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BenSpark.com is about my life through photography. Each image is a gateway to a story about my daily life. Occasionally funny, inspiring, interesting or creative BenSpark.com is real life in photos. With over 4200 consecutive days and many different cameras BenSpark.com has documented images from the mundane to the amazing.

Little Miss Sunshine

Last night Allison and I watched Little Miss Sunshine with Tara and Erik. What a good movie. I wasn’t sure what to expect but I found it touching, tragic and fantastic all at once. We had some chicken soup, that Tara made, for dinner. It was delicious. Then we settled down to watch the movie. I loved the whole family and the outrageousness of their issues as well as the mundaneness of their lives. They were a real set of people with real problems and the frankness with which they talked about their problems was touching and tragic at the same time. I loved Alan Arkin as the grandfather. He just tends to make each movie better. I don’t want to give anything away because I think that knowing as little about this movie as possible before seeing it makes it so wonderful. The actors were fantastic and so fitting. I was really happy to have seen this movie. I’m rooting for it in the Oscars now.

Must be nice

It must be nice to go to a great school like Tufts and get to participate in a course about LOST. Yep, it is true there is a 13 week course about everyone’s favorite stranded airplane survivors. I read about this on Pop Candy. The entire course syllabus is online and many of the articles that are required reading can also be found online. I may just look into reading the syllabus for the heck of it and get to know LOST a little better. On Whitney’s latest podcast she talks with the guys who pitched the idea to the university and got it approved. I won’t get that podcast till I return home.