I’m curious as to how many ‘lurkers’ there are out there, and maybe some of you are too?

Here’s what I’d like (humor me if you will): if you’ve come to this site and are reading this, I’d like you to please post a comment. It doesn’t have to be “War and Peace”, a simple “here” will do as if we were taking attendance (not asking on behalf of the site by the way, just my own personal request here). Its easy to do, make up a username, hell make up an e-mail address if you’d like I’m just curious about numbers, not who you are. If you’d like to though, feel free to tell us a little about yourself or what you’d like to see more of here (this may be a good future poll topic, Thor, if you’re reading this) more restaurant and other reviews? more gossip? non-local items that are interesting or funny grabbed from cyberspace? more UVA related stuff? Like to come here to read, but don’t want to post, thats fine and a simple “here” will do. Heard a good joke and want to share it? Make that your comment.

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A few years ago I thought my friends and I were lucky to get tickets to the hottest festival screening of the year, but it didn’t turn out the way we planned.

Picture Culbreth Theatre (this is before the Paramount reopened I believe) packed to the rafters with the who’s who of Charlottesville society dressed to the 9’s for the premier of the directorial debut of Nicolas Cage. What followed, the screening of ‘Sonny’ was perhaps the worst film I’ve ever seen. With more T&A than a timm-ay post, Sonny was the coming-of-age story of a New Orleans gigolo, chock full of whores, madames and pimps wrapped around a seemingly 10 minute long Trans-Am fueled music video, with extra helpings of drugs and violence. Not only was the story itself offensive to most everyone there, but the acting was terrible (including a cameo by Cage himself as the pimp ‘Acid Yellow’???) and the directing and production lousy.

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