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Poem – Almost Ripe
Movie ***** Evita (1996)
The unlikely sing duo of Madonna and Antionio Banderas do a fantastic Oscar-winning job with the Andrew Lloyd Weber songs.
Movie ***** Day of the Jackal (1973)
Superb find-the-assassin movie. Tony Britton, Inspector Label, must track down Edward Fox, a believable sociopath, paid to assassinate De Gaulle.
Movie ***+ Gifted (2017)
Fun “hidden genius” movie where Mckenna Grace plays a 7-year-old super mathematician, but slightly too super to be believable. Even Bobby Fisher didn’t beat Boris Spassky when he was seven.
Book – ****+ Knottspeed (2017)
Unconventional love story by Jeff Johnson beginning with oddball characters, Knottspeed and Fencepost, struggling with mobility issues in nearly homeless circumstances. Sticking until the Part II story line kicks in will reward you with a plot that comes together and the characters of Dr. Simon Resner and Tay Tay, both…
Spring runoff at the white River Falls in Eastern Oregon
If our planet can be this beautiful, how can the rest of the universe not be filled with amazing things?
Book – ****+ Amped (2014)
Terrific Daniel H. Wilson sci.fi. mutant story. Will the world destroy or embrace the next evolutionary step?
Poem – Physics
Book ****,***+ Doublesight and Memory Tower(2006-2007)
Terry Persun’s fantasy world where shape-changers are a common if misunderstood human variant, even between different clans of their own kind.