The Lake House is a romantic drama with a time paradox twist. Through a mysterious mailbox and enigmatic dog Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) and Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves) have a long distance relationship. In this case, though, the distance is in time, two years to be exact, not space. Both of them live in the same lake house but their time there is offset by two years. They communicate to each other by writing letters and leaving them in the mailbox. Somehow this mailbox is able to transport the letter back and forward in time. As they communicate the two fall deeply in love with each other. Their mutual love and forced separation allows each of them to resolve their own relationship issues. And then there's the constant suspense of wondering if they will ever get together.

The third installment in the X-Men movies was disappointing. Not because it was a lousy movie but because it didn't live up to the expectations set by the first two. Something was missing in the movie making. There were certainly plenty of special effects. In fact, there were too many special effects. How many flying cars do we need to see blasted into a huge fireball? I think that the movie makers where relying a bit too much on the effects to make the movie leaving the plot and characters to suffer.

Here's another cafepress design based on a street sign (as if you couldn't figure that out). You can buy it here. So what's the point of this one? Well, let's say your friend has been bugging you to get out and meet some people. You just got dumped by your boyfriend and you're just totally not interested in meeting anyone. You'd rather sit in your room and pout all night. But your friend insists. Since you're not in the mood to meet anyone you could wear this shirt to let all approaching prospects know that you are a "dead end". No sense in asking you out cause you'll just say "no". Or...

How can you get any more patriotic than this? It is my latest design for cafepress merchandise. For those that don't know, cafepress is a service that let's me create designs and then they put them on all kinds of stuff including clothing (t-shirts, jackets, hats), mugs, toys, mousepads, etc. My latest cafepress design is this 4th of July graphic. My shop on cafepress (here) has many different clothing options with this design on it. My favorites are the BBQ apron, the baby's bib, and the infant onesy outfit.

Late yesterday afternoon a dust storm descended on the peaceful city of Phoenix Arizona. These kind of storms seem to occur once every year or so. A photographer at the Arizona Republic got a great picture of this storm approaching. I thought it was pretty cool so I posted it here on the site. Click on "Read More..." to see a larger picture. The building with a domed roof is Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark), home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

L. B. Graham's third book in The Binding Of The Blade series, Shadow In The Deep is his best to date. The series is set in a Tolkien-like world at a time when the evil power, Malek, has begun a massive invasion to try to take over the world. Graham's strength in these books is his ability to create a rich and engaging world that is vast in scope while developing real and exciting characters.