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There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth this past week about the latest antics of President Donald Trump.  The East Wing of the White House has been effectively destroyed, to make way for a new ball room.

Here’s the way the White House complex looked prior to the demolition of the East Wing:

The East Wing only dates back to the 1940s.  It really hasn’t done too terribly much, to be honest.  It’s become more or less the province of the first lady, though that’s never been a designated official capacity.  The East Wing can’t honestly be said to be part of the truly historic and traditional White House grounds.  And the White House has never been a static location anyway.  It’s been added to, remodeled and renovated almost since its beginnings more than two centuries ago.  America has grown and evolved (ideally for the better) and the ...

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It was this afternoon and my retinas are still exhausted!! Between Michael Bay’s signature ‘splosions and blowing stuff up real good and all those pretty pixels from Industrial Light and Magic, magnified to ginormous proportions (not to mention the gigawatts of sound coming at ya) it was quite the Transformers experience! I’ll recommend seeing it at least once in IMAX 3D as it was certainly worth driving to Durham to catch it there (along with lifelong best friend Chad, who after seeing it agreed with what I wrote in my original review a few days ago that this was a better Transformers movie than the first one!

Now, if we can only get a fourth Transformers flick. I’m still hoping to see Unicron depicted in the live-action series (and the more I think about it the more I’m liking the idea of Morgan Freeman voicing the Dark God and Devourer ...

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The 10 p.m. show was sold out at the Wachovia IMAX in Raleigh. Thank goodness for Fandango!

And you still have a week to catch it in its limited IMAX run. However it is that you see Star Trek (click here for my review) I’ll definitely recommend watching it in a theater with others. The crowd was just as enthusiastic about Star Trek yesterday evening as they were on opening night a little over a week ago and we found ourselves catching stuff that we didn’t notice the first time around....

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So the past 72 hours here have been… interesting. I’ll be able to talk about it more in the next couple of days. Just wanna say for the record though, that I’ve been a busy dude toward the end of this past week. And I’m about to head out to create some more mischief.

But before I do, I wanna do a bit of a write-up about what happened yesterday, ‘cuz it was full of some cool stuff that you’ve probably still got time to check out if you like.

Yesterday morning, my sister Anita arrived around 9:30. Lisa got in Anita’s RAV4 and I followed in my new Camry and we headed out to Raleigh, to see The Polar Express in 3-D on the IMAX screen there (or as I call it, “The Big-Ass Screen”).

This was something that Lisa had been wanting to see especially, so I got ...

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Yesterday was the premiere of Transformers in the IMAX format. The allure of watching the Autobots and Decepticons hash it out on what I call “the big-a$$ screen” was too much to pass up, so on Tuesday Lisa and I ordered our tickets for last night’s 7 p.m. show at the IMAX Theater at Exploris in downtown Raleigh.

But this really is the kind of thing best shared with friends too. So Chad Austin also got him a ticket and we got in touch with Eric Wilson, a really good friend of ours who I hadn’t seen in like 15 years. He drove a few hours to Raleigh and we all hooked up at Chad’s place about 5 minutes from the Exploris. After a quick bite at the Armadillo Grill, we headed over to the theater.

The best part of going to see Transformers last night, without a ...

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Look! It’s the poster for Transformers in IMAX!

And lookie here, courtesy of Amazon.com: the track listing for the Steve Jablonsky score CD!

1. Autobots
2. Decepticons
3. All Spark
4. Deciphering the Signal
5. Frenzy
6. Optimus
7. Bumblebee
8. Soccent Attack
9. Sam at the Lake
10. Skorpinok
11. Cybertron
12. Arrival to Earth
13. Whitwicky
14. Downtown Battle
15. Sector 7
16. Bumblebee Captured
17. You’re a Soldier Now
18. Sam on the Roof
19. Optimus vs. Megatron
20. No Sacrifice, No Victory

Seems pretty loaded, with twenty tracks and all....

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Yesterday, Lisa and I had a fun lil’ trip to Raleigh, where we went to the IMAX Theater at the Exploris Museum to catch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in IMAX. This was the second time that we’d seen the movie and the third time that I’ve seen a feature film in IMAX: click here for my report from seeing Superman Returns at the same theater a year ago.

The first time that I saw the movie of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I said that I had liked it but that I hadn’t been completely satisfied with the movie. At the time I was right in the middle of the book, trying to finish re-reading the entire series before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out. This is still the densest novel in the entire series and there’s no way ...

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