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about the site...

Thanks for visiting my website! I hope you enjoy your stay and are able to find your way around without any problems.

I created this site as a project, but it turned into a different few things. First off, it is a blog; simply a place where I can write some of my scattered, random thoughts, and occasionally rant a little bit, about how the man is keeping you (and me) down.

Secondly, it has become a place where I have posted some photography, so feel free to check some of that out as well. And lastly, This site will be used as part of a a few different projects for my masters degree. Feel free to email me if you have any questions, comments, concerns during your stay: (benhelms@gmail.com)

about me...

A little about me, let’s see...Well, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, then moved to Los Angeles for college and about halfway through that I moved out to Boston. After falling in love with New England (go Pats/Sox!), I made my way back to SoCal and got two degrees from Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles, CA (a BA in English-Writing & an MS in College Counseling and Student Development). Then I moved up to Oregon and woked as a Hall Director at the University of Portland in Oregon. From there, I moved down to Mt. Shasta, California. Man, I love this place. Mountains, sun, snow, and family. What more could a man ask for?

Besides all that, I love writing, backpacking, photography, homebrewing, music (recording, composing and listening), playing/watching sports, and exploring new lands.

Tag Archives: Movies

TV/Film Paradigm Shift

Times are a changin’. Television shows are getting better and better while Hollywood has continued to hang their hats on the same old stuff. While TV programming is becoming more and more film-like, it seems like the film industry is making that a pretty low bar. And sure while we’ll always have wonderful films each...

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Baseball, Beer, Dumb & Dumber

Let’s see… Since my last blog (a few days ago), I’ve started brewing my first batch of beer (Fresh Cab Porter), the San Francisco Giants have won the pennant (The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!), and there are a few other things going on in my life that make it just...

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Writers Gotta Write

I’ve done a lotta stuff I’m not very proud of in my life. Getting expelled from school, eating “just one more” chocolate chip cookie (every time), and punching my brother (and throwing sharp/heavy things at him as well…) when we were kids (mostly), are just a few that come to mind. But there are a...

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Vital Information For Your Everyday Life: Mythbusters Edition

I know I’m not Lori Beth Denberg or anything, but I figured with an extra day off I could take the time to make a little list of information that will most likely rock your world. It’s no secret I love me some Mythbusters. In fact, after going through each of the 138 episodes to...

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19 Day Till…you know…

Oh, I just had the loveliest of weekends! We had cocoa and sugarplumbs and even mint m&m’s! ‘Twas the warmest and best night of my…::cough::cough:: Okay…done with all that “It’s a Wonderful Life” kinda talk…whew. Anwyho, it really was a grand…I mean, great weekend! And I don’t even mean with sports, in fact, all eight...

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Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

Remember, remember the fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Catchy, right? These limerick-like words have been forever immortalized in the 2006 Wachowski brothers’ thriller, but at the same time, did anyone even know what the crap Guy Fawkes Day actually...

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