• The Wages of Fear (1953) – film review

    “Le salaire de la peur” This is a great film, yet it has a fatal flaw in my view. Mario, played by Yves Montand, and his close friend Jo (Charles Vanel), and others are tasked with transporting nitroglycerin (which is very unstable) to a far off site where it’s needed. The plot is simple and…

  • China's Heart

    steaming hotpotperfumes the airgleaming summer’s sun countryside lifeearthy and nobleunchanged by time daily rhythmsa people linkeda proud culture kids playinnocence of youththeir parents dream new societyglobalized and homogenizedwhat is lost? generations leapthe Cultural RevolutionFacebook and Twitter fish swimthe Yangtze riverstrong and dynamic return youthto the fieldsof amber wheat find joyin simple pleasureslaughter and song a…

  • formspring.me

    Ask me anything which is not profane, heretical, sexual, crude, lewd or rude. http://formspring.me/netrek

  • "2012: Ice Age" (2011) – film review

    This movie is a disaster! The acting is so bad I often laughed out loud at the delivery. I could write better dialogue when I was in 9th grade! The plot is very implausible and the premise is ridiculous. One would have to be wholly ignorant of science to not be incredulous. First of all…

  • Boycott NBC – removed "under God" from Pledge of Allegiance

    During the recent U.S. Open broadcast this past Sunday, in the beginning of coverage NBC Sports division blatantly removed the words “under God” twice from the pledge of allegiance! As a Christian I am outraged by this slight. How dare they do this. And the lukewarm apology which was issued was very weak. Who is…

  • A case against Obama

    By every single metric people are worse off and suffering more now under Obama than they did under Bush. The only one’s who are actually doing better are the hyper rich. Obama took trillions in stimulus and bailout money and gave it to his Wall Street banker buddies who turned around and either invested it…

  • Rude NYU grad student – Hermon Raju

    Hermon Raju – obnoxious train passenger! In this video, here’s an archived copy, we see an Indian woman, Hermon Raju, get into an angry altercation with a train conductor. Ms. Raju boarded a Metro North train in Westport, Connecticut heading to New York. She was talking very loud on her cellphone and using profanity, passengers…

  • Review – Body of Lies

    Review of the film Body of Lies (2008) – directed by Ridley Scott This film didn’t surprise me since I already saw Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven” which was the “Pearl Harbor” (Michael Bay) of Crusader history. The reviewer who says Scott gives fair treatment of both sides must not be familiar with his work. “Kingdom…

  • Racial stupidity

    This drives me crazy. I’ve noticed this a popular trend in Hollywood, sports and politics where a mixed-race individual chooses to identify solely with the black aspect of their racial makeup. All parts of one’s racial makeup should be equally important. Race is not a matter of personal preference it is genetics! If your biological…

  • My new poem

    “Dissociative Event” Phase transitionConsciousness shifting Higher dimensionalFog lifting Pure energySynaptic liberation Perception expandsHigher excitation Ontological freedomOmnipresent thought Time redefinedConnections sought Awareness expandsDarkness flee A momentFor me – by Zachary Uram (c) 2011