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The Roommate

May 28, 2011 By Cambria Leave a Comment

Title: The Roommate

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Directed by: Christian E. Christiansen

Format: DVD released May 2011

Rating: PG-13

Starring: Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Cam Gigandet, Alyson Michalka

2,000 Colleges. 8 Million Roommates. Which one will you get?

Sara has a life any normal college student would love to have. She has a few good friends, a really great class list and she meets a hot drummer at frat party who she gets to kiss. One night after a night of said kissing and partying she stumbles home to her dorm to meet her new roommate, Rebecca.

Rebecca is shy and quiet but highly artistic. He beautiful drawings make nice additions to the room walls. She seems friendly enough, offering to share her extensive and awesome clothing and coming to get Sara in the middle of the night when her BFF Tracy ditches her at a party.

But clearly, Rebecca is not right in the head.

Sequences of events begin to happen around Sara and she begins to see that her roommate isn’t who she thought she was.

This movie is a modern day Single White Female. It has been a long time since I watched a movie like this, and it was exactly what I was expecting. It was pretty cliché, but it was entertaining. I kind of found it amusing that it took Sara so long to figure out that Rebecca was cuckoo. Okay, well maybe Sara had an idea, but she tried to be nice and give Rebecca the benefit of the doubt.

Sara was played by Minka Kelly, and she was beautiful and made a great lead. However, in my opinion, she was overshadowed by Leighton Meester, who played crazy perfectly. She managed to capture those flat eyes and empty gazes that are truly creepy. I have seen Leighton Meester acting in her regular role on Gossip Girl, and it was like night and day. The way she was clearly disturbed but managed to appear calm (most of the time) is what was most captivating. I wondered throughout the movie if she was just a mislead girl or truly a psycho.

The movie had all the classic scenes of a thriller. All the characters walked around in the dark half the time, and they never ran from the room when any normal person (or big chicken, such as I) would clearly do. The shower scene where Tracy gets attacked was predictable, and I found myself more horrified by the fact that she was not wearing shower shoes in a common bathroom (Hello, foot fungus!) than I was that she was being stalked. There was even some window dangling and some screaming! I have to say that Rebecca’s manipulation of Sara’s friend Irene was pretty clever and while not completely unexpected-I liked.

And just like any good thriller there was a hot guy. Actually, there were two…but only one makes it out alive…want to find out who? I’m not telling. Rush out to your Redbox, grab your remote for OnDemand or find a video store (do those even exist anymore?) to see who makes it out of this movie alive and who doesn’t. And if you have a roommate….

Sleep with one eye open.

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Brynn, why do today what you can do tomorrow!

October 6, 2010 By Duncan Moron Leave a Comment

Wow, I wrote that title and after reading it again I am wondering how many things you could infer with that statement. Oh come on, are you really slow or am I just not putting enough effort into it. I tried like heck…… Look at that, we really are PG13, I don’t care what all the head honchos in the women’s club say. National really should put more effort into promoting reading instead of letting their jealousy get the better of them. Damn, now what was I talking about. Oh Yah…..

I tried to find out Brynn’s last name, but it seems to have eluded me. I am serious. I looked around for a good 2 to 3 minutes and I couldn’t find it, so I gave up. Maybe I will try again tomorrow, she is obviously worth a little effort. Not that I am procrastinating. After reading the article in The New Yorker about putting things off, I, well, let’s be honest. I meant to read the article, but figured I could read it tomorrow. I am a little busy today, watching TV and eating chips and stuff. I have a full agenda dude.

It isn’t like I am insulting people. Damn, how long has it been since I insulted Catholics. Maybe when I found out I had to convert in order to marry my girlfriend I decided to give them a break. Yes, she is Catholic, what is the world coming to. We let those people do anything don’t we. Crap, I met to say us people. Hahaha, I will be one of them someday, if they will have me I guess.

Please, it isn’t like I work for Universal. Now why would they want to insult gay people? Not that I am gay. Wait; can you be Catholic and gay? I might have to look into that. Not that I have a problem with it, but you know those religious women, always complaining about website links and beautiful women.

Damn, now what does that have to do with homosexuality? If you feel up for it, you can jump over to TMZ and read the article on how Universal is backpedaling by pulling their trailer from distribution. I guess calling electric cars gay is going one step too far. Really? Is that really insulting? Aren’t electric cars a little bit gay? Damn, I might be a little bit Catholic and that is ok. Please people, you can be a little bit of anything. Isn’t that what college is for, experimenting and such. Uh Oh, I bet the women in national just dropped a load when I said that one.

Sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I think it is ok to insult people, just get ready to reap what you sow, or is it sew. I knew I shouldn’t have had that last shot before lunch. I have no idea what I am even writing. In all seriousness if you throw a stone be prepared to get smacked upside the head with a ball bat. Leave gay people alone, there is more than enough material insulting Catholics.

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Drinking age should be Lowered.

July 10, 2010 By Noelle Giebe 1 Comment

Alcohol consumption in the state of California is legal when you become 21. By the time you are 21, you have already graduated high school (hopefully), have your driver’s license, maybe you are even living on your own. By then, and if you are one of the brave ones, you enlisted in the military. You can do all these things before you can drink alcohol legally.

Sure, a lot of us have had our fair share of alcohol before 21 (we all will remember high school), but we did not drink legally. The law states that teenagers of the age of 16, can drive a car that can kill a person in an accident, at 18, civilians can vote for the president of the U.S.A., go to basic training and learn how to use weapon machinery, go to war and experience life altering and life threatening experiences before you can have a drink of alcohol legally. That is just ridiculous.

The U.S. causalities in Iraq are the ages between 20 and 22, meaning people can go to war and die before having a drink of alcohol legally. Has anyone ever thought if someone is responsible enough to go to college, live on their own, drive, vote, make mature and life altering decisions, maybe they are old enough and wise enough to handle alcohol? Just a thought….

Has anyone ever thought High School parties would be more enjoyable if the host and people at the party didn’t have to worry about the police busting them? I don’t have anything against police, I know they enforce the law, however what if there is a certain law that is just blasphemy.

If the drinking age was lowered, it would give people time to learn how to drink responsibly, to know when enough is enough. About a year ago, I went to France for one month. I remember going into pubs and seeing many teens, between the ages of 14-17 enjoying a glass of beer, and guess what? I didn’t see one that was passed out on the ground.

They all drank maturely, which is different from what people normally would see in the US. People on their 21st birthday go ballistic, because they can finally drink legally. Why must people go through that kind of torture? I’m not necessarily saying drinking is the most important thing. The thought however, of having a bottle of beer without having to worry about a person of higher authority ruining somebody’s casual relaxation and fun, is rather nice.

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Jacky Mensch, Curvy College COED’s.

May 3, 2010 By Duncan Moron 1 Comment

It is official. I have finally decided what I want to do with my life. I want to go back to college. No, not to learn damn it. I just want to hang out in classes that Jacky Mensch is taking. How hard is it to get accepted to Virginia Tech by the way? Is it a tough University? I am serious. I never did that well in school, so maybe the second time I will be more apt to focus on….. Well, I guess if my reason for going back can be counted on two fingers then I might still have issues academically. How can a guy be expected to concentrate while somebody like Jacky Mensch is sitting in the next chair.

It just doesn’t seem fair now does it? I wonder why professors don’t give some kind of sliding scale to all the males attending school, who have to sit by these beautiful women. I realize it isn’t the girls fault. We can’t blame them, but it doesn’t change the fact that they are smoking hot. Now the first time around in my collegiate career, I was either too drunk or, well, let’s just say altered, to focus on the girls anyway. This time around I would be much more sober. Most of the time anyway. Damn, maybe I should just skip the whole idea and focus on her pictures. Jacky, keep posting the photos please. I am begging you.

I should try and concentrate on exercising if I was smart. At my age I am getting soft, round, plump and growing in places that just don’t seem physically normal. Now I find out that I am more apt to get beaten up as well. According to an article in US News and World Reports the larger you are, the more likely it is that somebody will pick on you. Granted they are focusing on adolescents, but some people never grow up. I know firsthand that some guys still sit around all day in bed, drink Scotch and watch porn.

Hah, you thought I was talking about myself. I don’t watch porn all day. Sadly I do drink scotch and lay in my bed until 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I keep telling myself that I am working but I think that isn’t going to fly very much longer. Isn’t there anyone out there in the world willing to pay me to do nothing? I am serious. I bet if you took a poll right this minute the majority of working America is on Facebook anyway. Why can’t I skip the part of driving into the office, stay in bed, play on Facebook and get paid. It would save me so much time.

Sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I really want to get up, I just can’t figure out a reason to do so. I guess getting another glass of Scotch is about the best answer I can come up with. That and filling out my application to Virginia Tech. Say hello to Jacky Mensch people.

Check out Duncan’s Diary: Birth of a Serial Killer on Amazon. It is a killer book.

