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25539 | Video Rental Stores | We have Family Videos here in Springfield, Mo that rent movies and games. I normally don't rent from them I usually just buy since they have some great deals. Also our Vintage Stock rents out movies as well.<br> | Poshy2005 | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25538 | Halloween Article Contest 2015 | <span style="font-size: 10pt;">And now... the winners!!!!!!! Yes, there are three runner ups this year. As there should be... there were way too many great entries!</span><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The runner-ups will each receive a $50 Amazon Digital Gift Card that can be used to "liven up" their Halloweens!<br></span><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Straight from the judge herself:</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;">Hi Tony,</span><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66472" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66419" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;">OK - here we go. The last two entries were in a whole different category than the first bunch you sent - they were "story" stories, where many of the others were essays. They were both very good, so I picked one of those as the winner. I've also given you three runner-ups, rather than two. I really couldn't decide. "Unmasked" is in there because of its emotional truth, and "I was born in love with Halloween" because of the clear power it had - short and to the point. "Autumn people" I couldn't say no to because it was different from all the other entries, and quite evocative.</span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66476" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;">There were actually many stories that I considered as good as those in the top four, and I think you could say that my final choices reflect personal taste rather than the writer's expertise. Where there were similar-themed stories (e.g. a middle-schooler's last trick or treat, or a child's memory of Halloween), I chose one, meaning several of those were good enough to have made it into the top four, but I could only pick one. I really considered one of the movie summaries because it dug a little deeper, but in the end, the fiction won.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66477" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Thanks so much for asking me to be a part of this. Here you go:</span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66478" style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66480" style="font-style: normal;"><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66479" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.retro-2Ddaze.org_site_article_id_797&d=BQMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=oN-0ljr53k5Ik8digIDsoG8lz0ibqTjF7zLg-8OQWZ8&m=N4c7dmgnCvOW2-AG1MQ9cgfyafobtIZCtegPaMNfkwg&s=wpSYe3aqKVqL78SH0BcfWyf1TPH5P3YCxI4bCRvc_yM&e=" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 106, 212); outline: none; background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">http://www.retro-daze.org/site/article/id/797</span></a><u><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span></u></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 13pt;">1</span><sup style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';">st</sup><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 13pt;">Fright Night – a Retro Narrative</span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66482" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66481" style="font-size: 13pt;">This well-put-together story of romantic revenge taken on the last trick-or-treating night of an eight grader’s life is full of realism and colorful detail. It has the breathless narrative speed that reminded me of the Halloween Tree, and the vivid sensory descriptors put the reader</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">right in the cornfield, at the dance, in school with the main character.</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66483" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66483" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4">Runners-up:</font></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66499" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66499" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__retro-2Ddaze.org_site_article_id_792&d=BQMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=oN-0ljr53k5Ik8digIDsoG8lz0ibqTjF7zLg-8OQWZ8&m=WcmljRP9wiSZ6tPSxV2yQH1v8qm2Yqmwrt0cc4HT304&s=dvUu0XzPanSpYNOGdcieBk9SSQCt40ZtGS3VuA0XwTo&e=" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 106, 212); outline: none; background: transparent;">http://retro-daze.org/site/article/id/792</a><u>: </u></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66498" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 13pt;">I was born in love with Halloween</span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66485" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66484" style="font-size: 13pt;">I did love this touching and brave piece, not just for its emotional power, but because it was crisply shaped and evocative.</span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66486" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66488" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__retro-2Ddaze.org_site_article_id_759&d=BQMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=oN-0ljr53k5Ik8digIDsoG8lz0ibqTjF7zLg-8OQWZ8&m=WcmljRP9wiSZ6tPSxV2yQH1v8qm2Yqmwrt0cc4HT304&s=WxAy951o_Q0KYLzhDlEwKwjCpKYfEMJKxxEnHT7DtQ4&e=" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 106, 212); outline: none; background: transparent;">http://retro-daze.org/site/article/id/759</a></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66487" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 13pt;">: The coming of the Autumn people</span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66497" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66496" style="font-size: 13pt;">A ghost tale that nudges you down Halloween-y streets and back into the shadows, I enjoyed the poetic tone intercut with literary excerpts.</span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66489" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66490" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__retro-2Ddaze.org_site_article_id_737&d=BQMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=oN-0ljr53k5Ik8digIDsoG8lz0ibqTjF7zLg-8OQWZ8&m=WcmljRP9wiSZ6tPSxV2yQH1v8qm2Yqmwrt0cc4HT304&s=bz8eyssdomFkx_xEWgK0ODjfwgZejn4c04dGRZzkbMo&e=" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 106, 212); outline: none; background: transparent;">http://retro-daze.org/site/article/id/737</a><u>: </u></span><span style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 13pt;">Unmasked</span></p><p class="yiv1774369518MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66492" style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445442264355_66491" style="font-size: 13pt;">The dialogue and truth of this story about an old crank and a tender 12-year-old was a good slice of realism, full of both the joy and the emotional complexity that Halloween can bring.</span></p><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;">Congratulations to vkimo, NLogan, kidcoffee, and AngelOtter for their victories this year! </div></div></div></div> | Vaporman87 | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25537 | Video Rental Stores | Aw, that's nice.<br> | shakin steak | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25536 | Last Movie You Watched | Back to the Future III<div>4/5</div><div>Well I couldn't leave off on a cliff hanger after watching Back to the Future II.</div> | kidcoffee | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25535 | Back to the Future | I know what I'll be watching later tonight. Thanks, Vaporman87. | kidcoffee | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25534 | Last Movie You Watched | Back In Time (2015)<div><br></div><div>The best documentary there is on the Back To The Future trilogy. Very well done and worth the watch.</div><div><br></div><div>3.75/5</div> | Vaporman87 | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25533 | Video Rental Stores | <blockquote rel="shakin steak"><b>shakin steak wrote :</b><i><br> <blockquote rel="Vaporman87"><b>Vaporman87 wrote :</b><br><i><br>However, our department store here in R-town rents DVDs, and actually has quite a lot of them... including new releases. <br> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>Not Redbox?<br> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>Nope. Just lots of shelves with cases sitting on them, dressed with numbers to match them up to the actual discs kept behind the counter.<div><br></div><div>They even have a "rewards" program of sorts where if you rent 9 movies, you get the 10th free (you have to keep the little pink slips of paper and "cash them in" for the free rental.</div> | Vaporman87 | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25532 | Album Covers | <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Jackson-Living.jpg"> | Jrs1991 | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25531 | Video Rental Stores | <img src="http://i.imgur.com/y4xMz.jpg"> <blockquote rel="Vaporman87"><b>Vaporman87 wrote :</b><br><i><br>However, our department store here in R-town rents DVDs, and actually has quite a lot of them... including new releases. <br> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>Not Redbox?<br><br>The last three times I have been in video stores it was for their going out of business sales. The first of those was in 2009. The last was last summer. I have had many obstacles myself since about 2007. Prior to that i was a regular and I wonder if I would have kept being one, if that hadn't been the case.<br><br><br> | shakin steak | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |
25530 | Video Rental Stores | A Blockbuster in 2011.<br><br>My friends and I had to avoid going back to another one due to outstanding late fees. One friend had borrowed three DVDs that we rented, and said he would return them. Then he dropped out of college, joined the Marines, and left the country. We only found out he never returned them 3 months later, and had to get into his apartment to retrieve them.<br> | Ajimbo | Oct 23, 2015 | ![]() |