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This Is What You Get When You Clean Out Your Gmail Drafts Folder

Posted in Film on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The virtual house cleaning I mentioned a few days back continues, as today I delved into my Gmail drafts folder, a repository of lists, writing ideas and half-baked blog posts. In the era before I had my laptop, I would write blog entries in a variety of places and save them in my Gmail account [...]

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Delurking Day, Better Late Than Never

Posted in Weblogs on January 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Delurking Day was two weeks ago and I totally missed it but I didn’t want the month to go by without having my do-over De-Day. So, do me a favor–come out of the shadows any and all of you who regularly, semi-regularly or irregularly visit this site and give me a shout out in the [...]

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Crossing My Fingers

Posted in Film, Television on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I hope the rumors about an Arrested Development movie are true. I really miss the wacky Bluth family. Thank god for 30 Rock, the closest thing right now to great absurd comedy since AD prematurely wrapped a few years ago.

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Review: Sweet Land (2005)

Posted in Film on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A close knit (and closed minded) Norwegian community in post-WWI rural Minnesota is less than welcoming to Inge (Elizabeth Reaser), a newly arrived German mail order bride. Sweet Land tells the story of Inge’s experience and the budding romance between this outcast and her intended, a quiet and hard working farmer named Lars Torvik (Tim [...]

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Updike Unread

Posted in Books on January 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

John Updike has never been on my radar of books I’d like to (or should) read. I suppose I’m like many people today who, upon hearing the news of his death, are thinking maybe now I should get around to reading a book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. If anyone would recommend one over another, [...]

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Baloneyvitch

Posted in Political Mumbo Jumbo on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Blagojevich circus rolled into New York today, where he made the rounds on national TV proving to the rest of the country what we in Illinois have known for a while now–this man is a complete yahoo. They can’t impeach him fast enough as far as I’m concerned. Personally, I’m looking forward to the [...]

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Something I’ve Never Understood

Posted in Books on January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

You know how when you read a work of classic literature, it’s often preceded by an “introduction”? Why isn’t it called “spoilers”? And why doesn’t it come at the end of the book, since it invariably contains plot points and character developments you don’t want to know before reading the book? I’m irked by this [...]

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Well, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Posted in Photography, Weather on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago, friends and I made a date to see a few photography exhibits, including the showing of Michael Wolf photos at the Museum of Contemporary Photography which we missed the last time we were downtown touring exhibits. (The campus of Columbia College was on break and therefore the building was closed.) So, [...]

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Film: Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Posted in Film on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

After a bizarre electrical accident in a power plant magnetizes the already whacked-out Jerry Gerber (Jack Black playing Jack Black), he unwittingly erases all the videos in his friend’s very-behind-the-times video store. To save the store (and in a convoluted way, their entire fading New Jersey neighborhood) the two buddies go about restocking the shelves [...]

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ER: It’s Like a Car Wreck

Posted in Television on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s pretty terrible but I can’t stop watching. I mean, after fifteen years I have to see it through to the bitter end. And thankfully, this season is the bitter end.

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