the Plot is not that bad , it is dragging too far,
action is OK, acting in Cuba Gooding part and Ironside is good,Val
Kilmer looks goofy though, other actors not very promising.
The sound track of the movie is annoying and out of place, it is like an Arabic belly dancing music imported right out from Cairo. by far the worst part of the movie is its sound track. at the end the score is kind of Indian drum combo with an Indian singer crying along very sadly.
all together it is a 'watchable movie.
... this movie is soooo bad. I could tell you why, but it does not worth the words. Just spare your time and avoid it. It't lame and tells nothing new. :( Kilmer's character's hair is so funny that I was laughing for three minutes when he appeared in the movie... Actually all the characters are funny, as if they were a parody of themselves. I don't know if they were so bored to play such boring roles, or the script was too lame, or the director was sleeping in a corner during all the shooting, but this acting, and this entire movie is actually a shame for anyone who was involved in the making. Believe me, If you watch it, you will regret it in the end.
I just watched this great movie, and really cannot understand the 4.7 rating. Please do not take any of the bad reviews serious. The people who wrote these reviews probably have a problem swallowing good quality food also, because they are used to junk food. This original and exciting sci-fi action-thriller should at least have a rating of 7, so i gave it a 10. The movie portrays a scary future, where dark forces take partial control of human beings minds by means of chip implants. A future, that actually might not be that far away from us. Apart from being very entertaining and full of suspense, keeping my attention all of the time, this movie has an important message to all of us. It shows the horrible reality of a world where evil people that are driven by greed, take control of our minds. The theme is nicely worked out. The acting might not be top-notch, but overall, it is good enough. Cuba Gooding Jr. performs alright, but Val Kilmer is rather disappointing and unconvincing. Luckily, his role is very limited. The camera work, and visual effects are nice and the script is OK. Certainly a movie not to miss!
The best review I can give for this movie is "mildly entertaining".
Even at that, most of the entertainment comes from the embarrassing
special effects and flaws that continuously crop up throughout the
When I watched this movie, I thought it was made in the early 90's. To think it was produced in 2009 is nearly unbelievable- I think I've seen Youtube videos more impressive. Bullet impacts were star bursts; in one scene a van is hit with bullets multiple times without a single bullet hole.
At several times story flaws were so bad I felt an urge to punch a gaping hole in my TV. In a shooting scene, the main character "Luke" is in an industrial room with SWAT-like enemies closing in. One of them had his gun aimed right at his head when the lights cut out. For some reason, this means that he was incapable of shooting, and literally walked in the opposite direction to find Luke. Mind you, he was previously standing DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM.
The pain doesn't stop there as Luke pretends to occasionally randomly feel out in front of him as if he can't see. Even though the main lights were cut, the room was still clearly lit. This wasn't the only moment I had to wonder whether the director expected me to assume that, despite what the movie shows, the scenes are much different than what they appear. I'm no fancy Hollywood director but I don't think it's that difficult to make a room dark. In fact I can do it at any moment with an amazing invention called "actually turning the lights off".
If you are considering watching this movie, you can feel what it's like right now: Simply ball your hand into a fist then punch yourself in the face repeatedly.
I like scifi movies and have a soft spot for near-future stuff that
isn't way out there but actually still relates to, and builds on, our
contemporary "world". That is the strength of this movie - it is a
computergame-influenced action set in a near-future world where
corporations are powerful and personal integrity is - well - expendable
in exchange for increased profit... The weakness of this movie is the
computergame-storyline which is rather "straightforward" (and a bit
predictable). Occasionally this movie feels like a
computergame-trailer, or a movie launched to promote that game.
Somewhat stiff acting from both Val Kilmer and Cuba Gooding Jr - they
both seem a bit at unease in this movie somehow - is another drawback,
but that's only considering what they can perform when more inspired I
suppose. Overall the acting in the movie is quite good.
All and all this was a pretty good action/scifi movie! The scifi in this movie is credible, and as in any good scifi-movie the "world" and the issues/ideas/new technology/whatever are the things driving the story forward. Add good acting, a nice budget and well shot movie and you got yourself 1½ hours of good entertainment.
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