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Okay, so I’m a huge fan of the Twilight series – not so much the movies, but definitely the books. The third movie in the series just came out and I just returned home from seeing it. It was… okay. The acting was horrendous, and they put everyone in this super thick makeup that was insane. Bella looked way too made up, like it was an attempt to make her look more attractive, but succeeded only in making her look like a drag queen. Plus, her eyebrows weren’t the same, and that is distracting. The acting from her was, as always, crappy. Slightly better than the last movie, but marginally. Edward acted… weird the whole time. I don’t know if they made him act differently or something, but the connection between him and Bella just wasn’t there. This is something that kind of bugs me about the series when they adapted it to film. When you read the books, it’s Edward all the way. You kind of feel bad for Jacob but not really because it’s so obvious that Edward and Bella are supposed to be tog...

I love the World Cup. I have never really been a fan of soccer – probably because I’m an American. We, in general, hate soccer because we suck at it and the scores are always really low and it’s pretty boring. However, spend 20 or 30 minutes listening to guys talk about how the game is played and it suddenly becomes wicked interesting. Except off-sides. I still don’t get that. I highly encourage everyone to watch the World Cup – not so much this time because it’s almost over, but next time for sure. My favorite team is Argentina because they are awesome. Granted, they just got stomped by Germany REALLY bad and are out of the World Cup, but they still rock. America sucks at it, but who cares. It’s fun to watch and it’s like the Olympics, only the same game over and over. At first you get mad because nobody ever scores and sometimes the final score is 0-0. But you know what? When they DO score, it’s awesome and super exciting. You can’t say that about basketball because the score is like...