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I was afraid. Very afraid.

Someone on a vegan community I visit (I'm only a strict vegetarian, but I do like vegan foods) recommended this drink to me. I liked the same brand's Perfectly Protein Vanilla Chai drink, but this was scary.


"Green Goodness"

Ingredients: Apple Juice from concentrate (apple juice concentrate, water), Pineapple Juice from concentrate (pineapple juice concentrate, water), Mango Puree from concentrate (mango puree concentrate, water), Banana Puree, Kiwi Juice, Natural Flavor, Spirulina, Tamarind Puree, Open Cell Chlorella, Lime Juice, Zinc Sulfate, Broccoli, Brewed Green Tea, Spinach, Barley Grass, Wheat Grass, Blue-Green Algae, Echinacea Purpurea Extract, Odorless Garlic, Dragon Fruit Juice, Lemon Bioflavonoids, Nova Scotia Dulce and Jerusalem Artichoke.
I normally can't stand vegetable juice. Spinach? Broccoli? Garlic? Algae? Open Cell Chlorella? Open Cell Wha-?

The first taste. This stuff is weird, and has an aftertaste.

I stuck a straw in it, and sipped. Hey, this isn't bad. I kept sipping. Drank it with my meal, which consisted of a seasoned broccoli and mushroom stir-fry.

Continued drinking it in all its greenness. And now I'm a convert.


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From beginning to end, it kept me watching and caringI really started thinking about important life questions... am I making the right choices? Am I leading the life I want? This is a mentor vs. student story and how each learns from the other. It is a very touching and pleasant film. It doesn't aim for excellence, nor shoot too low with its unfit humor.

Seems like every movie i see gets a 7.

Good
- Topher
- Quaid
- Just an enjoyable movie

Bad
- Its still a romantic comedy

Final Grade: 7/10, B.

I've got to say................a lot of things have been happening lately in my life, and not all of them are good. It's true, for every cause, there is an effect. For every action, there is a reaction. For every pro, there's a con. For example.
PRO - I'm working more hours, therefore, I'm getting fatter paychecks.
CON - I'm becoming more and more angry at work, burning myself out, my girlfriend complains about my lack of time and energy, and I can't find a good sleep routine.
PRO - I got a new apartment.
CON - I rarely, if ever, get to enjoy it.
PRO - I've got more friends than I used to have.
CON - A lot of them I can only take in small doses.

I seriously feel lethal lately, almost on the verge of frenzy. This is not a good thing. People make smartass comments to me, and I used to shrug them off and come back with something even better. Now I just want them to eat a sledgehammer in the teeth. There is something wrong with that. I don't want this attitude, but it just happens. I seriously think about fighting each and every person that has something critical to say to me, and that's not how I used to be, which sucks. I should be happy.

But I'm not.

OK, so there's lots to catch up on. So much that I think the only way to deal with it is through the use of bullet points:
While my brother was with us, he, Nancy and I ate at a Chinese restaurant that appeared to be run be people that have only read about Chinese food on the internet. It was peculiar. I'm still not entirely convinced that cannoli is the correct dessert choice after chinese...
I got myself a Quebec Nordiques shirt. It is very cool.

The Quebecois are perhaps the only people in the world that appear to be worse drivers than those from Boston. Which is really saying something.
While in North Caroline, we met up with DNAthespliceoflife and his wife, Wife o' DNAthespliceoflife (side question - if those were superhero names, what would their powers be? And if you were an evildoer, do you think you'd be scared of them?). They're good friends with the late, lamented socialsomatic and his wife, and they're fantastic! It's now the third time that I've met people in person that I've originally gotten to know over the internet, and each time it's been a great experience! It's a bit odd sometimes (e.g. how does everyone that we've just met know about Darwin? He's doing really well, by the way...), but overall, really cool.

The last airplane movie I had from the trip over was In Good Company. Not much to say about it - I think Dissent nailed it perfectly in his review. I give it one more tomato than him mainly just because it was a little bit different. If they hadn't handled some parts of it so melodramatically, it could have been quite good. Oh well.

So, I'm off to my conference. I'm presenting my poster (which sucks) today, and then I have an actual talk (which is better) to give tomorrow.

I hope that everyone that is around hurricanes or bombs is ok!

Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger

3 stars out of 4

The first time I saw this, I was extremely disappointed. I was looking forward to a sharp comedy about ageing, insecurity, and corporate ruthlessness. The second time I saw it, I realized that this is exactly what it is. Sure, the result may not be as wonderful as I had hoped, but it still does exactly what it set out to do, and does it well.

