HobbyScope
Movies, Games, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Legends of the Wild West, those individuals who fueled the mystique of horse-riding gangs robbing banks and trains, or getting in shootouts with posses, make for great storytelling. Those on the wrong side of the law are viewed as masters of the outlaw lifestyle who only meet their end after betrayal or at the hands…
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Saturday Morning Cinema: The Silence of the Lambs
Watching this movie is like jumping into deep water. You may be a capable swimmer, confident in your abilities, but the watery blackness below hides many terrors. The first plunge into that unknown pushes you beyond your comfort zone.
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Word Tales: Xiphoid
Most famous for its use as an adjective in medical terminology with the “xiphoid process”, the word appropriate for common usage.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: In the Heat of the Night
There is cultural significance to a movie like this, because it holds up a mirror and lets us all know there is endless opportunity to be better.
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Word Tales: Urbane
Merriam-Webster defines urbane as “notably polite or polished in manner”. I’ve also seen the words “suave” and “sophisticated” used as defining benchmarks. That really makes “urbane” a life goal, doesn’t it?
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Word Tales: Prestidigitation
Here’s a fun word for you: prestidigitation. According to the vocabulary-building resource of Merriam-Webster, prestidigitation means “sleight of hand”, which conjures specific examples in the mind.
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Movies That Surprised – Kingsman: The Secret Service
There are times when you suspect a movie could be fun, but you start watching without expectation. Yet, at the end, you walk away having thoroughly enjoyed yourself for the previous two hours after going through an experience whose imagery resonates after the screen goes dark.
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Word Tales: Hogmanay
New Year’s Eve in the United States is a time revered for ending a year with bad decisions (usually too much drinking that leads to other poor choices) and then flipping over a page to start the new year with a clean slate. At the end of 2020, I was exposed to the word “Hogmanay”,…
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Mario Party is an A-hole (explicit)
Games are supposed to be fun, whether it is in card, board, or video format. They bring people together in providing a pleasant combination of escape and competition. Sometimes, however, a game will come along draped in the deceit of promising a good time while simultaneously preparing to bring forth great agony with the pain…
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Remember, Remember the Third of November
With the election today, this is very much a political post not intended to stir fervor and challenge opinions. It is intended simply as documentation of my condensed thoughts during a historical time.
