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The New Homeless

Wal-Mart parking lot

These most recent neighbors of ours are not filthy drunken bums in oil leaking junkers. We’ve seen whole families crammed into small cars, trying to sleep upright – while we sleep in our comfy full size bed, complete with reading lights and stuffed animals. We stay at Wal-Marts by choice – they don’t.

Appaloosa

There is enough humor mixed with the occasional violent gun battle to make you laugh as you wince. The final outcome is going to be based on who among the gunslingers are faster, braver, and more bulletproof. Yet with all this savagery going on around him, Sheriff Virgil spends his time between battles reading Emerson’s poetry with a dictionary at his side. (Includes video feature)