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Below is a quick list of cool stuff to do today because it is POURING!
1. Watch a movie; may we suggest The Book of Eli, it is amazing! Click here for movie times.
2. Go to the gym. e5 staff work out (about once a month) here.
3. Bowl, billiards and roller skating all in one place, here.
4. Stay home, snuggle under the covers and watch TV.
What are you doing to shrug off this wet weather?
2nd Annual Hurricane Film Festival in Seaside
Written by Dustin Bryson
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The surf scene has always been strong in Northwest Florida. It might go into hibernation once in awhile, but that's only because the water goes flat and all the surfers are locked in their cribs watching surf DVD's to survive. Thank God Seaside throws a gnarly shin dig every year (at least the last two) in the middle of the bitter cold so surfers don't have to jones
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Corams on 231 has seen it's fair share of characters, but the caliber of the one's who showed up Monday afternoon might be a whole new breed. They weren't your typical group, looking to slug down some coffee and get their fill of heavenly hash. These were characters in the truest sense of the word, they were actors.
Director, Cherie Saulter, had her film crew out at Corams to shoot one of the scenes from her first feature length film entitled "No Matter What". Cherie grew up in Chipley and graduated from Florida State Universities film school. She has produced 3 feature films and is adding director to her growing list of skills.
"The film centers around two young men who are trying to overcome the troubled situations they were born into by going on a road trip. The characters they come into contact with along the way help broaden their perspectives and their outlook on the world."
Saulter hopes to get the film into festivals followed by a distribution deal.
Find out more about the film at it's website www.StayGlorious.com
He doesn't wear a red suit, though his beard has more white hairs in it these days than it did once upon a time.
Count yourself as one of Jones' elves, and ensure there's never a year without a Salvage Santa for some little kid.
[photo's courtesy of salvagesanta.com]
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Santa Claus wore camouflage puddle stompers and drove a green tractor. His better half wore a coon-skin cap as she waved from a trailer adorned with deer antlers and tinsel, a compound bow and a single hunting boot. They led the annual Chumuckla Redneck Christmas Parade on Sunday, Dec. 13, where literally thousands of folks gathered at a country crossroads to celebrate the holidays in their own backwoods fashion.The weekend’s omnipresent rain faded just before the celebration, and an old fellow with a tangled gray beard turned his black umbrella wrong-side-up to catch treats. He held one hand up, palm to the sky, as his old lady laughed by his elbow.
The rain held off. It was a Christmas miracle.
We are now in the most popular months of the year for people to reflect on their blessings, to give thanks and to show love to others through gifts. However, this year I have noticed in the people around me, a dramatic decline in the number of things to be thankful for. Whether due to financial crisis, health concerns or everything in between; it seems in general, thankfulness has decreased. Look around you. There are people hurting at every stoplight, in every store, and possibly even in your own home. If you are of the few whose lives have been untouched by stress, or if you are of the many who have come to know sadness in a new way, look outside yourself. Find someone who needs a smile, a hug, or an encouraging word and give it. Give it in love, and be thankful for the opportunity to help. The more you focus on others, the clearer your own focus becomes and the lighter you feel. If your heart is heavy, make some other burden light. There is a quote that has meant a lot to me lately, 'Our hearts are heavy and light. We laugh and scream and sing. Our hearts are heavy and light.' In researching this quote I found a video for a recent concert in Orlando aptly titled, Heavy and Light. As you read the words from that video remember to always be thankful for another day and another opportunity to show love. room, we are ALL people in need. People need other people. We probably don't have to convince you
that pain is real. But in the face of that, we want you to know that hope is real, and help is real.
Now go and live, 'Thankful Love.'
Once a year it is perfectly acceptable for folks to go out of their minds, to go absolutely crazy to the point of getting up at the first peep of sunlight only to get a five dollar toaster or twenty percent off a Shop Vac. That day is called Black Friday.
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Twice a year a roar approaches Panama City Beach like a harras of unicorns intent on a wild grazing session. But make no mistake, the sound shaking your mini van and your grandma's dentures is not that of a horned horse, or any other Tolkenesque mythical woodland creature. It is the massive, and sometimes overwhelming, presence of thousands of bikers making PCB and Thunder Beach their home for the extended weekend. Vendors come from near and far to put on this shin dig and there is literally hundreds of things to do, mostly for free, all over the beach. We recommend you start at Frank Brown Park and work your way out from there. Find out more at Thunder Beaches official website.
