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 We can’t remember when, exactly, but there was a brief moment in time when it was actually exciting to get an e-card. Yeah! Someone’s thinking about me! That feeling quickly morphed into disdain. Today, we aren’t sure which is worse an e-card or SPAM. The combination of the awful music, cheesy graphics, and the codes you have to type in to retrieve them made us long for the days of sappy Hallmark cards.
Then we heard about Rattlebox.com, an e-card company that’s tongue in cheek and has the pitch perfect card to celebrate any milestone or help you backtrack out of a kerfuffle. All of the cards on Rattlebox are video clips – produced from 40,000 hours of raw footage, including kitschy vintage PSAs, old-school animation and tons of irreverent content. The R-rated ones come with a caution label, so you won’t have to send a card apologizing for your card. For those you looking for that “edge,” click here for their provocative card section.Of course, there are more traditional cards. Categories include birthdays, thinking of you, love/dating, weddings/marriages, graduation, invites, anniversary, insults, and many more. You can e-mail, IM, blog, or post the card to the recipient’s Facebook or MySpace page. It’s nice when the tagline of a company is actually true: e-cards that don’t suck. |
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 Average Americans had their first opportunity ever to see world events beamed directly into their living rooms through television and the documentary, Victory At Sea. Considered so significant a milestone in broadcasting and keeping our history safe, the entire 26-series documentary was run without commercial breaks. Add to that the timeless Richard Rodgers soundtrack, and it’s no wonder Victory at Sea won Emmy and Peabody awards for excellence in public affairs programming! All 26 ground-breaking episodes of Victory at Sea have been lovingly restored using today’s technology and come complete with modern introductions for each installment. History, not Hollywood, gives this series the power to make us realize how relatively secure the United States has been since World War II. |
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 If you are looking for the mind-numbing special effects movie-goers have come to expect at your neighborhood multiplex, don’t order this magnificently real perspective on war in general. The Hurt Locker won the 2010 Best Picture Oscar…against strong competition from a technologically overwrought marvel like Avatar. Leave it to a woman, Kathryn Bigelow, to direct the 2010 Best Picture Oscar winner. This is not a movie about the politics of war; this is a movie about war being the job that the characters do. And, speaking of characters…Jeremy Renner is magnificent as the resourceful staff sergeant who is addicted to the adrenaline rush of life-on-the-edge.
Interesting, isn’t it, how there are some movies that are best enjoyed in the privacy of your home…instead of a crowded theater? Your home is the perfect setting to view this intense and “must see” Best Picture of the year. |
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 Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds, a nominee for Best Picture Oscar. As war raged in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” was on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with “action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue” Basterds is another Tarantino masterpiece with a crowd-pleasing revision to history.
We found ourselves laughing aloud at the over-the-top antics of the Basterds…and then, being shocked at ourselves upon absorbing the fact that those antics were savage and brutal as only Tarantino can do savagery and brutality. And, speaking of funny, savage and brutal…all in one sentence…the performance of Christoph Waltz, as the diabolically sinister and evil Nazi, was the only choice for Best Supporting Actor honors at the Oscars.
Turn off the phone, pop the popcorn, chill the beverage, get in the comfy sweats…you need to watch this perspective on war without interruption. |
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 You are the only one who knows your true passions. They might include a certain guy, a certain beach or dark chocolate. Why not take digital photographs of your passions and upload them to Sticky Pals over the Internet. Within a few days, the folks there will send you beautiful 12” X 18” (or 18” X 12”), peel and stick wall graphics called Sticky Pals, which you can use to decorate your work or living environment. If you’re not sure how to arrange them, you might apply the Sticky Pal of that certain guy to your bedroom ceiling, where you can gaze into his baby blues first thing every morning and last thing every night. Then, when your mom phones to say she’s coming to visit, you can easily rearrange all your Sticky Pals – putting them back where you want them as soon as she leaves. Sticky Pals peel off and re-stick over and over again. You can even choose the exciting, uniquely animated cartoon effect for your photographs, called Sticky Toons. So go ahead – fill your space, and your life, with love and passion! |
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