davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.
A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.
You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.
I have been subscribed to you for years, and I have no clue where it all started. I generally enjoy your posts though.
But this is egregious. How could you possibly pick “Top Gun” or “Vanilla Sky” over “A Few Good Men”?
I loved A Few Good Men and think it’s a great film … but really it’s just Jack Nicholson’s monologue in the court room that makes the movie, y’know?
Tom Cruise picked Born on 4th July to adverse his role in a previous film which supported war.
A Few Good Men was one of his best rolls. Vanilla Sky is mind numbingly terrible. I would put Mission Impossible or Tropic Thunder or Interview with a Vampire up there before Vanilla Sky.