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Our intrepid author, upon forgetting his column deadline while moving to Chicago, bumps into an old friend, Jonny Quest.
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A year ago my hard drive crashed and I lost the music collection I’d been building since college. Much of the music I listened to regularly I had in albums on CD, but a good portion of the songs I lost were from various bits and pieces of soundtracks and compilations, mixes gifted from...
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Just after college I worked at a big-box home goods store, one of those that believed in calling customers “guests” to maximize profit. Mostly I straightened product displays, though my boss hinted that someday I might learn the cash register position, too. At the end of my first or second or third day of...
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I’ve been away, friends, and life has been hectic — full of movement through time and also space – but I made it a point to return in time to say something about this week’s theme, hiccups. How could I not? So I’ve been thinking about hiccupping all week, and thinking about thinking about...
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While I am NOT one for animal murder, this leviathan had clearly become a danger to everyone within a couple thousand miles of it. It’s biblical. I shudder to think of seeing it in the flesh: like the goddamned basilisk, it had indeed become a danger to humanity. Godzilla here was caught picking off...
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jud jud jud jud jud jud jud shud jud jud jah Gallop Song. Jud Jud (1987-1999?) To paraphrase one of my teachers,...
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Hello dear readers (even if you are hypothetical), I am a bad scholar. I am a slacker…Wait…maybe I’m  a forward thinking hemi-visionary? NO!! A SLACKER! But perhaps…(shifty eyes direct shifty hands to type in the web page for Dragon Age: Origins) *link not provided because, dammit, they have enough publicity, and i’m not being...
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I love cartoons. I love spy things. I also love starting columns with short declarative sentences. I enjoy mangoes. If you’ve been paying attention for past few months, you’ll remember that I’ve already covered a number of spy-types in their various cinematic and literary iterations: James Bond, Alec Leamas, Dirk Pitt, Jason Bourne, etcetera...
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The critical reception of Southland Tales at the 2006 Cannes Festival was pretty bad. The overarching sentiment was that Richard Kelly, darling of Donnie Darko fame, had been undone by ambition and sophmoritis. But let's take the critics' argument, then; let's say that this is a case of failed cinema (and not simply the...
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“There are and there will be thousands of princes. There is only one Beethoven” -Ludwig von Beethoven Sometimes a perfect summertime tune just makes you want to take your shirt off. Beethoven’s 6th (1808) is not one of those tunes. But. Only cause it’s an antique in 2010. Known as “The Pastoral Symphony”, Beethoven...
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