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Things I Hate

Cell Phones Are From…Venus?

27 May 2010

Having a cell phone is like having a relationship. It knows  everybody I know and helps me keep them all organized. I  get irritable when I’m away from it for too long. Occasionally, when I talk to it, it fundamentally misunderstands what I’m saying.* I feel like I can’t live without it. I didn’t realize [...]

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Universal Truths

20 May 2010
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Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band at the TLA, 5/7/2010

10 May 2010

Last Friday, Josh Ritter kicked off his tour in support of So Runs the World Away – his new album that dropped last Tuesday – at the Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia. Ritter’s wife Dawn Landes opened for him with her backing band, The Hounds. Sticking mostly to tracks from Landes’s latest disc [...]

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I See You

27 April 2010

There are, as far as I’m aware, three distinct camps of people in regard to Avatar. The first believes that the film is a transcendent experience – one that makes people sad about how real it isn’t and makes weirdos dress up like the film’s Smurf-tiger hybrid aliens on ChatRoulette.  The second believe that the [...]

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Why Jeff Watches V

21 April 2010

V reminds me of a Boo from a Super Mario Bros. game. I’ve been looking at it for months now and it doesn’t move an inch. I keep looking at it, though, because I know once my back is turned that it’s going to be all fangs and flurries of violent movement. The show has [...]

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Roger Ebert – Wrong About Gaming?

19 April 2010

In the loud and unfortunately nonsensical (in many cases) reaction to Roger Ebert’s proclamation that video games are not and will likely never be art, it is easy to miss that Ebert is not decrying the medium or proclaiming it to be without merit.  He’s simply saying that games aren’t art. And, speaking as a [...]

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5 Implausible Things That Someone Is Going To Turn Into A Movie Someday

12 April 2010

Did you know they’re making a movie of Battleship?  They’re making a movie about those obnoxious E-trade demon babies. I think they’re even making a movie out of The Sims, and that’s a shame because there’s no way in hell it’s about the lives of mad scientists and criminals who speak in a gibberish language [...]

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It’s Like the Tea Party Meets Clowns Meets People Who Watch The Crow Every Day

7 April 2010

Three videos, presented without comment:

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It’s The Craziest Thing, Guys. My Arm Got Bitten Off By A Dinosaur. For Real.

1 April 2010

Also, gang, I’m totally pregnant.

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31 Days of Terror – Skeleton Man + Giveaway

30 March 2010

[I wrote two separate blog posts about the film Skeleton Man in my tenure as a blogger.  The first was what might now be called a liveblog of the first time I watched the movie, the second a more coherent analysis of the film that is truly the bestworst of made-for-SciFi television movies, Sharks In [...]

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