Mint Museum Uptown is the second branch of the Mint Museum, the first being off of Randolph road in Charlotte. Admission to get in is $15 for Adults and $10 for college students and seniors, except on Wednesdays when it’s free from 5pm-9pm. Upon walking up the steps to the Mint Museum Uptown, there is a restaurant hidden to the left. Thru the front doors, at the front desk, the receptionist will ask if you have been here before and request a zip code. After that, you are free to roam the 3rd and 4th floors. Because the escalators are quite high without any sizeable barricade separating my fear of heights from the possibility of falling over, we opted to take the elevators. The receptionist recommended beginning on the 4th floor and working our way down, so that is what we did.
Read MoreJenny Slate and Abby Quinn in LANDLINE, an Amazon Studios release. Photo courtesy of Amazon Studios.
Fast forward a couple of decades to modern day and my favorite films are romantic-comedies. They’re funny, relatable, and contrary to popular belief, realistic. (I know, let me live.) Last week, I was browsing Amazon Prime Video attempting to find something to watch while eating chicken and rice. I came upon an Amazon produced movie called Landline. The movie takes place in the year 1995 in Manhattan. A daughter finds out her father is having an affair and she tells her older sister as they begin to piece the puzzle and learn what it means to grow up and develop their own ideas of love. What interested me about the synopsis is it took place in Manhattan in the year 1995. I love films made with modern day technology that take place in the past. If done accurately, it gives a vivid look into life during that time with technology in which that time could not have offered. Might I add, movies or shows that take place in New York City always seem to have a certain allure to them.
Read MoreI saw a decapitated body on Twitter tonight. It was my first time seeing something that horrific and gruesome. Much worse than this picture of a girl eating ramen out of the toilet I saw last summer. Also on Twitter, ironically. I realize I need to stay off the internet for a while, social media to be specific. If I’m on social media, I hope it’s because I have something worthy to share, and if not, I hope I won’t be. The body had over 20,000 retweets. Over. Twenty. Thousand. There’s too much on the web we’ve become accustomed to seeing, and if not accustomed to, not surprised when we do see it. When did we become so desensitized to human life? Social media has taken the innocence of kids sooner than life would’ve. I think that’s sad.
Read MoreWhen I was younger, my parents used to buy me Hot Wheels cars to collect. One of my favorite ones I had was a dark blue/purple Lamborghini Countach that was heat activated and had a snake graphic on the hood when you touched it long enough. Eventually, I grew out of collecting Hot Wheels cars when I began watching wrestling only to begin again my sophomore year of high school
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