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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Review: Kiss Each Other Clean by Iron & Wine
While explaining my musical tastes to my friend Paul this weekend, I said that I generally placed more importance on elements like melodic line, harmonic progression and song structure than on things like timbre (what instruments, whose voice) and texture … Continue reading
Review: Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars: A New Hope
I think that George Lucas, after years of fielding questions about Alderaanian nerf-herding and Dathomirian rancor-riding, genuinely hates his fans. As proof, I submit the addition of Jabba the Hutt into the “special edition” of Star Wars: A New Hope. … Continue reading
Review: Earwax
Earwax is like smoke alarms or ushers during movies: all serve a purpose, but if you notice they’re present, something wrong. I’m sure my earwax does all sorts of useful things while I’m not looking, like trapping ear typhoid viruses … Continue reading
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List: Episodes to Hook Your Friends
Those of us who watch television often find ourselves having conversations like this. I’m addicted to trying to convert people to consume the media that I have consumed, but it’s not always an easy task. If you can convince a … Continue reading
Posted in List, Television
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Review: An Altar in the World
For an articulate author who is clearly tickled by good wordsmithery, Barbara Brown Taylor is remarkably humble about the power of her words. When discussing deep theological issues, she admits that “there is a good chance that my words will … Continue reading
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Review: Reviews of a $118,000 Watch
What you would you do if you were given $100,000? Travel the world? Start a business? Buy 10,000 people a meal at Steak ‘n’ Shake? Or perhaps you would choose to spend it on this: That’s right, you could get … Continue reading
Posted in A, Literature
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Review: Snow Days
First, I should state that I love my job working at a school and am grateful to have it. The kids, parents, and teachers are all wonderful, and the Waldorf philosophy is super cool. All that said… SNOW DAYYYYYYYYY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! … Continue reading
Posted in A, Miscellaneous
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Review: Reasoning With Vampires
My challenge to you: whoever you are, write, sing, paint, dance, and whittle without worrying overly much if you are any good. For even if you are awful, terrible art can spawn interesting things. Consider Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight books. They … Continue reading
Posted in C, Literature
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Review: 2010
Two thousand ten was a year of transition, of driving figuratively and literally from one place to the next. After a certain point in life, you see, people stop telling you what to do next, and I was fairly unprepared … Continue reading
Posted in B, Miscellaneous
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Review: Tangled
If you’re the Walt Disney Animation Studio, you probably want to pretend that the last ten years didn’t happen. A slew of critical and commercial bummers (Home on the Range, Treasure Planet) caused Disney to announce that they would be … Continue reading