Category: entertainment
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can’t wait for the video
Hypothetical question for you: Pretend for a moment that you have somehow been sucked backward through time. Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, you find yourself experiencing events that have already happened to you. As a general rule, what’s the one thing you should never, ever do? Anybody? Anybody? Okay, I’ll just tell you:… Read.
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The Astronaut Wives Club
It’s possible that the seven wives of the first American astronauts may have been boring people. I haven’t met any of them. It seems unlikely, though. What I’ve read about them (up until now) suggests that they were at least as interesting as most people. And being military wives, they’d traveled back and forth across… Read.
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57 channels of shit
All those channels of shit TV shows make it easier for you to get the quality shows you like to watch, according to the geniuses who study and write reports about his kind of crap. Having just returned from a business trip to Hayward, Wisconsin, where there is very little to do in early December… Read.
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hannalore gets it
In today’s installment of Questionable Content, a light bulb goes on over Hannalore’s head when she finally gets why Marigold wants to see Dale … and it’s a CFC light bulb. I wonder if this is the first time a CFC light bulb has been used in a toon to illustrate a eureka moment? Read.
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no words
My brother plays this game with me where he texts me a line from a pop song, sometimes familiar, sometimes obscure, and I try to guess what it is. He’s much better at this game than I am. The other day he texted, “He says his name is William, but I’m sure he’s Bill or… Read.
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Manic Monday
The song stuck in my head all last week was The Bangles’ Manic Monday. Pick just about any one of their songs and I’ll tap my feet or sing along with it, so ordinarily I wouldn’t be bothered if one was stuck in my head for days on end, but Manic Monday is arguably the… Read.
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The Cloud Atlas
We watched The Cloud Atlas last weekend. I didn’t like it. And the more I think about it, the less I like it. The point of the movie, and I won’t be giving anything away by starting with this, is that everything we do connects us with everything everybody else does. To bring you this… Read.
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horseshoes & hand grenades
Funny thing: I’ve been to two beer festivals in two months and at both of them I’ve seen bluegrass bands that made me, and I mean made me tap my feet. Last month it was The Material Guys at the Dilly-Dally, hosted by Karben4. This month, it was Horseshoes & Hand Grenades at the Great… Read.
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Kill Me Now
The song stuck in my head this morning is the saccharin-sweet teen ballad Loving You by Debbie Gibson Minnie Riperton. It’s been playing on a loop for hours. I want to die. Next-day edit: I eventually got this song out of my head without killing myself, but it came back the next day. Not only… Read.
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House Of Cards
We watched just three episodes of Boardwalk Empire before we got bored with it and moved on to the next television show in our To Be Watched pile of DVDs, House of Cards, another show about corrupt politicians but a much better one. The good writers HBO couldn’t find when they were looking for someone… Read.
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