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April 26, 2012 By Carrie 1 Comment

I was out of reading material this past weekend – yes, I’m all caught up on my favorite author’s series! And, we’re still without Cable & a DVR. So reading is my evening escape – so I was browsing What Should I Read Next and Amazon for something that called out to me and stumbled across Ready Player One.

I’m in the middle of the book and have to say this is a great read! Being a teen from the 1980′s I have to say I’m loving all of the 80′s references and the overall concept of OASIS.

Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future–the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday’s fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline. -Chris Schluep

If you’re in need of something to read, this is a good one. check it out.

Filed Under: Entertainment Tagged With: Books, ernest cline, ready player one

April 19, 2012 By Carrie 3 Comments

So, I was sitting, watching TV last night, minding my own business when I saw a clip for Magic Mike.

I turned to my husband and said “definitely going to see this… with my girls!”

The film stars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey, and from their appearances in Beastly to True Blood I feel like most of these gentlemen are no stranger to taking their shirts off. In fact, one might argue that McConaughey is almost exclusively famous for not wearing a shirt. [via]

Tatum, 31, stars as the titular “magical” male stripper, a role that’s loosely based on Tatum’s real-life experience of exotic dancing in Tampa.

By night, Mike plays to the fantasies of his patrons, being the “husband they never had, the dreamboat guy that never came along.” But by day, he’s more interested in crafting and selling furniture – and perhaps falling in love with Paige, as played by Cody Horn. A stripper/entrepreneur, if you will.

So why does he strip? First of all, he’s making good money – although you don’t want to know what he has to do for a $20 – and there’s also “women…and a good time.”

Tatum has called his time spent as an exotic dancer “a wild and pivotal time” in his life, and it looks like some of that will be carried over to the film as well.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, “Magic Mike” also stars Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey and “True Blood’s” Joe Manganiello as “Big Dick Richie.” [via]

June 29th ladies!

June 29th.