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...pioneers. Backpackers move as a herd, not unlike the package tourists they try to avoid. The overcrowding and bottlenecks are at their worst in Asia, the destination of choice since Wheeler and his wife Maureen released the first Lonely Planet book, Across Asia on the Cheap, in 1973. A well-worn trail links beaches in Goa (India), Boracay (Philippines), Bali (Indonesia) and southern Thailand and the peaks of Yangshuo (China) and Kathmandu (Nepal). In such numbers, backpackers can't help but trample culture and nature, whatever their environmental beliefs. "They tend to be like sheep, all going to the same...
...where does that leave Greenspan? Likely, relieved - especially about consumer confidence, though that measure has been notoriously bad about predicting actual consumer behavior in this Spring of the Slowdown, when the measure has consistently pointed to spending levels far below what stalwart consumers have actually pulled out of their well-worn wallets...
...hilarious business of Shrek, a delightful new animated feature based on the William Steig book, to subvert all the well-worn expectations of its genre--to make us see, as the ogre does, how tiresome fairy-tale creatures and conventions have become. At the same time, Shrek suggests some smart, anachronistic spins for the collective unconscious...
...hand out the week's reward - which was neither food nor shelter but a half-hour "private chat" for Tina and her family. (And a $500 shopping spree, courtesy of the good folks at - well, I'm not telling. Take that, capitalist pigs.) Nothing like Internet-homesickness - set of course to a tinkling piano score - to make rugged survivalism cuter than a well-worn teddy bear. This is what we get for tuning in every week like Pavlovian dogs? Grown men crying...
...long. Ciaran Crawford as Frank may be the best actor of the bunch. Theres a natural honesty to his character that's one of the hardest things to pull off on stage. Nathaniel Gundy as Joe has the unfortunate task of playing the awkward teenager, one of the most well-worn roles in the history of theater and film. He fumbles initially, but by the time his second monologue comes around he's moved into his role with enough assurance to tell as good a story as you'll find in any pub around. Will these stories supplant the movies...