Category: entertainment
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short skirt long racket
“Welcome to Star Fleet!” “Thanks! I’m really looking forward to boldly going to strange, new worlds and doing lots of science and adventure!” “You’ll have to wear a uniform.” “I’m okay with that.” “Here you go!” “Where’s the rest of it?” “What do you mean? That’s it.” “This is a cocktail dress.” “That’s the official… Read.
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thelma and louise
I watched “Thelma and Louise” for the first time last night. No, I don’t know why I waited so long. Sometimes I just never get around to seeing a movie while it’s in theaters and keep putting off when it’s the most popular rental, and then it sort of fades into the background and I… Read.
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paper doll
I was listening to “Paper Doll” by The Mills Brothers the other day when I thought, “Hmmm, it’s been a while since I ruined a song.” “Paper Doll,” when sung by The Mills Brothers, is one of my favorite songs ever. It might even be one of my favorite songs when sung by other groups,… Read.
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thorn birds 6-25-20
Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a single copy of “The Thorn Birds:” A few minutes later, two more books have been added to the stack: “The Thorn Birds 3: Things Be Getting Tornier!” “The Thorn Birds 2: More Thorns” The stack gets a little higher in the next scene with an… Read.
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thorn birds 6-24-20
Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a stack of books on the end table: A Clockwork Orange The Sword in the Stone 1984 The Picture of Dorian Gray The Thorn Birds A few minutes later, “A Clockwork Orange” has been transformed into “A Clockwork Thornge.” After that, “The Sword in the Stone”… Read.
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Jesus Christ Superstar
I’m pretty sure I’m getting entirely the wrong story from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. The story I get is: There are these two good friends, Judas and Jesus. Jesus actually has a lot of friends, twelve of them, but Judas is the one who can tell Jesus stuff the other friends won’t or… Read.
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thorn birds 6-22-20
Today’s episode of “A Closer Look” starts off with a single copy of “The Thorn Birds” on the end table: In the next scene, a copy of “The Bourne Identity” appears on top: Next, “The Thorn Birds” and “The Bourne Identity” seem to meld into a single copy of “The Thourne Identity.” And finally, “The… Read.
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a pleasant distraction
I finally found a reality show I like. Not that I was looking for one. I gave up on reality shows almost as soon as they became a thing. It didn’t take long for me to figure out that stiff, self-conscious drama played by terrible actors working with practically no plot almost always added up… Read.
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Network Effect
I have been enjoying the hell out of The Murderbot Diaries for only about four months. I read the first novella, “All Systems Red,” in a weekend in February and liked it so much I snapped up all three of the rest of the series of novellas – “Artificial Condition,” “Rogue Protocol,” and “Exit Strategy”… Read.
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life doesn’t have to be convincing
Neil Gaiman interviews N.K. Jemisin, 5/2/2020 Gaiman: Back in 2014, I was in Jordan in a Syrian refugee camp – I was talking to the refugees about what made them flee their homes, what made them flee their cities. In order to get to those camps, they had to cross a desert where there would… Read.
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