Hi! Remember me? Me neither. So. I’ve been reading Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room for eight years. Really. I used to have this job that didn’t really require me to — how you say — do stuff, and so filling 40 hours per week in a small and painfully visible cubicle could be an exciting mental challenge. Did [...]
Bleh. I started this post a week and a half ago. Then my best intentions were railroaded when the final season of The Tudors arrived on my doorstep. I had also had grand plans that day to listen to the new Grinderman album, watch Cemetery Junction, and work on my novel, but there was some Henry [...]
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1) One of my favorite things about the Antoine Dodson phenomenon (and believe me, it’s a tough race) is watching more and more people run around discussing memes and trying to make it sound as though this word has been a part of their casual vocabulary for years. 2) The latest title sequence for Hell’s Kitchen is [...]
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O spotty internet connectivity, ye wretched foe of timely blogging! O poor time-management skills, thou dost not help either! Setting these trifles asides: This week I went to see the American Repertory Theater‘s production of Cabaret, starring Amanda Palmer* of the Dresden Dolls as the Emcee (sporting a tightly bound rack and a moderately prominent phallic [...]
– Dr. Paul Armstrong, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again
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“You just unleashed an eight-legged man-eating shark on the world!” “A minor setback.” It’s true. It took a full week after Sharktopus aired on SyFy for me to watch it. I won’t insult you by trying to make some excuse. Yes, the sharktopus has its own theme song. It goes without saying that this is [...]
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Don’t sue a stripper. She’s a stripper. Life sued her, and she lost. – Joel McHale, Community
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Remember Electric Dreams? The dude buys a “state-of-the-art” computer that ends up falling in love with Virginia Madsen? And the computer (Edgar) tries to fight him for her? All to the soothing tones of Giorgio Moroder? Ha ha!
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CAUTION: May contain mild spoilers.* So, I read Dracula, because (a) I hadn’t yet, and (b) I was hoping to get around eventually to reading some Dracula derivatives. photo credit: Kristymp To be honest, my expectations were low, even after I reminded myself that Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder were not actually in the book [...]
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Quite sure I’m not the first to use that pun. I grew up listening to Rush. Just not by choice. My older brother was one very earnest Rush fan. Like all teenagers, he had perfected a stereo volume level that was one decibel shy of disintegrating the walls, and if we wanted to summon him [...]
