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Lot of cobwebs around here! Guess this poor old blog is evidence of my often too short attention span...lol. But will try to do better! If you want to see how a blog should be done, check out my good friend (and fantastic author!), www.matthewpaulturner.com and his blog.

Finally saw "War of the Worlds" yesterday and seeing it the day after the horrible attacks in London put a different spin on it, at least to me. It was a good reminder that nothing Mr. Spielberg and his pals can whip up will stand up against the real thing. True horror in all it's unique, breathtaking and banal examples will trump multi-million dollar special effects each time. The only parts of the movie that really shook me were "people moments" between Tom's character and his kids, scenes that would have been at home in any genre of film....western, horror, adventure, etc., the sci-fi stuff was secondary.

And speaking of Tom Cruise, how scary is it that he is beginning to look more normal on-screen than off!?

One last random thought on the London events..... how weird and telling of our era is it that a good friend just outside of London didn't hear about the bombings until I called to check on him? He'd been outside all day painting and hadn't been near any newscasts. On 9/11 he'd heard about it before I did. Kind of amazing that our world has grown so small in some ways that news from down the street can be learned from people a continent away as easily as from the nextdoor neighbor.