Category: entertainment
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ticketed
We had such a good time on our outing to the Wisconsin Film Fest last year that My Darling B and I took time off from work this year so we could see even more films … if we could get the tickets, which tend to sell out rather quickly, some of them within hours… Read.
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guy night
I had to come up with something quick and easy to serve for guy night because I had to have plenty of time to perform a minor plumbing unblockage on the pipe that the kitchen sink drains into. When it’s blocked all the goop backs up and pools in the basement sink. It’s pretty gross.… Read.
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geeking out
I’ve wasted an indefensibly huge amount of time surfing through these photos of PR photos from the original Star Trek television series, but then I’ve wasted an indefensibly huge amount of time watching every episode of the series at least half a dozen times, too. But don’t judge me. Space geekery is a disease. I’m… Read.
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LeGuin
If you like to read fiction but you’ve never read science fiction because of the geek factor, or you’ve tried but you found it too technical or fantastic, you ought to give Ursula Le Guin’s work a try before you give up on the genre entirely. She doesn’t write just science fiction; she’s well-known for… Read.
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voiceovers
The only movies that need voice-overs, the background chatter from one of the main characters to explain what’s going on, fall generally into one of two camps: they’re either film noir detective movies, or they’re not very good. Or (I’m all about giving you options) in the case of the Dennis Quaid sort-of detective flick… Read.
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creepy bot
I’d been sitting beside the phone for about an hour waiting for a phone call from the technician who’s supposed to come fix my dish washer. At some time this morning he promised to call and tell me when he’d be on the way. When the phone finally rang, it turned out to be a… Read.
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mad rollin’ dolls
My Darling B and I finally went to the roller derby on Sunday, because nothing is more romantic than watching women on roller skates beating the crap out of each other. It was the Mad Rollin’ Dolls’ “Love Hurts” match-up, with the Unholy Rollers facing off against the Reservoir Dolls in the first half, and… Read.
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Julie & Julia
The latest post over at Texas Pete’s blog reviews The Fantastic Mister Fox, calling it “the best movie I’ve seen lately.” He also reviews Love Happens (“Crap”), The Proposal (“El Crapola”), Confessions of a Shopaholic (“Super Crap”), New In Town (“C.R.A.P”) and Julie & Julia (“Fun, light, insightful.”) Don’t you think it’s a crime that… Read.
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geek-o-riffic
Hot Chicks With Storm Troopers is a web site dedicated to posting photographs of, um, hot chicks posing with geeks dressed up as Star Wars storm troopers. Or, on Fridays, hot chicks dressed up as storm troopers. Storm troopers with fully-armored boobies. Really. I couldn’t make up stuff like this. Back when I was a… Read.
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Salinger
I’ve been listening to misty-eyed Salinger fans sobbing about what an All-American Novel Catcher In The Rye was and feeling more than awkward about my guilty little secret: It’s not my favorite Salinger novel. It’s good and all, but honestly I thought Salinger was a much better short-story writer than a novelist. And the only… Read.
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