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Black Marks on Wood Pulp

a THING FULL OF THOUGHTS by COREY VILHAUER,
A GUY who likes WORDS and the WEB and PHOTOGRAPHY and HIS KIDS.

Category: General

The Peril of “Poor Judgment”

I have to get something off my chest: I am so tired of people blaming their deliberate bad acts on “poor judgement.”  Today, John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair.  In a statement, he said; In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to [...]

The festival life…

Summer festivals are a strange phenomenon. We always long for them, to bum around a field with a tepid can of lager in our mitts and sharing the experience with thousands of like minded people. You’re basking in the sun (this one is usually a dream rather than reality, but allow me some leeway on [...]

Inaccurate Vernacular: Top 10 Foreign Language Films

There are very few times I would rather watch a Hollywood film over an Independent or Foreign film.  Since some of our members and subscribers love to read I felt like this was the best list I could come up with to satisfy everyone at Oscar time.  Often times film from other countries challenge us [...]

Top 10 Movies of All Time

I decided to post my Top 10 movies before Oscar week as a way of showing support for the writer’s strike. Those donuts eating, latte drinking, weed smokers are all right. What’s that? You say writers don’t partake in illegal drugs. I can prove it: ALF, Hogans Heros, and Homeboys in Outerspace. Need I say [...]

Free Rice

“Is this a pop-up ad that bothered you today? It sure sounds like a scam by the name….” Those were my initial thoughts when I heard of a website which called itself Free Rice. Later, I found out that Free Rice is a website that can help the poor and enhance your vocabulary at the [...]

Music and your past…

It’s really funny how some good music can stay with you forever and almost become the soundtrack to a part of your life. It evokes certain feelings in you and the same thoughts just keep coming back every time you listen to it. A good tune, a good band has that effect on you and [...]