My Dad and I went to the Cinemark last night to see "The Hurt Locker". Hey, seniors get in for five dolla. And I did see some canes and walkers. Anyhow, "The Hurt Locker" is clearly the best movie of the year, thus far. I get that it's only August and movies like this tend to be forgotten come Oscar time, but Jeremy Renner in the lead role, Katheryn Bigelow as director and the movie itself should be up for consideration next year.

The main cast is primarily made up of unknowns. Renner played "Dahmer" years ago, and the others are faces you've seen before, but are not stars. We get supporting roles from Guy Pearce, Evangeline Lilly, David Morse and even Ralph Fiennes. The narrative is different from virtually every movie you've seen. It's a series of missions of a squad that has to diffuse bombs in Iraq. One of the few war movies that leaves politics aside for the most part. These are guys with a dangerous job to do and it shows they do it.

Lots of comparisons to Hitchcock because of the suspense factor. And there really is no let up. I think the movie stands out because it so different. Highly recommended.

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NPR has listed the fan voting of the best songs of 2009, thus far. This has a feel of baseball All-Star voting. Wow.

Does Kim-Jong Il know that Bill Clinton is not President anymore? Do they have TV? Radio? I mean, the world's greatest golfer caved awfully quick on this one.

Six months in, and we're still blue.

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Twitter wars! Yes, it's Stink vs. Ochocinco.

Now ESPN wants to regulate Tweets from its twats. I am still not on Twitter.

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