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About Jason McClain Jason is an aspiring novelist, which means there is a lot of time to put off writing and watch baseball or go fly-fishing, hiking and traveling. By "a lot of time", Jason means "procrastination."

Top Five Destinations of Lancaster, CA

Posted February 6, 2014

I’m not sure what it is that makes Lancaster, California seem pretty far away when it isn’t that far from Los Angeles. It’s still over an hour drive there from downtown even ...

Top Five Movies of Brooke Smith

Posted February 4, 2014

I would have to think that every actor has a role like Brooke Smith’s “Sobbing Prisoner” in “The Man Who Wasn’t There.” I figure if a character doesn’t have a name, i ...

Top Five Destinations of Honolulu

Posted January 30, 2014

Within the first year of writing for TSB Mag, I looked at the possible destinations of Oahu. Well, as part of my continuing look at cities and what to do when you visit, I think it ...

Top Five Movies of Imogen Poots

Posted January 28, 2014

I have to admit that I saw the name Imogen Poots more than a couple of times before I thought to see what she looked like. She’s not a contemporary of Dame Judi Dench or Dame Mag ...

Top Five Destinations of Juneau

Posted January 23, 2014

The first thing I thought about when I sat down to write about Juneau, Alaska was that it would have worked well in an Abbott and Costello routine. Lou: Hey Abbott, where are you g ...

Top Five Movies of Kim Basinger

Posted January 22, 2014

I really thought that I would have the easiest time selecting great Kim Basinger movies. It seems like she’s been around all of my movie life and looking at her movie credits, sh ...

Top Five Destinations of Anchorage

Posted January 16, 2014

I need to return to Anchorage. It has been way too long since I could walk on a city trail and spy a moose around the bend. It gets the blood pumping as you have to avoid eye conta ...

Top Five Movies of Juliette Lewis

Posted January 14, 2014

I think it’s kind of interesting that the week a woman tried to create the most reprehensible dating profile ever is the week I chose to look at the movies of Juliette Lewis. Let ...

Top Five Destinations of Shreveport

Posted January 9, 2014

I have to be honest, I’m blank when it comes to the town of Shreveport, Louisiana. It’s close to the borders of Texas and Arkansas, two states where I have a bit of familiarity ...

Top Five Movies of Julianne Nicholson

Posted January 7, 2014

Julianne Nicholson has the unfortunate distinction to have starred in the movie that gave me the most physically distressing reaction in a theater ever. No, it wasn’t a horror mo ...