8 Food Products that Make the Crohn's Diet Enjoyable

My husband has Crohn's disease, an Inflamitory Bowel Disease that causes ulcers in the mouth, stomach, and intestinal tract (more here). With medicine and a certain diet, Kyle can control the disease. Though the diet varies for the many sufferers of Crohn's disease, most can agree on dairy, red meat, and alcohol as a common irritant. Even Lactaid milk products bother him. Kyle also has to avoid too much High Fructose Corn Syrup and roughage, but...

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Hanna: A Complete, Multi-Layer, Film Experience

For my first wedding anniversary I received a gift of paper, according to tradition. Paper was in the form of tickets to see any movie at the theatre local to my parents. The problem was that this theatre is small and doesn't show much. The choices seemed to be horror and the flood of celebrity-voiced 3D animated movies that are out right now-- and not even the Johnny Depp one!Thor isn't out until next week and Brides Maids until the week after....

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Ten Worst Cast Superheroes of BlockBuster Film

As a follow-up to the Ten BEST Cast Superheroes, I thought I'd present a list of the worst. Some of these were really easy to decide, but some of these took more effort. Like with the Best Cast list, I had to decide if the casting was bad or if it was just the script.Here they are, some of the worst castings in superhero film/television.10. Toby McGuire as Spider-ManSure, the script was part of this shortcoming, but I'm not really sure that, even...

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The Ten Best Cast Superheroes of Blockbuster Film/Television

This article is about the best cast superheroes of film. A follow-up article about the worst cast will be posted at a later date. I have to clarify that this list is for Blockbuster Films/Television only. We've seen some amazing fan films since the rise of the internet. I posed this question to my brother (who is a huge comic book nerd), to my husband (who is a purist about the comics he knows), and to my Facebook friends, who took off with it. Here...

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True Tales from Retail: The Quiet Phone

So this woman walks into the store late in my shift. The woman is a bit disconnected looking to start with. Maybe her hair was teased, maybe she was electrocuted on the way. She has white hair and a vacant look in her eye. She doesn't look elderly, though, just a little out-of-it. She approaches my associate, Wall.e, with a dinosaur of a portable phone.Now, when I say dinosaur, you have to understand that 10 years in technology time is FOREVER. She has a 10 year old portable phone and she's claiming that we sold her a bad battery. I don't hear...

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A Drama Intervention: How to Avoid RP Drama and Why

This article is tailored specifically to the online, text-based gaming world, but I’m sure that it has many applications in other social or gaming environments. So here it is, How to Avoid RP Drama and Why.“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”-Dorothy NevillI. Why NOT to Participate:i. The Internet is Written in Ink, Not Pencil:It is important...

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Did MTV Just Pay Big Bucks for Plagiarism?

This week MTV announced a pilot for their fall lineup, "Underemployed". The comedy pilot, created by the creator of “Dirty, Sexy Money” is set to shoot this fall. To followers of the web series, "Funemployed", the "Underemployed" description seems oddly familiar.ReelChicago reports “The comedy is about five 20 something college grads and best friends, who go through a series of odd jobs and low-paying gigs as they attempt to start their careers.”"Funemployed", the Web Series created by a group of Savannah College of Art and Design alumnus, follows...

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Fiction: A Creation Myth

WARNING: This post contains adult language. If you are sensitive to profane language, please skip this post. This is a story written for a fiction workshop, later edited for my Fiction Writing I class at SCAD. It is cynical. You have been warned.Ian Kingsley was not conceived out of love. He was never planned; he was never wanted. The most appropriate way to explain how Ian came to be was to say that his parents fucked.Raised by a variety of housekeepers and babysitters, his mind hadn’t formed quite right. He didn’t like animals like other children....

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Photoshop Goodies: Greek God Icons

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Casting Couch: Fantastic Four

My brother and I love to play at casting books and particularly comic books. The Fantastic Four series with Jessica Alba was alright, but it had major flaws (especially the second one) and Marvel has announced plans to reboot it. So who should play the fantastic four? Thing was amazingly cast, but keeping any one member of the cast would be confusing the the dimmer movie goers. They would start to wonder why Johnny Storm is Captain America. We have...

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And Now For Something Completely Different

This is a video of my darling puppy, Apollo, on a low-speed romp around the yard. This video was taken a few months ago. We no longer have grass where he likes to run.I hope that was enjoyable to so...

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Your Highness: Funny in Context

I am going to have to preface this review-- in the spirit of full disclosure-- with the following statement. I adore Natalie Portman. It is rare I find major fault with her work, and usually it is with the overall film and not with her performance. Now that you know where my bias stands, here is my attempt at an objective review of Your Highness (R) starring Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, and Zooey Deschanel.Your Highness was full...

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