Movie Review - Inception

Following the plot on this movie is like peering inside an intricate old watch while riding a rollercoaster. The story is well told, and it was a lot of fun.

It is a caper film, with the Leonardo DiCaprio leading the team of dream bandits, where the caper is usually to break into someone's dreams and steal their (highly valuable) secrets. The whole exercise is really like a burglary and con game all rolled into one, which takes place in a landscape limited only by the imagination.

The first Christopher Nolan film I saw was Memento. I thought the plot device for telling the story backwards through the eyes of the ultimate unreliable narrator, a man who can't make any new memories. This is a problem when the last thing he DOES remember is his wife's murder. He is obsessed with finding the killer. Any time he discovers a clue he has it tattooed on himself. It starts with the last clue, and kind of unwinds until he discovers the first.

Inception requires the same sort of mental gymnastics to follow the plot, but with a double shot of adrenalin thrown in for good measure.

Poorly behaved guests

Seems like poor form to steal and vandalize from the classroom your county political meeting is using.

And the cause of the gulf oil rig explosion

Could it be...


... Halliburton?

Link of the day

Interesting abandoned places.

Drill Baby Drill

The surface area of the gulf oil spill has tripled.

Oklahoma legalizes doctors lying to patients

Check out the latest from Oklahoma, the land that gave us Senator Dr. Tom Coburn.

Connect The Dots

The U.S.Mine Safety & Health Administration evacuates three mines, citing anonymous tips of safety violations.

The Massey Energy Co. response? Fire 8 miners.

The message is quite clear: If you call and report a safety violation, some miner will lose their job.

Tomorrow's shooting match

This is the first of six stages in tomorrow's match by the Orygun Cowboys.

A FB conversation about that song stuck in your head

Zebra

Today's shoot

Vegan Gangs of Portland

They give the term "Big Mac Attack" new meaning.

Dan Takes A Solo

Armadillo

Big Spring Falls

Scorpion

Portland's Holiday Express

Bearded Dragon

Scenic Cruise

Trains Only

From last night's shoot