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Tropic Thunder
On August 13th, a new movie, Tropic Thunder, with Ben Stiller and Robert Downey, Jr. will be released. The movie, a $90 million investment from the studio, is revealed through its trailer and advance notices to be offensive to people with developmental disabilities. Stiller and Downey play actors and in one scene, Downey berates Stiller [...]
I hate OLM.NET
OLM.NET sucks. If I can make that any plainer please let me know. They took down downsyn.com yesterday because the site is being hit by too much spam. Well, yes, I know that and I have told them to simply delete all email to the domain. But they couldn’t handle that so I had all [...]
Our Neighbor’s Tree
When the houses in our neighborhood were built in 1950, the builder planted a small maple tree in the front lawn of each house. Over the years the maple trees have become huge and the ones that remain tower over the houses. The trees themselves are pretty but they release pollen in the spring and [...]
Is this heaven?
I am reading the book, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and there was a little part that I wanted to share… The narrator of the story is a young boy named Oskar. Oskar has gone upstairs to visit the old man who lives in the apartment above him. The man, who [...]
Move along… nothing to see here
My blog has moved to my new blog over at downsyn.com Click here to visit the new place….
About books
The very lovely and talented Debra over at deblog and book-blog is sponsoring a contest to win a free book! All you have to do is answer a bunch of questions about books and then tag three people before September 30th. Now that I host a bunch of blogs I have plenty of people to [...]
Another blog
I have been blogging on my web site since I installed blogging software that integrates with my forum. I’m not sure if I should be repeating my entries here or if I will abandon this blog. Or maybe keep them separate? The thing I like about the blog on my site is that I completely [...]
Does it hurt?
It was her knee this time. And the answer is, “no, it didn’t while in recovery” and “yes, it does now”.
Michel in recovery
The surgery went very well and Michel is feeling better than she has in a long time. We should be home in about an hour.
The house is too quiet
Mikey isn’t home. And the house is way too quiet. He is away at camp until Sunday. No therapists. No aides. Just Beth bouncing around the family room playing Dance, Dance Revolution and Michel and me trying to figure out what to do with ourselves. On Tuesday, we took Mikey to his school to meet [...]
