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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Welcome Back to the Shire Friday Edition

Jimmie | April 15, 2011 | Comments (0)

Peter Jackson is one of my favorite directors. He makes movies I truly enjoy and I consider him a careful and diligent craftsman. The Frighteners is one of the most underrated suspense movies of the past twenty years and, well, I can’t pile enough superlatives on how he handled The Lord of the Rings.

As part of his production of The Hobbit, he’s started a video blog on Facebook to give fans a few heaping helpings of sneak peeks at the sets and some of the early work. Take a look. Hopefully more good directors will do the same when they film their movies.

And now, links!

This video on how the Japan Tsunami happened is long, but worth it.
Victor Davis Hanson really wants to know what’s going on in Barack Obama’s head.
Here is a blistering review of Barack Obama’s budget attack speech from Pat Austin.
Jim Pethokoukis has found the gaping hole in the President’s budget “plan”.
Wisconsin school teachers are about to get a very expensive surprise from their union.
Keven Eder has a tax-related challenge for any Democrat willing to take it up.
At last, the real reason Transformers 2 was such a noxious pile of movie dung.
I’ve gotten used to seeing some odd things pop up in my RSS reader, but I was genuinely surprised to see a profile of Shirley Jackson show up today. I recommend it highly to you, especially if you enjoyed The Lottery or The Haunting of Hill House. Jackson was an interesting author.