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Happy Towel Day! (Don’t Forget Your Towel!)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans rejoice — today, May 25, is Towel Day! See how the world is celebrating by visiting the Towel Day Flickr Group, or by checking YouTube. Is anyone else a huge Hitchhiker fan? I have loved the books since I was little, and I can honestly say that the 2005 movie adaptation is one of the few movies that is just as good as the book. Via BoingBoing. ...

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My Thoughts on “The Business of Being Born”

Yesterday I watched what many women claim the must-see movie for all expectant mothers: The Business of Being Born. My take on this documentary is that while it was informative and had some valid points, but it cast hospitals and OB-GYNs in a very harsh light. I fear that many women who watch this movie will be scared into not trusting their doctors (who are apparently only there to push drugs/procedures on you so they can get home before dinner). Many times throughout the movie I felt like I was being lectured into thinking drug-free is the only way to have a "natural" birth and the "best" way to birth. Although it was never directly stated, the feeling I got was that...

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“Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid.”

I love, LOVE scary movies. Even the cheesy, stereotypical fares dripping in red corn syrup. So when I finally got my hands on 2009's phenom Paranormal Activity, I immediately curled up on the couch with a bag of microwave popcorn and pressed "play" in anticipation of high horror. My verdict: 'Eh.' There were some scary parts — I'll give you that — but the movie itself wasn't that great, in my opinion. I really didn't find it that scary, and couldn't understand how so many of my friends declared it the scariest movie they had ever seen. Later, I was to find that the version I had watched was the original version, while the theatrical release version had a different ending. Nonetheless, the synopsis...

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