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Testimony

April 1, 2010 By Duncan Moron Leave a Comment

“Testimony”, a book by Anita Shreve.

I want to give enough positives so you will be intrigued enough to read this book, but not set expectations so high that you will think it is fantastic. Not sure how to walk this balancing act. The story in “Testimony” is fantastic. If you think of the ripple affect you will have an idea where Anita Shreve is taking you. It is amazingly intertwined and gives a realistic depiction of how all of our lives are so delicately balanced. The delivery is distracting and cumbersome. Anita uses the first person for dozens of voices and she does an average job at best in delivering each one with their own personality.

“Testimony” is set in Vermont at a private school, Avery Academy, and takes you through the lives of the headmaster and several of the students. In the midst of this tranquil environment a sexual encounter occurs between several students and with the new age of the interne, it is broadcast to the public very quickly. Interestingly enough the children, who all go to the same school, are of varying ages. The girl is fourteen and the boys are eighteen and nineteen. While the law is very clear cut in this matter, reality is a little more obscure on when a child becomes an adult.

In the middle of this scandal there are various catalysts that all form a triangle leading to the destruction of many lives and in some cases even death. The public finger pointing, the presses relentless pursuit of a story and the fumbled attempts to keep things quiet all play a part in escalating the event beyond a mere night of sexual exploration. What if, what if, what if, can be asked hundreds of times, but always in reflection. Sadly the events have already occurred.

I loved the story, enjoyed the book and would recommend it to all teenagers as a must read, and to most adults as well. The delivery Anita chose is very distracting. She made a valiant attempt at delivering each characters perspective but you do get lost at times in the first person perspective coming at you from so many different angles. Toward the end of the book she even introduces a cafeteria worker and her perspective on preparing meals which seemed completely unnecessary. It took you away from focusing on the story and the characters she has so brilliantly crafted.

So in a nutshell, the book is definitely worth reading. You will enjoy it immensely, just be prepared to trudge through some obscurity as you jump from one person telling the story to another. I think Anita was actually trying to enlighten the reader by choosing this unique style but I fear it had the opposite effect. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and absolutely loved the story.

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Mindi Stoots is Min Delicious

February 8, 2010 By Duncan Moron Leave a Comment

What if I suggested there was a beautiful woman who could transition from the sweet and innocent to the sultry and seductive in seconds. Someone who was all natural and touted her assets as perfection. Somebody who flaunted her backside as exquisitely proportioned and tantalizing to view. She was self confident and would provide you all the necessary items to push your thoughts beyond the brink of sanity. Not that women and sanity ever go hand in hand. I am beginning to think the craziness in life is indefinable and I will never understand the thought patterns of a woman.

Well gentlemen, I present Min Delicious. I believe we can call her Mindi Stoots as well but she does seem to be promoting Min Delicious as her stage name. I for one would have to agree. That range of 5’4″ and within 100 something pounds seems to be about as close to perfection as you might venture. I don’t always fully understand how some women pack that many curves in such tiny frames but I have learned not to question certain things. Damn, with most women I have found it is better not to question anything at all.

If you simply shake your head up and down and apologize no matter what the consequences then about 3 out of 10 times you won’t find yourself in trouble. The other 10 times you will simply shake your head wondering what in the hell they are talking about. It is almost as surprising as finding out that drinking a pop on occasion can cause pancreatic cancer. Does it make sense? Probably. At some point in time if your drink of choice is a brown man made syrup high in sugar the odds are that it will give you something to worry about.

According to a study done by the University of Minnesota your chances are pretty damn good of getting pancreatic cancer if you drink a couple of soft drinks a week. The interesting thing is the study was done on a bunch of Asian people. Am I the only one that finds it humorous that a bunch of college kids in the mountains are doing lab tests on Asians? Shouldn’t this be the other way around? I thought the mountain people were backwards and the Asian people were smart. I guess it just goes to show you that you can’t ever rely on stereotypes. As soon as you think you understand a woman she will run you over with her SUV while listening to Pink on the stereo.

Sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes it just make sense that Delicious things can be dangerous. Be careful what you drink and for God’s sake be careful of a woman as beautiful as Min Delicious. Just when you think it is safe to go back in the water you get bitten in half by that damn shark again and you have no idea what you did to provoke it. Keep an eye out for Mindi, she might just be worth looking for. I know I will.

Check out Duncan’s Diary: Birth of a Serial Killer on Amazon. It is a killer book.

