Author Archives: Lyle Verbilion

About Lyle Verbilion

I'm just wanderin' around lookin' at things. Wow.

Froggy Met a Princess

Somewhere around 2004 Disney shut down their animation studio and disbanded it. The future was computer animation, not hand-drawn stuff. Their competitors found themselves awash with well-trained talent. In 2009, Disney released a new hand-drawn cartoon, The Princess and the … Continue reading

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Lars Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Mental illness in movies is usually just a metaphor. In the movies, people tend to recover. It’s uplifting. Lars and the Real Girl is about this troubled guy who introduces a blow-up doll as his girlfriend. But it’s not what … Continue reading

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Thor’s Day Is Such a Crazy Lazy Day

Before the Thor movie began, there was a trailer for the upcoming Captain America. It shows a scrawny Steve Rogers turning into a buff & cut Captain A. So you know they used computers to make the actor scrawny. And … Continue reading

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Is There a Word?

It’s always about coffee, isn’t it? On weekends, I make the stuff with a cone filter thingy. At the sink I pour freshly filtered water into my water kettle. I place the kettle on the stove, on the biggest burner. … Continue reading

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Playin’ the Game

I love being manipulated by movies. Especially when I don’t see it coming, or when it’s done some way that I’m not used to. We decided to watch Play the Game because Andy Griffith is in it. What could be … Continue reading

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Cookie’s Fortunate

It’s got a dumb name, if you ask me, but nevertheless you’ve got to see Cookie’s Fortune. It’s a film from 1999 starring Liv Tyler, Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Charles S. Dutton, Lyle Lovett, and a whole bunch of other … Continue reading

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Re-Learning to Live Pt 2

So what really is the best way to eat? Michael Pollan famously said “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Go ahead and read or re-read the whole article, I can wait. It’s definitely worth it. So basically you want … Continue reading

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Re-Learning to Live Pt 1

My wife thinks she’s going through a mid-life crisis. I’ve been going through one since I was thirteen, and I think that she’s wrong. She’s decided that it’s time to re-learn how to live. Shouldn’t we all be doing more … Continue reading

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Non-native Eradication

Around these parts we have Native American casinos. A lot of once big-time musical acts show up there. And every few miles there’s a smaller gaming center, so you’re never too far away from slot machines or less expensive cigarettes. … Continue reading

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Trans-Canine Engenderism

We have this dog named Lady. Do you have any idea what kind of dog she is? Seriously, we’d love to know! The hair surrounding her ears makes her ears look major huge. So I had this dream. For some … Continue reading

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