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Home. Good and bad. Comfort and turbulence. Stability and volatility. Clarity and confusion.
The wide range of adjectives people use to describe their particular home life merely scratches the surface of just how massive and dynamic a topic this is. For many, home is a place of rest, a place where comfort and clarity reign. However, for countless others, home is a blend of strife and unrest. Read more
Fans of the Memphis Grizzlies have gotten spoiled quickly. We went from PLEASE MAKE THE PLAYOFFS to PLEASE WIN A PLAYOFF GAME to WIN A DAMN TITLE! I can’t say this process happened overnight, but it’s amazing how the darkness of the bad memories fades when the present potential seems so overwhelmingly bright.
At the moment, the Grizzlies are sitting 4th in the Western Conference at 22-10 despite playing the 7th toughest schedule so far. Overall the Grizz have won 35 of their last 48 games dating back to the end of March. So why change anything??? I’m glad you asked. Read more
While most of you idiots were watching the boring National Championship yesterday, I was guh-lued to my seat for this season’s premiere of The Bachelor. For everyone who is reading this simply so that I don’t disown you as a friend or future spouse, I’ll quickly fill you in (really, don’t watch the show, it’s terrible).
Happy 2013 Wise Guise Family! We hope the holidays treated you well and you, too, are excited for everything the new year always brings!
Like many years before this one, we’re immediately thrown into the dog days of the NBA season, postseason football, the Oscar movie season, and the return of many of our favorite TV shows. With the return of ABC’s dating reality show extravaganza this week, Liz Riggs will be returning with her hilarious weekly coverage for everyone, enjoyable for both fans of the show and those of us who don’t have a clue what’s going on.
A couple weeks ago we started a new series in which a new friend of The Wise Guise, Charlie Forrester, began unveiling his personal top 100 films. That list comes to a close today with Charlie’s Top 10. If you missed the start of the series, here are 11-25, 26-50, 51-75 and 76-100. For a refresher on Charlie’s criteria for selecting these films, check out his original post detailing numbers 76-100. Read more
Movie Review: Silver Linings Playbook. **** out of 4. Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and reintroducing Chris Tucker. Written and Directed by David O. Russell.
This is a busy time of year for everyone but as we all gather with our families many of us will be watching our favorite Christmas movies. I’ve decided to take a few minutes to share with you my top 12 Christmas movies. Let me know what you think I missed. Unless you think I missed A Christmas Story. Because I didn’t. And you deserve coal. My one real major internal debate was over whether I was allowed to put Die Hard on this list. I might lose sleep over not including it, but I’m just not sure it can count… Read more
THE RULES: A fantasy style draft, in which Joseph Williams and contributor Sutter Vaught will go back and forth for five rounds, selecting picks to create a roster of the ALL TIME GREATEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES.
For those of you who frequent The Wise Guise often, you know that I have published writings from younger versions of myself. As Clayton has commissioned me to write a series of Christmas posts, I thought it would be time once again to go to the archives. After my first Christmas post of 2012 yesterday, I thought it would be time to share with you some writings from 2006 Joseph, who was a sophomore in college at the time. My original plan was to edit the writings, make them better both in writing style and to better reflect the person I am today and the perspectives I’ve gained from graduating, teaching, and getting married and starting “adult” life. My goal was to make them less cheesy, less corny, and hopefully better. But that would have required work and I quickly realized it would have been a difficult venture. Whereas I feel Christmas time and Christmas joy are often about connecting with the pure of heart and the childlike wonder at both the birth of Christ and the magic of Christmas, I decided to publish the two Facebook notes as they were originally published and still sit deep within the Facebook archives. Ironically, these were my first attempts at blog-like writing and Clayton posted comments on both of them. It should have been a sign we were destined to blog together. So, without further ado, I present to you two Facebook notes I wrote about my love of Christmas back in the fall/winter of 2006. Unedited and as cheesy as they’ve ever been. Enjoy!
