February 2012
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January 2012
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Connoisseurs of crazy should definitely read this likable Nicholas Cage interview. (forget where I saw it linked, credit where credit was due).
Aren’t Oscarbatory films like The Artist, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris the high brow equivalent of the Transformers, easing the viewer into the same warm nostalgia bath, just with the particulars adjusted to reflect a different audience’s adolescent fixations? Might they even be even more meretricious because they rely on the borrowed auras from the canonical works/figures they...
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December 2011
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“Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don’t just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it on top of something, then fry it up and put it in a tortilla and put in a microwave, heat it up and give it to you and expect it to taste good. You know? For those of you who can cook, y’all know what I’m talking about. If...
October 2011
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the album functions awfully well as background listening—a form of grim, repetitive mood music. It might be nice to put on if you planned to spend a long afternoon renovating a sex dungeon or beating someone up.
Nitsuh Abebe on “Lulu”
One suggestion is to hide food inside Mr. Potato Head and let your octopus dismantle it.
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September 2011
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The Whole Kielbasa for 9/12/11
“Foods that aren’t considered ‘food’ will become food in the future.”
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The Whole Kielbasa for 9/2/11
“Seeing bears and mountain lion tracks, catching a trout with bare hands, as Mr. Snyder did last month, is gravy.”
suggestion by username: Pterodactyls.
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The Whole Kielbasa for 9/1/11
This is the inaugural entry of a series where I remove a favorite sentence from an article I have read and present it to you shorn of all context, so that you can try and guess exactly what it means. First inductee:
The whole kielbasa would be a 9.0-plus that rocks the entire Northwest coast.
I am thinking of calling this feature “The Whole Kielbasa” unless I come up with something...
August 2011
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Recessional song for brother’s wedding supposed to be U2’s “Beautiful Day”. He is considering having the DJ start playing that, followed by needle-scratch FX and then The Scorpions. He almost has to at this point, right?
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Start play at 7:00 min. thank you Paul.
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future-x:
Behold, the first ever sketch of Stefon! (Ben Affleck, s34e07)
saving to watch this later…
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