Stan's Recent Reviews

It’s no secret that I’m a Star Trek fan from way back.  I was lucky enough to travel to Las Vegas and go through Star Trek:  The Experience which featured numerous costumes and props from all the series and movies along with an interactive ride that put you on the bridge of the starship Enterprise.  I took three trips to Las Vegas and went to Star Trek:  The Experience every time.

What makes a best friend?  I’ve had a few in my life and there really wasn’t anything that similar between them.  We just managed to click and complement each other’s personality.  I shared some similar interests with them; but there were just as many if not more things we didn’t have in common.  It is an unfortunate fact that it is a rare combination of similar and dissimilar personality traits that makes a best friend and that mixture is difficult to find especially as we get older.

Have you poured out a bowl of your favorite cereal, got the milk from the fridge, poured the milk over your cereal and taken a big bite only to discover the milk had gone bad?  That’s an unpleasant surprise.  Have you gone out on a date, eaten dinner at a nice restaurant, had a perfectly nice evening then when you’re ready to leave you discover your car has a flat tire?  That’s an unpleasant surprise.

Often in movies, we see a child being lulled to sleep by a parent reading a fairy tale from a book.  I don’t know about you, but my parents weren’t the bedtime story type.  All my exposure to fairy tales was either via books I read myself or in cartoons.  Most of these were morality tales about telling the truth and the consequences of lying, loyalty in the face of adversity, the benefits of hard work and the power of love.  None of these tales were, to me, terribly scary.