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30 days

some of you here might be interested in this

 

a young man spent 30 days living in downtown east side of Vancouver, BC, among the horrific conditions...

 

Here is his documentary

 

just go to youtube and look up Streets of Plenty...you'll get a list starting with "Streets of Plenty - 1 of 7 - Vancouver Homeless Doc"

 

this is one of the brilliant strengths of the internet...

 

 

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The Hunger Games

Around my house critisizing this movie is absolutely taboo. But I went to see it last night with my partner and 2 teen daughters and was really appalled. I am currently in a Lenton study group called 12 steps to compassion so maybe I am more sensitive than normal, but it really made me uncomfortable to watch as entertainment a movie where young people were selected to kill each other and then went ahead in a perversion of our reality TV shows, to in fact kill each other. It felt akin to snuff movies. Though we all knew that no teenagers had actually been killed in the making do this movie

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The King's Speech

I went to see The King's Speech last night.

 

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

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WWJD

Oh my my my.

Last night I saw an ad for the new "Saw" movie (horror slasher type series of flicks) and they actually opened the ad with

WWJD

And then asked, "What would Jigsaw do?"

Jigsaw being the psychotic killer, of course.  Now I'm used to WWJD referring to Jesus, but usually I don't see the acronym "out there" in the wider culture.

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Passchandaele -- are you going to see it, have you seen it?

Last night, my oldest son & I went to see Passchandaele. 

 

I recommend it, though I will warn re sex, violence & language...the typical things.

I find it funny, we warn about  sex regardless of the type of sex, even though it is the most natural of our actions as humans, and something we hope our grown children find in a solid relationship

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