I work third shift, alone, so I have a lot to say and a lot of time in which to say it. Frustrated with both the lack of great blogs and the neverending search for readers for my own blog, I came here hoping to find both.

I'm an aspiring essayist and screenwriter, a karaoke queen, a single mother, a practicing heterosexual gay rights activist and a southern small town Democrat who digs cult movies as much as country music.

My passion is ...

pop culture

I know too much about ...

massage therapy

My parents always told me ...

all the other rednecks would one day be pumping my gas

My childhood ambition ...

to be just like all the other rednecks

My favorite memory ...

sitting in a field between two of my best friends at an Indigo Girls show, singing along

Why I write ...

because I have to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

books about horror films/my best friend's film debut/the local country station

My first job ...

the tannest lifeguard in town

My best moment ...

cheesy I know, but the first time my son smiled at me...and it wasn't gas!

My inspiration ...

Willie Nelson. He couldn't make it in the Nashville system so he created his own scene

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Little Miss Sunshine

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The quirky comedy of errors Little Miss Sunshine follows the Hoover family on a strange journey. The youngest member of the oddball clan, Olive (Abigail Breslin), has two days to get from her home in Albuquerque to a beauty pageant in California. Her mother Sheryl (Toni Collette) will of course take her excited daughter but cannot leave behind her own brother Frank (Steve Carell) who is on suicide watch following an attempt. In order to accommodate both of them, Sheryl has to drive the limping family Volkswagen bus, except it has a manual transmission which she can't operate. This leaves th...

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