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I live in Dundee, Oregon with my wife and two daughters. My interests include computer games, digital imaging, software, cooking and reading (mostly science fiction). My favorite authors are Nevil Shute, Patrick O'Brien and Gene Wolfe. If you want a box of sh*t in your house, get a cat. Having attended both, I can testify that college is not so useful, nor vocational school so easy, as most pe… Read moreI live in Dundee, Oregon with my wife and two daughters. My interests include computer games, digital imaging, software, cooking and reading (mostly science fiction). My favorite authors are Nevil Shute, Patrick O'Brien and Gene Wolfe. If you want a box of sh*t in your house, get a cat. Having attended both, I can testify that college is not so useful, nor vocational school so easy, as most people think. If you've read this far I might as well go ahead and tell you some very secret and personal stuff. Nothing is so anonymous as a wide-open place where people notice nothing: Ref. see. 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allen Poe. Okay, ready? Here we go. When I was 14, I ha
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![Lonesome Dove [Import] <b>DVD</b> ~ Robert Duvall](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/611HJDT64WL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
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According to Amazon.com's "technical details" link for this item, the total run time is 240 minutes. According to IMDB, the miniseries first broadcast in 1989 runs 384 minutes. This jives with my recollection of four two-hour episodes, with commercials, broadcast in the winter of early 1989. So YES, this is an edited version: Almost 2-1/2 hours have been removed. That seems a fairly severe abridgement. I wouldn't consider buying such a chop-up of this great, great Western. Five stars for the original film, one star for chainsaw editing.
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The first point I would like to make is although Kevin Murphy performed and voiced the puppet Tom Servo on MST3K, this is a book about going to the movies. Although a slight amount of material touches on his job with Joel and Mike, this isn't a book about Mystery Science Theater. That said, this book is a treasure. It's not really about film, or cinema, or the art of the motion picture; it's about the process of going to the movies. It's about soul-less multiplexes with sticky floors and jewel-perfect theatres built in private homes. It's about the popcorn and the soda and the guy on MovieFone. And, through this investigation of the movie-going rituals, we can see anew the miracle of… Read more
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Mark Kurlansky has written a witty and erudite history of mankind's love affair with salt. From Lake Yuncheng 8,000 years ago in what is now modern-day China to the fine granular perfection of a box of Morton's, Kurlansky uses salt as a lens through which to view the development of technology and nations. He ends the book with the not un-ironic recognition of what took eighty centuries to achieve -- abundant, perfect white salt -- is now common, cheap and disdained. This is an informal and amusing book, filled with what seems solid research and clear thinking. Half history and half food writing, Kurlansky visits Portugese cod-fishing fleets and Roman salt mines, ancient Asian saltworks… Read more
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