Coconut Oil: The Doctors Debate

Forget the coconut oil, just give me the sunny beachIf you are interested in diet, then you've heard of Dr. Mercola (mercola.com). Mercola's natural health site is enormously popular and has many followers. He writes fascinating articles on a multitude of nutritional issues - however there is an edge of fear and paranoia that has always made me feel uncomfortable....

Farscape - Starburst Edition Season 3, Collection 2

The second volume of the Starbursteditions for
Farscape's third season presents viewers witheight more episodes in the
science fiction series. Some of theseepisodes are stand-alone, while a few
others continue the story arcfrom the first third of the season, culminating in
a two-parter thatfeels a lot more like a season finale than a mid-season
episode. Thecontent here will be entertaining to fans of the series, but in
theend I'd say that the series doesn't pick up enough momentum toconvert casual
viewers into complete fans.
Collection Two opens with thegeneric space
adventure "Green Eyed Monster," in which thehybrid leviathan
Talyn is swallowed by a giant budong. Will the crewfigure out how to escape? Hm,
let me think about that. Fans of theshow will enjoy seeing the character
interaction...
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Townes Van Zandt - Be Here to Love Me

This is a documentary about somewhat legendary Texas
singer/songwriterTownesVan Zandt,incredibly influential on his peers and a man
seemingly destinedfor stardom given his writing prowess as well as musical
talents. Country music luminaries such as Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson
cannot say enough goodthings about his work; Steve Earle offered to stand on Bob
Dylan's coffeetable and declare Van Zandt as the world's greatest songwriter.
Whatcommercial success he did have came later in his career, penning the
song"Poncho And Lefty" which Nelson and Merle Haggard recorded and had a hugehit
with, as well as "If I Needed Someone"- which he said was the only songhe ever
wrote in his sleep- which Harris had success covering.

That Townes was a
troubled, somewhat twisted man is an understatement; inhis teens he was treated
for clinical depression with months of shocktreatments,...
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The Best of Not The 9 O'Clock News

>Started during the heyday of Saturday Night Live in 1979, Notthe
Nine O'Clock News (NtNON) was the British answer to a fast pacedand edgy
sketch comedy show. Staring a quartet of talented comediansand boasting sketches
written by nearly everyone working in British comedyTV at the time, NtNON was
satirical, controversial, and most of all veryfunny. Now A&E has released a
two DVD set of some of the mosthumorous sketches from the show's four season
history in The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News.
The show stars Rowan Atkinson (Balck Adder, Mr. Bean), Mel Smith and
Griff Rhys Jones (later of Alas Smith & Jones)and Pamela Stephenson
(who appeared on SNL before retiring from show business)who all play various
roles. The entire cast is very funny and playtheir parts well, but Rowan
Atkinson really...
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Armored Trooper Votoms: Stage 1: Uoodo City

Science fiction in anime is one of the leading genres
if you think about it, largely due to the manner in which so many titles
incorporate various fantastic elements to tell what often amount to very human
stories. One series from over twenty years ago is now being re-released by
Central Park Media and that is the extensive universe of VOTOMS. The
former version was satisfying for fans in that the entire 54 episodes were
released in relatively untouched form but this new set of releases breaks the
show down into four arcs with today's review of the first one, Armored
Trooper VOTOMS: Stage 1: Uoodo City, here before you. There are some minor
spoilers in the review but I've gone out of my way to limit them in order to
facilitate the discussion but allow a whole new crop of fans to learn the
reasons why the series has such a loyal following. Here's a quick look at the
series wi...
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Blue Thunder: SE

1983 was quite a year in many ways, aside from the
release of the then-final volume in the Star Wars trilogy, Ronald Regan's
Presidency was well underway, all but eliminating the previously stifling double
digit inflation that nearly collapsed the economy, and terrorist in the Middle
East had killed hundreds of US servicemen in a bombing attack.
Rock & Rule played for a short
time before disappearing into the annals of cult classics and liberal whining
about Big Brother (a reference to George Orwell's novel, 1984) was all
over the place. The end of the Vietnam War and Watergate were still firmly in
the minds of a distrusting public that had once largely supported the various
institutions of government and big business. The Cold War had heated up and the
US military had pushed a huge expansion that led, ultimatel...
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Ultra Maniac 6: Magical Love

One of the more bothersome aspects of reviewing
series that aren't released in season set form is that we don't always get each
volume in a series, causing us to lose any sense of continuity and context a
creative team might've cobbled together for a series. Such is the case with an
anime series known as Ultra Maniac, a story about two gals as they chase
their dream boys while trying to learn about magic, life, and the power of both
kinds of magic. Today's review is on the sixth volume of the series,
Ultra Maniac 6: Magical Love, where the characters seem to finally embrace their
feelings for one another and start the short road to ending the series. Like

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