Ha! People are reading this!

Well, I've had a much better response than I ever expected (even with me emailing the link to a few people). I have opinions and ideas already being proposed.

To those who comment: I wouldn't mind reading your blogs to also jump start my brain and introduce me to other approaches to blogging. I can also put links on my blog, and I'd be happy to add your blog site to increase traffic and comments. Just let me know.

Topic Suggestions & Choice:

Upon heavy review (at least 60 seconds), I've decided to address suggestion #6 from Anonomous, "What is the best movie you've seen in the last year?"

This is tough and for that reason I am going to list two movies. First, I thought that "Must Love Dogs" was the best for entertainment this year. It was the first movie in a long time where I laughed that hard, got that involved with the characters, and truely forgot about the outside world for the length of the whole movie. Unfortunately, I saw it when it was first released and not since, therefore I don't have a lot of comments on it because it was so long ago. :)

The other best movie I saw this year was "Crash." This movie was extremely provacative and held nothing back. It is not for the faint of heart as it addresses race in a crude, no rules storyline. If you want a movie to get in your face and force you to consider the truth and reality of a story and the social issues, this is the movie to watch. It is not polite or PG13. The writer, director, producers, ect do not dance around the racial issues still around. There are people today in all regions, walks of life, and backrounds that are not blind to the color of skin. As sad and dissappointing as that may seem, we need to recognize this to change it. Pretending that racism is a part of history and no longer alive is just nurturing the problem. This film screams that. If you want to live in a world where there are not barriers, insults, assumptions made about an individuals race, heritage, religion, sexuality, ect, you need to accept the fact that those barriers and insults and assumptions are alive. Talk to people, teach children, ask questions to continue eliminating these preconceived ideas from our society today for tomorrow.

Well, that got me going. So, in conclusion I recommend "Must Love Dogs" and "Crash."