Top Five Destinations of Bakersfield
Sometimes the best way to figure out cool destinations comes not from travel sites or star systems, but just from talking with friends. The other day I happened to mention the country music show from long ago, “Hee-Haw” and then how Buck Owens came...
Top Five Movies of Rosamund Pike
The cliché reads, “The grass is always greener on the other side.” There’s always going to be a younger or hotter girl. There’s always going to be a cooler party, a better bar scene. Another city will offer more interesting things to do. The...
Top Five Destinations of Tucson
I don’t think I’ve ever really considered visiting Tucson. I mean, if I’m going to go to a big city in Arizona, Phoenix is the one with the easy to get to airport, it’s about two hours closer if I chose to drive and by virtue of being bigger,...
Top Five Movies of Kerry Washington
I love to think about why I like things. Why do I find certain women attractive? Why do I love “Dumb and Dumber” and find “The Hangover” idiotic? Why do I find “Best in Show” hilarious and “Waiting for Guffman” cruel? Why don’t I even...
Top Five Destinations of Vancouver, British Columbia
Of course Vancouver is in Canada. It wouldn’t be anywhere else (unless it is the one near Portland, but that’s not the Vancouver everyone thinks about when they think Vancouver. Well, everyone but…never mind.) It’s got a hockey team and that used...
Top Five Movies of Catherine Zeta-Jones
When I looked over the movies of Catherine Zeta-Jones, the first word that popped into my head was “fun.” There is nothing wrong with serious movies that explore what it means to be human, how it feels when sorrow seeps into every aspect of your existence,...
Top Five Destinations of Albuquerque
It’s funny how cartoons have impacted my life. For example, whenever I hear a popular piece of classical music, I don’t think of composers wearing wigs or symphonies filling auditoriums with glorious music. I think of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and...
Top Five Movies of Laura Linney
The last few weeks, I’ve been seeing Laura Linney a lot. It’s not because we casually run into each other at Intelligentsia Coffee as we both procure a tasty beverage and she tries to go unnoticed and I try to go unnoticed noticing her. No, it’s...
Top Five Destinations of Cleveland
I think Cleveland has always been a punch line. So, it is no surprise that the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of traveling to Cleveland is this video. I have to admit that I’d love to write that destination article. See Construction Cleveland...
Top Five Movies of Lucy Liu
Sometimes I would rather watch an awful movie than a good one. I don’t have to turn my brain on, I can just let mounds of crap wash over me, I can cringe a little, I can laugh a lot (assuming it isn’t a bad comedy because then there is no laughing...
Top Five Destinations of Jacksonville
When I think of Jacksonville, I don’t think about beaches. I don’t think about the Atlantic Ocean. I don’t think about the South. I don’t even think about Florida. I think about the Archers. What are the Archers, you ask? It was one of the names...
Top Five Movies of Carrie-Anne Moss
It’s kind of interesting how things disappear from our lives. Changes in addresses, jobs, schools, interests all can have an impact on how our daily lives change. There may be friends that we stay in touch with from different parts of our lives and...
Top Five Destinations of Pittsburgh
I think we are all born to make generalizations. (At least that’s my excuse for that last sentence.) You see one snake, you’ve seen them all, and they’re all foul creatures capable of killing you by just hissing at you. (I may be speaking from a...
Top Five Movies of Elisabeth Shue
Since I moved to Los Angeles, I get to see celebrities out and about in normal life. Sometimes it’s just people doing everyday things, but most of the time it’s at places you’d expect like walking by the red carpet to a premiere as I’m going to...
Top Five Destinations of Birmingham
Once I moved to the west coast, I became aware of the term “flyover state” which meant the great swath of land between Los Angeles and New York City (or San Francisco and Boston, wherever your east coast and west coast allegiances lay.) Up to that...
Top Five Movies of Catherine Keener
Sometimes change is a good thing. Not always, maybe not very often, and probably as little as possible, but it can be a good thing. Sometimes you want things to say exactly as they are until the end of time, whether it has to do with children and the...
Top Five Destinations of Louisville
When I looked at the Top Five Destinations of Cincinnati, I started to wonder about a couple destinations that seemed relatively close by. Then, I looked at a map and realized that Cincinnati and Louisville are less than 100 miles apart. I thought to...
Top Five Movies of Nicole Kidman
I have no clue if Nicole Kidman has had plastic surgery or not. It reminds me of steroids in baseball. Yes, there were a lot of players that used, but showing me pictures of a skinny 18-year-old and comparing it to a muscle-bound 28-year-old doesn’t...
Top Five Destinations of Cincinnati
Only six hours from my hometown, I never visited Cincinnati. Crossing back and forth across the eastern United States, I never even passed through the city. My tires crunched the pavement leading to Louisville, Columbus, and Indianapolis, but never approached...
Top Five Movies of Famke Janssen
Do you ever get actors or actresses linked in your head? And once that happens, you start to get them confused? Michael Madsen and Tom Sizemore became the first pair to flip back and forth in my mind. Their names started to overlap in my head and I expected...
