Posted by: Angela
on Oct 9, 2009
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It’s been 5 years since Ezra Lusk hung up his racing boots and turned his passion of racing dirt bikes into retirement life with lots of family time and tennis. This past weekend at the US Open of Supercross in Las Vegas Nevada, Ezra strapped back on his racing boots, jumped on the 450 and took to the track to see what could happen. I chatted with Ezra in the pits and we talked racing and life; I was surprised to hear what he had to say.
Posted by: offroadtoday
on Oct 6, 2009
Wow what a weekend of racing all around the world. If you are a racing junkie like myself then you got a full dose of one of the most addicting substances ever.......racing. Obviously here at supercross.com there is a dirt spin to things, but like many others there is still plenty of racing going on and a few championships to be decided. Over in Europe the MotoGP season is heading into there last few races and the WSBK championship heads into it's final round. So if you are a dirt fan and don't watch either of these, set the DVR and check them out.
Posted by: ferOwnby
on Oct 4, 2009
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'Twas a Saturday night when me and my cousins were still so awake we have been thinking of a salient thing to do. We were done with making a hotcake and some fresh juice. I opened a clover chip and we were just so tired of talking all day. Dana suggested we watch a movie. I look through my old film collections. I was thinking of making them watch Dead Poets Society, but then I know this would not be of interest to them yet. I asked if they know movies of Adam Sandler, and they were beaming with enthusiasm. Who doesn't know him anyway? Though we have a lot of papers to do, we just thought of reading some of the sample custom written papers after a movie break.
Since were all ladies, we all identified more on the persona of Flor (Paz Vega) who seems to be a feminist, or at least an strongly willed woman, who always stand by her principles in life. She has a child to raise, so from Mexico she and her charming daughter, Christina (Shelbie Bruce) moved to LA to work a house helper. This is Flor's way to send her pre-teen daughter to school. Though barely speaking Spanish, Flor braved the odds and still went on doing her work despite having a self-absorbed boss (the wife of Sandler). What we all loved about Flor's character is that she outshadowed Deborah (the wife) even though the latter seemed to have everything in life. Flor's grace, honesty, and compassion was so admirable that even Adam fell for her. In the end, Flor, although feeling deeply for Adam,too, did what is morally right, at least to Mexican culture, and left the family—taking Christina with her.
We, the viewers, were fascinated by Flor's struggle to learn English—and practically her own struggle to still preserve her values despite being mixed with the very modern American cultrum. The social spectrum in the story was diversed that the viewers will surely be glad to stay viewing till the end. We could not stop ourselves from discussing wether Flor did the right choice. As for me, she did. She really sacrificed a lot, even her own happiness, to not ruin a family that is yet to be solid. In the end, she earned great respect from Christina who the story's narrator. Christina was writing this story of her mother for an essay papers exam in a school. A good vehicle, using a point-of-view outside the major leads used by its writer-director James L. Brooks.
A must-recommend to everyone!
