Day: December 28, 2006

Top 10 movie trailers

As of right now, here are the top 10 movie trailers over at the Internet Movie Database. Just in case you want to know what’s coming out in the relatively near future or what others are looking forward to seeing.

Top 10 Trailers Pages

  1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
  2. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
  3. Simpsons Movie, The (2007)
  4. Transformers (2007)
  5. Rocky Balboa (2006)
  6. 300 (2007)
  7. Eragon (2006)
  8. Apocalypto (2006)
  9. Pursuit of Happyness, The (2006)
  10. Night at the Museum (2006)

On the movie front, I’m looking forward to numbers 1, 2, and 6. I may also eventually see 3, 4, 5 (yes, label me a loser if you haven’t already), and 7.

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2006 – The year in political gaffes

Covering a number of the bigger foul-ups by politicians, ABC news’ coverage of this years political blunders highlights thing such as the unravelling of a Presidential candidate to a former candidate’s poorly made joke to hunting with the VP. Here are just a few highlights.

  • Rebuilding a Metaphor

    New Orleans Democratic Mayor Ray Nagin, during a City Hall tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. last January, committed one of the year’s earliest flubs when he called on the African-American community to rebuild a “chocolate New Orleans” in the post-Katrina landscape.

    I can tell you that I was surprised when I heard this comment. New Orleans is far too hot and humid to make for a good chocolate manufacturing city. Not that I ever recall the city being involved in the production of chocolate before Katrina hit. And what else could he possibly mean by this?

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