Escape From Suburbia:  A good movie.  However you MUST watch the prequel, The End of Suburbia.  Anyone who wants to understand us, should watch this movie.  It is about peak oil, the moment when the world can produce the maximum amount of oil possible.  This would not be an issue, if our civilization was not based on cheap oil.  We can no longer afford a 3000 mile Caesar salad.  The first of these movies will blow you away.  The second was a good documentary, but it was more about the lives of people who were afraid of peak oil, and the choices that they were making.  No new messages, but the same faces.  What made this movie worth a mention was that while all these experts were forecasting doom back in 2006, one of them mentioned that the cost of fuel would reach a certain breaking point, then the stock market would collapse.  Didn’t this just happen folks?!?!?!  Giant corporations tried to save a buck by off-shoring our jobs, but suddenly failed when the costs of doing so bit them in the …..well, go watch the pair of movies.

Best movie ever:  King Corn.  Two guys from Boston learn that you are what you eat. Not only do we eat corn based products, but we feed our livestock corn products….so we are slowly turning into corn based beings. Two Bean Town graduates move to Iowa to grow an acre of corn to learn how it enters the food stream.  Not only is it mind-shaking for our food, it does describe what it’s like living here.  It’s filmed in Greene,  Iowa.  We are in Greene Country, Iowa, but the people and the feel are the same.  I should make my New England relatives watch this to understand why we moved here.