Perhaps it was more like a 7.5, but nonetheless, this movie was quite good. Cheesy, perhaps. But I think the thing that it had over other similar films is that when it could have taken the typical, expected route, it didn't. Topher Grace is really funny. I think he is the best character from That 70's Show after all, much better than the loud and obnoxious Ashton Kutcher character. It reminds me that I wanted to enjoy the movie "Win a Date With Tad Hamilton" because Grace was in it, but it was no good. However, being in a movie with Scarlett Johanssen and Dennis Quaid was a much better move for Grace. This was also my first Scarlett experience, because the movie "Lost in Translation" looked a little boring to me. Perhaps I'll give it a try now. Anyhow, In Good Company was funny and sweet, although the end was a little annoying, because Grace did not end up at all where he started out. But perhaps that is a good thing. Once again, they didn't do any of the things that I expected, and I suppose not all films should, or else movies would become very boring. I definitley recommend this one to anyone who wants to be surprised at how good it really is.

In Good Company



TOTAL: 86%: In Good Company is a great movie about corporate policy and how it affects the employees. It comes with a great cast and a great script. If you see this one on the shelves for a rental, it's not a bad decision to pick it up.

I watched this movie without reading any of the reviews. The only thing I knew was what I saw in the trailer. There were a few funny moments, but overall I would not classify this movie as a comedy. The romance was forced and artificial. Topher's character seemd to really love Scarlett, but she seemed to really not care about him, which made her look rather sleazy when she suddenly came on to him. I felt all the relationships in this movie were very shallow and undeveloped. Noone seemd to really care about anyone, and there was very little character development. In the end, I have no idea if there was a point, other than "Stuff Happens". No one grew, no one changed, no new friendships were formed. It was neither a tragedy nor a success story. It was nothing. I was very surprised to see that it seems everyone who saw this film liked it. Generally I agree with the ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but not even close in this case. I wish I would have avoided this movie, and I recommend you avoid it. Save your money. Save your time.

Still in search of another Johansson fix, I rented the movie IN GOOD COMPANY that no campaign ever inspired me to see, even though it has a great cast. What a mistake. I am a foolish man sometimes.

This light comedy-drama looks at the impacts of corporate take-overs can have on those who work for those companies. It all begins when Dan Foreman's (Dennis Quaid) employer gets taken over by a profit-hungry multi-media conglomerate. Dan gets demoted out of his sales director's job and replaced by a no-experience ladder-climbing 26 year old snot named Carter Duryea played by (Topher Grace of That 70's Show).

Things don't go well for both characters, for which you will both sympathise because they are both the good guys of this story, thrown together by circumstance. Carter, new to the newly acquired company will do anything to make friends with his employees, more so because his new bride left him because he's to career oriented and not enough of a man. So eventually he invites himself over to Dan's home for super after an impromptu Sunday afternoon meeting with the team.

The super is of course a major disaster. Dan has a pregnant wife and 2 daughters, one of whom wants to transfer to NYU to pursue her studies as a writer. She is also could have been a professional tennis player, but the tom-boy label she is burdened with haunts her. Alex, is played by the yummy Scarlett Johansson... wish there were more tomboys like her around. When Alex and Carter meet, the sparks fly on both sides but the situation calls for discretion, with Dad never far away and he's already not liking Carter because he took his job, obviously.

The love story blossoms under the cover of the dorm room bed and Dan's life keeps getting complicated since his new employer has to cut some folks off to of course maximise profits. This whole do more with less ideology has always irritated me to no end but I will not go on a rampaging diatribe on the subject. So Dan has to fire the employees he himself had hired and became friends with. While Carter, to young to truly understand how buttering up your clients work, tries and tries to make it work but can't, all the while keeping the relationship with Dan's daughter a secret.

The "love scene" between Alex and Carter is uncomfortably real in its awkwardness and clumsiness, which makes it very sweet. Carter really fell for her and is changing his worldview as a result. Slowly this impacts the relationship with Dan. Until the fit hits the shan. First, Dan finds out about Alex and Carter, then the company's wingman is now threatening the team with extermination if they don't make some numbers real soon. This is where the team has to get over their personal problems and pool together all their options to survive the takeover.

Great actors are what make great movies and this movie is filled with them. TO begin with Dennis Quaid, is very good as the vulnerable and broken aging company man. Scarlett plays the tom-boy girl-next-door to perfection, even giving herself a deep voice to make herself sound less feminine. She's commanding in this role. Takes no prisoners. Then the big surprise is Topher Grace. I had seen him only in That 70's Show and Traffic. This guy can really act and is very good in his role and has this intensity in his eyes that propels him to a new level far beyond That 70's Show and I can't wait to see how he turns it up in Spiderman 3.

The movie is also a good study of characters and a scatting look at big corporations. Working in on of the biggest IT companies in North-America, I can only relate. All the archetypal office characters are there and loaded. The moving of offices, the jiber-jaber and speculation of employees is tart enough to know just how real it is.

This company gets taken over by a 8 outta 10.