The Five Worst Films of 2004
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1. Fahrenheit 9/11
Whenever facts interfered with the message, Michael Moore proceeded to change them; even to the point of rewriting headlines as he did with the local Bloomington, IL newspaper. When that was done in the book "1984" it was called newspeak. When Russia did it during the Cold War it was called propaganda. Moore even stole the title from a Ray Bradbury book.
2. Alexander
Oliver Stone was evidently sleeping when he learned about Alexander the Great in school and thought he was Alexander the Gay. Thanks for the history lesson, Oliver. Look for his next movie about Napoleon when we'll find out that he wasn't actually short, but had a life-long propensity for standing knee-deep in holes.
3. Super Size Me
In the first 20 minutes, we get to see the protagonist shove food down his pie-hole until he vomits, whereupon he blames the restaurant. I got the same feeling just watching this dreck.
4. Wicker Park
Six young narcissists fret and whine because others don't love them as much as they love themselves.
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
It proposes the theory that erasing bad memories will make one happy. They used to call them lobotomies and it didn't work any better back then.
6. Dishonorable Mention - Sideways
Two bachelors have a last adventure before the upcoming wedding of one of them. The groom cheats on his bride with two different women and the other guy is so despondent about his lousy book that he chugs wine from a wine-tasting spittoon. In San Francisco, these guys are considered role models. I don't think so.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.John 10:11-15

It snowed a little this past weekend. Actually it was about a foot, but it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. Several people from the Northeast states didn't make it back this morning. Probably from airport closings. I thought it was kind of funny when I went out Saturday morning. Some carpet installers had backed their van down the garage ramp. Because of the snow, they weren't able to get back up the 45 degree angle ramp with rear wheel drive. The van was also too tall to back into the garage thru the door. So basically, in order to save themselves the twenty feet walk down the ramp carrying the carpet, they spent two hours digging their van out. It looked like something Kramer and George might do on Seinfeld.