Monthly Archives: November 2009
The Chap: A new favorite thing for the aspiring man of gentility
It never ceases to astound me what variety mankind is capable of; case in point: the wry, sly Chap magazine, dedicated to being a proper fellow. As a bi-monthly British magazine, The Chap celebrates “that increasingly marginalised and discredited species … Continue reading
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Censoring librarians: In defense of two outraged Kentucky pepperpots
It makes for an excellent story: A conservative prig gets his or her undies in a twist about someone’s artistic expression, then makes a ruckus to get it banned. This ancient blood sport inspires stories such as the recent “Pirate … Continue reading
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Sound the claxon! ANOTHER Nautilus movie room surfaces
OK, OK … breeeeeathe, Drew. Back in August I got all giggly and giddy when I found a home movie theater designed to look like Nemo’s Nautilus. I know! I feel the same way! If you thought that was the … Continue reading
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Consider my Titans Clashed
Oh my. I’ve already gotten giddy about the Clash of the Titans remake, so I’m not sad at all to place my peepers on the first trailer. Not only does this trailer include iconic scenes from the original like a … Continue reading
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‘Then We Came to the End’: Why an office farce deserved to be a National Book Award finalist
At first glance, it looks like a clown at a bris. The National Book Awards typically celebrate weighty and serious tomes about lives in reflection, marriages on the rocks, tragedies from which we must recover. Then, in 2007, along comes … Continue reading
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What Mark Twain said about adjectives
I don’t mean to pick on any journalist for writing a bad sentence. God knows I’m aware of the pressure of the newsroom deadline, and what acts of contortion must be performed before an inky metal plate can roll across … Continue reading
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Three-word review of the 2009 TV premiere of ‘V’
Vaudeville in vain. Nerds, let us not forget the wonders of 1983. Back then, this was the pinnacle of rad:
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