Category: entertainment
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Stop already
Please, WOLX, please stop playing “The Pina Colada Song.” My generation put that song at the top of the pop song charts so many moons ago, but we never liked that song. We bumped it up the charts by mistake. Haven’t you ever drunk-dialed a request line and asked them to play a song that… Read.
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The Man From Laramie
Wow, they just don’t make movies like The Man From Laramie any more. For one thing, nobody likes movies that corny now. For another, there’s no Technicolor. I really miss Technicolor. The university puts on a show that’s open to the public and free, courtesy of the film studies program. I think we went to… Read.
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Coop once again
I realize I posted a quote from Michael Perry’s Coop just yesterday, but I can’t help bringing this one to your attention today. Consider this a forewarning. I have a feeling this book’s going to be pregnant with quotable material. Sometimes during the day when the cows were settled we kids went to the barn… Read.
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Coop
From Michael Perry’s Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg: I am open to the idea of home birth because I love my wife and this is what she wants, but I am also bucky about the idea of delivering babies old-style if it is simply in service of some… Read.
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Progress!
Just because I haven’t been posting updates about my project to rebuild the LoCo Railway doesn’t mean I haven’t been tacking on a little benchwork here and a little more there to keep the project going. Whenever I can find twenty minutes or so I sneak down to the basement to see what I can… Read.
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Summer Wars
After scurrying from the UW campus up to cap square to watch Weather Gazers at the Bartell theater, we had to scurry back again to the Union theater on the UW campus to watch Summer Wars, the last film on our schedule for this year’s film festival. Next year, we’ve got to try a little… Read.
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Weather Gazers
After watching Sasha at the Play Circle theater on the UW campus, we had thirty minutes to hoof it all the way into town to the Bartell theater on the other side of cap square to see Weather Gazers. I’m pretty sure we’ve done more walking these past five days than we have in the… Read.
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Sasha
The last day of the film festival! *sigh* Five days seems like a lot, until it’s over. Our first film on the last day was Sasha, about a boy with a crush on his piano teacher, which probably would’ve been all right with his parents if his piano teacher had been a woman, but he… Read.
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Slightly Unsettling Shorts
Our last viewing on Friday night was a collection of short films shown at Monona Terrace: Blueberry was the story of a small girl, her enormous python and a dad temporarily distracted by a break-up. What could go wrong? The point of Animal Control was completely lost on me. Honestly, I have no idea what… Read.
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Parking
Synopsis of Parking: Man is driving home from work, stops to buy a cake for dinner with his wife, can’t get home on time because various people keep double-parking next to his car. Man is involved in a series of otherwise unrelated incidents that I though were really pretty boring and went on way too… Read.
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