Susan Hated Literature

• Russell Crowe - Jim Braddock
• Renée Zellweger - Mae Braddock
• Paul Giamatti - Joe Gould

Based on the true story of James J Braddock. A boxing film. Set during the Depression. Consider all of these things and you may be thinking that this is a sentimental boxer-overcoming-hardship film, and, in a way you’d be right. But Cinderella Man is much, much more than that.

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As you are, of course, aware I was offline for a few days there while I was in Sligeach^[1] and just before I left I came across a podcast called The Signal. You may, or may not know, that that refers to the Serenity tagline, you can’t stop the signal. Anways, I’d never listened to a podcast before, and wasn’t going to bother with this either. Seemed kinda weird to just listen to people while on the internet. But then I noticed that they had interviews with Adam Baldwin, Gina Torres and Ron Glass among others, so I figured I’d download a couple of shows and listen while I was on the train. I could always switch off if it was crap.

Glad to report that it wasn’t. I really really enjoyed it. And I ended up listening to all their episodes on the train journey up and back, plus I finished off number nine yesterday while shopping. And today I found that number 10 is out. So if you like Firefly you might be interested in checking The Signal out.

You’ll have noticed I mentioned shopping, well I bought some clothes, but that is boring cause they are for work. But the interesting purchases were DVDs. Got some vouchers as a leaving present from my last job so splashed out yesterday and bought

• Ladyhawke
• Friday Night Lights
• Open Water
• The Princess Bride
• Dodgeball
• Gladiator (the new three disc edition to replace my vid-jo copy)

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