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About That Onion Tweet
I hadn’t planned on writing about this (I have a couple of podcasts that need editing and that will go up later this week), but two people have already asked me about this story. So, here goes. I don’t think … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, General Culture and News, Movies, Politics
Tagged Comedy, Commentary, Free Speech, Movies, Offensiveness, Politics, Quvenzhane Wallis, The Onion, The Oscars
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Unfortunate Placement
I mentioned recently that I had been working on a couple of research projects at the library. The details are unimportant (and boring), but the research involves perusing a lot of old newspapers on microfilm (or microfiche—I don’t know the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Pictures
Tagged 1970s, Blaxsploitation, Cultural Artifacts, Movies, Pictures, Superfly, The 70's, The Man
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Ranking the Dwarfs
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Snow White. Almost all of us are familiar with the Brothers Grimm collected story of the ongoing efforts of an evil queen to snuff out the … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, Disney, Humor, Movies, Silliness, Snow White, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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The Take-home Message from the SOPA Debate
Tracking the political discourse regarding SOPA proved to be quite instructive in ways I hadn’t anticipated. My own view on the proposed bill was that, while the aims weren’t entirely bad, some of the presumptions in the law overreached in … Continue reading
The Bark Side of the Force
Things have been a little long-winded around here of late. I wanted to try to accomplish two things with this post. First, drop the Brow-o-Meter down a notch or two. Mission accomplished. Secondly, I wanted to see how many categories … Continue reading
Posted in General Culture and News, Movies, Music, Sports, Television, Videos
Tagged Commercials, Dogs, General Culture and News, Movies, Music, Sports, Super Bowl, Television, Videos, Volkswagen
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Star Wars Revisited: The Extras
The final three discs of the Star Wars blu-ray set consist entirely of extras. Disc seven includes extras from Episodes I-III, disc eight covers the original trilogy, and disc nine has “documentaries and spoofs” spanning the entire series. Rather than … Continue reading
Star Wars Revisited: The Original Trilogy
Discs four, five, and six of the Star Wars Complete Saga blu-ray set correspond to the so-numbered episodes. As with the prequels, the picture and audio quality are very good. The movies look noticeably better even than the high-quality DVD … Continue reading
Star Wars Revisited: The Prequels
The recent release of the complete Star Wars film franchise on blu-ray serves as a good reason to revisit the films. Appropriately, this will actually be a trilogy of reviews, as there’s so much material with this set that trying … Continue reading
The Axis of Ego 
15 Things I Learned from the “G. I. Joe: The Movie” Commentary Track
Even at age 9, I didn’t know quite what to make of G. I. Joe: The Movie. It seemed at the time like I had been a G. I. Joe fan all my life, but the truth was that I was … Continue reading →