You can find it on Kindle here Duncan’s Dairy on Kindle.

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Stephanie Claire, Smart and Sexy

December 31, 2009 By Duncan Moron 1 Comment

Stephanie Claire is a model and is attending college for a law degree. Who says that women can’t be both smart and sexy? Just for the record this is the Stephanie Claire who is a model. Not to be confused with the Stephanie Claire who is the artist. Not that I didn’t visit the artist website but the two are not the same. Makes you wonder what is in a name. At this point with billions of people navigating the world and identity theft proliferating our environment will we at some point all blend into one cultural grayness. Are we losing our historical uniqueness as we meld into one worldwide economy?

Damn, that seems to be a little much in a blog post about a model so let’s head back to greener pastures in the form of Stephanie. Again, the model not the artist, although the artist might have green pastures as well. I can’t really vouch for the pastures of either lady truth be told. I am not even a farmer so I would have no idea if their pastures were green and fertile or dried and brittle. I am a simple writer who is struggling to get the word out so if you need any further information about farming go visit a cowboy site or some such thing. Now what in the hell was I even talking about.

These young people are beginning to intimidate me with all of their abilities to excel in multi faceted endeavors. Stephanie will most likely be announcing at some point that she is releasing an album and starring in the next Broadway production of Cats. Did all of us old middle aged adults take hormones a few years back and empower the youth of today to a higher brain power. Not that it is a startling achievement to star in Cats but not having seen the musical I don’t want to disparage it inappropriately. Not that this has stopped me in the past but I would like to turn over a positive new leaf for the 2011 year. It will be 2011 next year right?

Damn, where has the time gone? As soon as I get back to the states I will have to do a blog post on the JournalStone.com accomplishments (0r lack there of) for the past year. I can really only do the past year because JournalStone.com has only been around for a little over 9 months. We are like a little baby in toy land. Just learning the ropes and finding our way out of diapers. I can only hope that we have the same level of steroids that Stephanie Claire has since she possess the smoking hot body that houses an intelligent brain. No offence to the artist Stephanie Claire. I don’t really know what her body looks like or her intelligence level.

Sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I worry about my ability to stay focused. I really need to learn to say no once in a while when they are having last call. You don’t need to always be the last one at the bar every night as it closes at 8 PM. Dude, I go to the old man’s bar. We have to be home in time to clean our teeth.

Check out Duncan’s Diary: Birth of a Serial Killer on Amazon. It is a killer book.

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Ordinary Girls in a Calendar equals, HUH?

December 24, 2009 By Duncan Moron Leave a Comment

We here on JournalStone.com are constantly talking about the positives of every day people. Well damn, maybe not all the time but we do on occasion agree with the concept of plus size models, realism in advertising and the oddity of the super thin airbrushed fascisms that are portrayed by every lingerie company. Those women are just not real. Now we have the luxury of seeing up front and close every day college girls in their own calendar. If you want to take a closer look and possible purchase one jump over to http://www.babesandboys.com/calendars.

The odd thing is I am now wondering why we want to see this on a calendar. I mean college girls are young and in better shape than the average middle aged woman. They are college girls. Set aside the freshman 15 and the odds are you can pick one at random and she will look a little tighter and better put together than somebody 15 years her senior. Now we are talking looks only everybody. Before the women of the world start to lynch me the same can be said for the aver college aged male. The younger you are the better you most likely look. So why in the hell do I want a calendar full of average looking young college girls?

If I am going the route of youth over experience, looks over substance, athleticism over depth why would I possibly want to pick an average girl? Why not go for the smoking hot ones and if they have a few flaws don’t we want to airbrush them out. I mean it is better for the models as well as the customers. Again, this is all assuming we are shallow and care about looks alone which any man would who is going for somebody twenty years old absolutely is. I think we might have missed our customer base on this one but that is just me.

If we are going to look at a real woman then I would go about 10 years older and let them show their stuff oh natural as Mother Nature intended. I myself prefer that route. I like a woman in her thirties who is smart, self confident and feels comfortable with who she is. We are not all perfect although I might be as close to the goal as any human has ever made it. Again, as long as this is my blog I will say whatever I damn well please. Not that I haven’t made a mistake or two but I am overall a pretty good catch. Ask, well you might not want to ask anyone but I will tell you if given the chance.

So while I like the thought I think we might want to raise the stakes next time and get real women, not girls on the cusp of womanhood. If we are going to go that young then get the damn hot ones because there is no need to waste my time on an average twenty year old. Most won’t talk to me anyway so I guess the opinion of a fat old man isn’t really going to get far. Shit, what was I talking about? Alzheimer’s is kicking in again.

Sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I love young women, sometimes I love middle aged women and sometimes I love old women but I always love my girlfriend. I am serious. Leave me alone, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

Check out Duncan’s Diary: Birth of a Serial Killer on Amazon. It is a killer book.

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Emma Watson in a bikini, isn’t she just 19?

November 30, 2009 By Duncan Moron Leave a Comment

I was at Thanksgiving with my girlfriend’s family and it was as crazy as you might imagine. If you haven’t read any of “My Life” blog posts take a look. You might find them amusing, boring or down right scary. I was being teased about my infatuation with Taylor Swift by my significant other as she so often does. I am sorry but the girl is smoking hot. I mean she sings she has that curly blonde hair and is there anyone on the planet as cute with a hint of innocence still intact. Not anyone that I know. So I am introduced as the new member to the family gang and low and behold there is a nineteen year old girl in the mix. Go figure.

Now since I am an old man this nineteen year old girl appeared to be just that. A girl. She was cute, bubbly and had that optimistic outlook on life. Damn, give her a few more years and she will be as jaded as the rest of us. She had just participated in a school protest a few days before over the hike in tuition. She goes to Berkley and it is a school requirement that all students participate in one protest before graduating. Having met her I now felt a little more perverted than I did a few days before. While I might continue thinking Taylor Swift is very cute it will be with a reserved fatherly feeling instead of that lustful dude type feeling.

Now that brings me to the focus of this post, Emma Watson. I don’t really get into these blog posts of here is so and so in a bikini. It seems that anyone who goes to the beach is photographed and everyone clamors over getting the pictures up as fast as possible. Who really cares? If I had a dollar for every post on some girl in a bikini on the beach I would be rich. At least the posts on JournalStone.com have some meaning. We attempt to fill in some content and make the photos we post have some sort of direction. Most of the time anyway.

Now Emma Watson is nineteen and these recent photos are floating around of her in a bikini. We have done several posts on Emma here on this site and on average we still get 50 to 70 views every single day just on Emma Watson. The world is in love with this girl. Too bad we are not all drummers in a boy band. I don’t think she would be interested in an out of shape old man who writes on his computer all day.

So here you go. Here are the pictures of Emma Watson in a biking for all of you sick puppies out there that can’t seem to get enough of her. I can only say enjoy them and just think a few short years ago she was in high school. Damn, freaks me out. I know that I won’t be ogling over her any time soon.

Sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you realize that you really are a perverted old man. Hugh Hefner fill in the black dude.

Thanks by the way to The Superficial for the pictures.

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Over 475 Smoking Hot College Girl Photos

November 19, 2009 By Duncan Moron Leave a Comment

I had heard of Campus Girls USA before. I think it was some American Idol contestant or something that was in one of their calendars way back when. I actually remember looking up her, I mean looking her up specifically and not seeing the website. Today I just happened to randomly come across the Campus Girls USA site and will have to admit to feeling inept at not having perused it previously. It will definitely be added to my favorites and I will make it a point of following it on Twitter from now on.

The site is simply made up of photos from smoking hot college girls across the United States. I am now kicking myself, asking why in the hell didn’t I come up with that concept. Start a website and simply ask girls to send in their photos and if they win they get to have more photos taken and placed on the website. For the record if any girl over the age of eighteen wants to send in a photo of yourself in your bikini or underwear or dressed as sparsely as you might like feel free. I will be happy to set you up on the site and do a blog post on you specifically. Assuming the pictures are smoking hot by the way.

I wonder how such a simple concept can be overlooked for so long. I have always wanted a JournalStone calendar but we just never had enough material. My guess is with our photographer Nancy Mueller coming around we might enlist her at some point. Still I like the concept of girls just sending in their photos. It isn’t like we can’t give everyone some publicity. JournalStone.com reaches a fairly wide audience at this point and it is growing daily.

So Campus Girl USA is having a contest for the hottest college girls across the USA. All you college girls out there have to do is send in you photo and you are entered. They currently have over 475 entries to date. I have only posted a select few girls from the Big 10. I am from Illinois so I am still a little partial to UofI. If you can’t get anywhere with that contest then please send in your photos to duncanmoron@journalstone.com. I am happy to take a look and see if there is anything we can do with them here as well.

Sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes I wake up in the morning and praise God that the internet was invented. Do we still have to thank Al Gore or has he finally realized it wasn’t all about him?