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Gum Meal?

I was just at the Wright State bookstore and as I was checking out, the lady at the cash register said “take a free stick of gum” so I did. Who doesn’t like free things? I don’t remember what the gum was called because I threw out the wrapper, but it was sour, then turned sweet like bubble gum. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? Does this mean that the whole meal in a stick of gum concept made popular by Willy Wonka is in our future? I hope so.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

On Saturday, Ryan, Rachel, their mom and I went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. First, a brief comment on the audience. I understand that the books are largely viewed as children’s books, but the books really grow with the characters and by the time the sixth book comes around, the students are fourteen and the general tone is pretty dark and depressing… cause that’s what fourteen-year-olds are like. They are. It’s true. My problem, then, is not with the books or the movie, but with the parents who allow their VERY young children (like under the age of eight, as young as around two or three) to come to the movie theatre for the seven o’clock showing and sit through two and a half hours of gruesome and scary scenes. Let’s be honest – if I was really young and saw this movie, it would probably scar me for life (much like the movie It – that is terrifying and you know it). In fact, when the inferi come out of the water I jumped, as did most of the audience including the rea