Shorts & Rants: No particular order, tell me your favorites and I will add them to the post.
1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991): Hannibal Lecter’s (Anthony Hopkins) mocking assessment of Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), after she gives him a questionnaire to answer: (“You’re so-o ambitious, aren’t you? You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube, with a little taste. Good nutrition’s given you some length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you’ve tried so desperately to shed – pure West Virginia. What does your father do? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you. All those tedious, sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars, while you could only dream of getting out. Getting anywhere, getting all the way to the F…B…I”); and then after Clarice retorts, he adds his famous line of dialogue: (“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chi-an-ti. You fly back to school now, little Starling. Fly, fly, fly. Fly, fly, fly.”) Pure West Virginia
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Feature: Cape Cod’s Best Blogging Community
Walter Brooks, Publisher and Editor of CapeCodToday.com (cc2day) has built a reputation as The Blogfather of Cape Cod. At 78 Brooks has spent the last five years recruiting over 170 Cape bloggers to cover news from Mashpee to P-Town. Most of the blogs run the gamut from feral howling to finely rendered verse. Many are retirees, or are still working their day jobs. At Cape Cod Today you’ll find ex-politicians, ex-policemen, ex-teachers, current teachers, current harbormasters, and current artists.
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Shorts and Rants: Fast Forward through Your Midlife Crisis
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Feature: Do you belong to a Social Networking site?
When I started Flipside Journey, I started with a simple premise: you can do more on-line than just shopping, surfing and sending emails. In last week’s feature, I referenced several social networking communities. As a follow-up, I spent the last week talking with their members. Each community offers a unique way to get to know people and I found that participating in the various discussion groups was the fastest way to meet people and make new friends.
Where will you spend your time on-line? Who will you share your opinions with? I had some successes and a few failures. Many of the communities I visited are just so new that you may find limited success in meeting people. Here is a sampling of the people I met.
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Shorts & Rants: Choose Your Topic
Interested in meeting, socializing and making new friends online? Here’s a list of of nearly 100+ sites organized by the following categories: Books, Business, Family, Friends, Hobbies & Interests, Shopping, and Travel. You can find even more at the site Social Networking God (a list of over 350 plus 100 more when you read the comments left by others):
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