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The Prestige

Prestige

http://theprestige.movies.go.com/

A Magic Trick has 3 parts or acts:
The Pledge; the magician shows you something ordinary, but of course it probably isn’t.
The Turn; the magician makes is ordinary something do something extraordinary.
(Now you’re looking for the secret but you won’t find it, which brings us to the third act)
The Prestige; the part with the twists and turns, and you see something shocking that you’ve never seen before.

Last night C and I went out with another couple to dinner and to see The Prestige.
An excellent movie, I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it. It’s not quite as fast paced and ‘thrilling’ as the trailer would have you believe, but it’s still quite good.

It seems to be getting average ratings of 8 or so on a scale of 1-10 and that’s pretty accurate. The acting is quite good, Michael Cane is always good and even David Bowie as Professor Tesla wasn’t too bad.

The Prestige at IMdb

I think an 8 out 10 is just about right.

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Andy Furman, 700WLW Good Riddance

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Andy Furman, to know him is to either love him or hate him, there is no in-between.

He’s been on 700WLW for a long time. The Enquirer says 18 years. I don’t think he’s been ‘the’ personality for 18 years but he’s been around for a long time.

(pull)I know he’s been aggravating me and making Sports-Talk hard to listen too for a very, very long time(/pull). Sports fans listen to sports shows to talk about sports, not racial conspiracy theories.

Andy wasn’t always a bigot and a racist but he’s always been at or over the top obnoxious. That was just his style. Over the last few years however he’s really turned it up a notch or 10.

I completely understand there are sport figures and teams (the lowly Bengals who hadn’t won in 10 years would be in that group) who deserve to be dug into from time to time.

Talk radio is about stirring the pot. But Andy’s style was far too aggressive, far too obnoxious, and far too vile.

I don’t know if it was simply jealousy, or what. But it was always clear; Andy had no respect for anyone, except those who kissed his butt. No matter what the issue, Andy it seemed would turn it into a racial issue. I mean it really didn’t matter. Certainly there was a time and place, during the Cincinnati riots, where race was an issue and a top ‘button’ to push. But I never really understood how that affected our sports teams? Once in a while, there might actually be a race related story out there. But with Andy, playing the race card was a weekly occurrence.

People like to try and compare Andy to Bill Cunningham. Bill Cunningham is an entertainer, he’s also borderline obnoxious. But that’s his style. A style that was in place long before Andy came around. When Willey was on during the night time, he too was often controversial, the difference was, Willy made sense most of the time. Rarely did he reach beyond common logic.

Andy it appeared to me, tried to steal from Cunningham’s play book, only in a more vile and hate spreading way. Andy simply went way too far, too often, and I for one am surprised it took this long to get rid of him.

Nope, Andy you won’t be missed by many. Only those whose butts you’ve kissed along the way and somehow avoided offending. After all these years, I don’t know how many people that could be, maybe 5 or 6?

Good luck to you in your future endeavors.

Enquirer Story

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November…

This time of year just blows.

We’ve turned back the clocks, and while I used to appreciate the extra hour of sleep, now that I’m older I also recognize that the kids just gained an extra hour before bed time.

I mean, 9pm or 10pm rolls around and I’m tired, because it’s really 10pm or 11pm, or was. At 8pm which used to be 9pm, I’m ready to send the kids to bed or at least start the process which takes an hour, sometimes two. But they look at the clock and say, no way, it’s only 8pm.

It’s now dark a whole lot sooner after I get off work.

The weather, It is sunny one day, cold the next, cold and rainy the day after that, then mildly warm again, then who knows after that?

Do we really need Winter? I mean if it is going to get cold, just get cold. This in between stuff isn’t any good.

Yeah, this time of year is no good.

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Rest easy Bengals fans, Marvin says; “We’re Fine”

All Bengals Fans know Marvin Lewis is “The Man???. But we also know he’s a pathological liar as well. There’s nothing wrong with being tight lipped at a press conference, or forever being the optimist.

But come on Marvin, for crying out loud. (pull)“We’re fine, we’re onto the Baltimore Ravins. It’s an important game for us.???(/pull)

Well no kidding, important? Yep. Critical more like it, A lost to Baltimore would be dare I say it, very upsetting, but a win could right the ship and fix a lot of things. Yes winning does calm the savage Bengals fans. But we’re not stupid Marvin. We’ve noticed that even our wins this year haven’t come as easily as they should.

We haven’t put teams away like we should have put them away. Tampa Bay… What was that?

We could easily be sitting 2 and 5 like Pittsburgh but we’re not. The Steelers game and the Panthers game could have gone the other way very, very easily.

But hey, we’re not, we’re 4-3. Marvin, it’s time to come clean. I can appreciate you not wanting to ‘divulge any secrets’, or ‘feed the upcoming team any info’ and certainly you don’t need to. We have Dave Lapham for that, he explained it on the radio just what your facemask play is. Nice… So if Carson looks over and see’s the DB giving Chad lots of room he touches his face mask. That’s the quick out. Uhuh, nice Dave, thanks for giving that to Baltimore. So pick a new signal this week. Mix it up too so they can’t key on that.

What we want to hear from you at a press conference is to call out the plays, the mistakes, and shoulder some accountability. We know you’ll fix it, we just want to hear it.

I for one am worried. 8-8 is looking good at this point, and 8-8 isn’t getting us in the playoffs this year.

I’m worried that we’re not that good this year. So show us that we are. Show us that that 3-0 start (7-0) with pre-season, and the end of last season, the post season that never happened wasn’t a one time fluke.

I don’t want to hear “We’re Fine??? when it’s clear we are not so fine.

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Bengals going backwards 4-3 as Atlanta takes them in a shoot out.

I’m not a professional sports coordinator, but the Falcons didn’t do much different this week than they did last week. How Crumpler could be so wide open is beyond me.

(pull)I know the Bengals offensive line has ISSUES, but with the weapons we have, you have to adjust.(/pull) Change some plays so that they aren’t the same telegraphed screens and quick outs to the running backs that get us zero yards.

Those don’t seem to be keeping the defenses honest or taking any pressure of Carson. When a team can rush three and still sack the quarterback and force a fumble, that’s pretty sad. Once again Carson spent too much time on the ground.

Rudy again had some reasonable gains, but there isn’t enough consistency there to keep a defense honest either.

The Bengals have talent, but they aren’t using it effectively. Again, I know the line is beat up. It’s almost non-existent. That seems to happen in the NFL when you dump a lot of money in something does it not? You also can’t give teams two years to look at the same stuff. You need to change up and improve.

Are other teams catching on? I think so.

Come on Marvin, after the way Atlanta played in against Pittsburgh you should have expected nothing less. In fact what you got today was no different, not at all.