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20 July 2010
I Write Like.
I wouldn’t think this is very accurate, but what can you do, get the howling fantods or something? Is it bad to want a random “i write like” website to say you write more like Flaubert than David Foster Wallace? I think this probably just counts the number of times “like” shows up in your [...]
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20 June 2010
True Blood: Bad Blood (Season 3, Ep. 1; 2010)
Season 3 opens with the apparent fact that everyone from Bill to Eric to Sam to blah have done tons of abdominal exercises between the time Sookie ran into the bathroom to mull her future at the end of Season 2 and the time she ran out of bathroom to discover Bill had abandoned her. [...]
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19 April 2010
A completely awesome sidebar.
While googling, I actually managed to come across my post of Total Recall, somewhat randomly. And I have to admit, it is totally completely awesome that my magic Related Posts calculator is suggesting that if you enjoyed Total Recall, you might enjoy The Dead. And oh my god, if you enjoyed The Dead — YES: [...]
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10 April 2010
Rescue Me: DNA (2004)
Isn’t it a little too soon to have Tommy’s youngest daughter in a car accident? With all the requisite “walk away Tommy” and dudes holding him back while he rages scenes, this must have been a Sweeps week or something. Nevertheless, the writing righted the ship a little afterwards, since this was used as a [...]
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4 April 2010
Humpday (2009)
Humpday is a film about straight dudes for straight dudes and its topic is the anxiety straight dudes feel about gay dudes. Two college buddies reunite – one has been a drifter, an artist, has hip hats that have cooler stories than anything he’s done; the other has built a life, has a home, a [...]
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1 April 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice in Wonderland was pretty trashy, and so continues Tim Burton’s slide into creating things to look at but not much else. Sweeney Todd worked pretty well for me on the whole (apart from H.B.C.’s singing – it’s still ringing in my ears), but Alice in Wonderland returns to the spectacle without girders. Granted, I [...]
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29 March 2010
Rescue Me: Kansas (2004)
Rescue Me‘s central support system for Tommy Gavin is that of his family, and his wife is drifting away from him, saying he is no longer connected to reality. His children are growing up, etc. The wife wants to move away, to get out of the neighborhood of firefighters, where 9/11 has had a huge [...]
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28 March 2010
Rescue Me: Gay (2004)
Rescue Me‘s theme this week is gayness in all aspects of the firefighters lives. Tommy sees gays everywhere – his cousin’s widow is being a little too intimate with a woman, there’s a “geek” vs. “gay” diatribe about Tommy’s godson, and some hilarious moments with Sean and Mike, the two youngest firefighters in the house, [...]
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27 March 2010
Rescue Me: Guts (2004)
Rescue Me showed up on the queue under the mistaken impression that it was the firefighter show that filmed its headquarters in the Badge Building. Turns out that was a show from 1999 called Third Watch. This, rather, is a post-9/11 acerbic take on firefighters. It isn’t necessarily directly about PTSD, though it’s obvious a [...]
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14 March 2010
Fishing with John: Dennis Hopper (1991)
The final two episodes of Fishing with John feature Dennis Hopper, and they go together to Thailand in search of a Giant Squid. It must be said the music in Fishing with John is quite excellent, and to be expected given John Lurie’s position with lounging lizards. It becomes apparent that the Giant Squid is [...]