Helping Conway, SC Tell Its Story

This week, Ken and Eddie review the surprisingly funny Dictator and the formula ridden Battleship.

The Dictator

I'm not normally a fan of Sasha Baron Cohen's work but this time he's hit a good balance between poor taste and funny. His usual gross out style is reduced in this effort and replaced with--can it be--intelligence.

Local favorites Southern Blue rocked downtown Conway to cap the Arts and Music Festival. Fans from 1 to 85 rocked, rolled and got funky with some good ole rythm and blues...

The Arts and Music Festival avoided bad weather in the area and attendees were treated to artist and other vendors on a seasonable warm spring day. Politics blended with produce blended with hand made crafts to the sounds of live music. Here are some shots of the event...

Conway SC...Today is the Arts and Music Festival in downtown Conway. Festivities will last into the evening hours with art, music and a car show at Palmetto Chevrolet and down Laurel Street.

Check out these pics of the motorized dream rides...

The Avengers debuted at 12:01 am Friday to an excited crowd at Franks Theater in Conway. Folks from throughout the county made the late night trip to be the first to see the new Marvel epic.

Even the Justice League was in attendance

The Conway City Council is considering, rather seriously, a Citywide ban on smoking. A ban that, I might add, goes far beyond the parameters of just city property and technical jurisdiction. But extends into the private businesses of the City of Conway. Yes, if you own a business in Conway and the ban is passed, the City, NOT YOU, will decide and enforce through penalty of fines to business owners, whether smoking is allowed in or around your place of business.   

I am not a smoker and this commentary does not come from one who will miss anything if smoking is banned in Conway.  I detest smoking, but if an individual is willing to accept the known risk of a legal substance, then it is their right to do so. NO government should abuse their authority and tell them otherwise.

Luther’s Movie Review- Pirates, Band of Misfits

Imagine if Shrek was boring, not funny, slow and generally bad, then it would be called Pirates, Band of Misfits. I saw this film with an audience of several families. I nodded, but managed to mostly stay awake. Some of the kids were playing in the theater and no body tried to call them down, because they were more interesting than the movie.

Yep, I was bored, the kids were bored and the parents were bored. See a pattern yet? This film is from the same folks who made the very entertaining Chicken Run, so maybe this is the sophomore jinx. The CGI is very good, the 3D is not overwhelming, but the plot, characters and dialogue are bad or worse. Oh yeah, they actually kill people in this movie. Not a suggested off screen killing, but a “for no good reason” actual stabbing and dying on screen murder. For a show aimed at

South Carolina Woman Magazine featured local women bloggers in their May issue (on sale now) and mentioned the Black Water Honey!

A big thank you to them and for all they do by showcasing the women of South Carolina. Other Blogs

The Magnolia's had the great pleasure of sitting down and talking with local artist JoJo Nichols about his debut album, his first single, and all that is coming up. His first single "Gone" opens up the show. He already has ardent fans in the magnolia camp who drool as he lets them in on who his influences are, his style and his hope for the future. Get a sneak peek of his song "When The Moon" at the end of the show. You don't want to miss this special episode!

If you like what you here, go check out JoJo's music available for download...

JoJo Music

Fetus, termination, Women's Rights, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life and abortion, we hear these “hot button” terms all the time in today's’ culture. We hear about different cases involving people from all walks of life. But 98% of the time, what we hear is only one side of the story.

Get ready to take whatever you thought you knew and whatever you felt about abortion and throw it out the window.  In The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers, she strips away all the red tape, hype, and bogus lit, and simply tells the story of a girl faced with a life changing decision.

The book is told through the main character, Dynah’s, point of view. As the story unfolds, she goes through a horrific rape and winds up pregnant by her assaulter. A devout Christian, Dynah is faced with the unthinkable decision, to carry a child conceived by rape or end an otherwise innocent life.

We watch as everything in Dynah’s world crashes down around her. The reader’s senses whirl as River’s takes them on a gut-wrenching journey of Dynah as she forges through everything to find grace in the darkest of times….

This episode starts with Ken and Eddie reviewing Think Like a Man but morphs into Ken and special guest Abbi Jordan (producer for The Steel Magnolias of UCLA) exchanging barbs over Lucky One. While Abbi is on a roll, she sits in for the rest of the show.

1.       Make decisions and stick by them. Before you rush off and start talking about “papers”, make sure that it is 100% over.

2.       Do Not try to force someone to come back- When it’s over, it’s over. Harassing someone is illegal.

3.       Do not run your mouth. You should have a small group of people to lean on (like 3 or 4) and your lawyer. That is it. Remember, discretion is often the better part of valor. The less you say, the less that can be misinterpreted or used against you.

Every year about this time, certain species of birds take to banging on our windows.  The two most common culprits are cardinals and robins. The robins are the dirtiest and the cardinals are the loudest.
 
Same old thing this year.  The pecking on one of our big windows began in late February and when my wife threatened to take out the shotgun, I decided to try a couple of milder remedies. I had an old owl garden sculpture in the tool-shed, so I hauled it out and sat it next to the window.  Birds are said to be afraid of owls, but my nemesis, a very red cardinal, wasn’t impressed by a plaster owl and went right on pecking.  Next, I went to Toys-R-Us and bought a four foot long rubber rattlesnake.  Birds are supposed to be afraid of snakes too, but my cardinal all but ignored the snake on the grass under the window.  So, I taped it right on the window to look as if it were climbing up the building.  That worked for about half-an-hour, but soon the cardinal was right back, slamming into the window next to the snake.  
 

One Controversy Down, One to Go

Now that the Great Yarn Bombing Granny Rebellion seems settled, let’s not forget the other controversial topic on city council’s plate. The council is going to discuss the proposed City of Conway smoking ban at the workshop section of Monday’s meeting.

While the standoff between the city government and the grannies was quite entertaining, the proposed smoking ban possesses much more serious overtones for citizens of Conway…property rights. Where do you draw the line between where you control your life and property and where you give that control over to a governmental bureaucracy?  

The granny’s are at war with the City of Conway. OK, I get it. Sometimes when dealing with the city—it is a bureaucracy after all—it is easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission. Such is the case with the current fluff over yarn bombing.

It seems a group called the…well, they don’t really have a name, I’ll just call them the Granny Yarn Patrol, hand knitted decorative sock thingy’s to dress up a light pole and a tree on Laurel Street. These have been up for several months.