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In a World for August, 2010
As summer winds down to August, all those movies that studios either couldn’t make sense of or otherwise couldn’t cut it get unleashed on the public. Consequently August is a kind of limbo; most of the releases have the hallmark of a blockbuster but aren’t quite “award season” material. They’re somewhere in between. As with
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As summer winds down to August, all those movies that studios either couldn’t make sense of or otherwise couldn’t cut it get unleashed on the public. Consequently August is a kind of limbo; most of the releases have the hallmark of a blockbuster but aren’t quite “award season” material. They’re somewhere in between. As with
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WARNING: There will be plenty of spoilers in this frank and open discussion of the fourth season premiere of Mad Men, “Public Relations.” So hold onto your hams, because here we go. BENJAMIN: I’ll just start off by saying that it’s going to be tough to be objective about the entire episode when it ended on such a ridiculously
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In the immortal and possibly slightly paraphrased words of noted philosopher Jamie Farr (from one of his appearances on The Gong Show): “What you see is what you got, what you don’t see might be hot!” Oh, Mr. Squirrel in Underpants…you are such a tease! Though thinking on this further…the auction reads as follows: “Are
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This week, since there weren’t really any albums coming out I felt compelled to review (none I could stream, anyway), I figured I’d take a
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News Briefs for Friday, July 30
Dutch brewer creates beer that’s 60 percent alcohol. Incidentally, travel to the Netherlands spikes. Anti-Defamation League agrees that bowing to religious bigots is not only wrong but goes against the founding principles of our nations, but thinks we should go ahead and do it anyway because we might hurt someone’s feelings. Taliban says it will
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Asshole available. Cost: $18 million. A judge blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s “show me your papers” law on the grounds that requiring legal aliens to carry proof of citizenship infringes their liberty. Libertarians not expected to be sympathetic, strangely enough. Life insurance company puts payments for dead soldiers into their corporate accounts rather
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Well, shit, here we go again. Google to bring the success of Nexus One and Buzz to Facebook Clone. Washington man robbed banks to fund “true patriot” movement. An isolated incident and not part of a larger pattern, we’re sure. Top Fox News sponsor Goldline under investigation by agencies local and federal for potential criminal
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