Weird Jungian Coincidence

A few weeks ago the unrated version of Knocked Up was on Amazon Unbox for ninety-nine cents, so I rented it even though I’d seen it once before.
I started watching it yesterday, and I think the fact that the other time I watched it while passing a kidney stone is significant. Because compared to [...]

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I Just Watched The Weirdest Movie

Have any of you dozen people who read this blog ever heard of Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer ?
I know that I hadn’t, and I’m embarrassed to admit that, because it seems like the arty literature type thing I would have heard of.
It’s based on a famous book (which I’d also never heard of [...]

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Amy reviewed this a few days ago. She even sent me an email, which I forgot to respond to until it was too late. So I’m writing this post, instead, to let all of you know what I thought of The Prize-Winner of Defiance, Ohio.
Or, at least, the first 15 minutes of said [...]

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Thursday Morning

Remember when I used to come up with clever titles for blog entries? Those days are gone, my friend. I SOOO could not think of what to call this post. Although I do think it’s high time we turned July 5 into a lesser sort of holiday, kind of like Boxing [...]

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Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Over at NiT I wrote the story of why I wasn’t allowed to see A Certain Movie until many years after it was popular. I’ve told that story before in other places and always chuckled at the thought of it.
Today as I wrote the post for Nashville Is Talking I decided to go to [...]

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Pirates III: I “Review” It.

Or “give my opinion”.   Whichever thing I have the right to do, I guess.
Spoileypoos after Jump Street…. (more…)

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Knowing

About 82% of Everyone in Blogland is upset about Richard Schickel’s cranky dismissal of bloggers’ critiques. Lileks did a fairly good job of fisking the fellow, so I won’t bother.
I would, however, like to point out that I think pieces like Schickel’s are fantastic. They’re the writerly equivalent of one of those scenes [...]

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Steampunk Star Wars

Les Jones has a great diversion for a cruddy Monday. Steampunk Star Wars! I’m not even into Steampunk, because I prefer the edgier, more dystopian Cyberpunk (You can always tell a Dick fangirl…but you can’t tell her anything happy). But I must say, these dealios are quite cool.

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Grindhouse

So.  Who’s going to see this?  I’m normally a Tarantino-Opening Day person, but I’m not quite sure I’m sold on Grindhouse yet.

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Hermione Hits The Road

Well, the day has come. Emma Watson has refused to sign for the last two Harry Potter films.
I think Emma Watson and I have something in common.
As much as I love Harry Potter, I think the movies are actually doing the books a great disservice. As [...]

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