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Adventures In Pointed DVR-Pausing
January 11, 2011 – 8:39 PM | 30 Comments
Adventures In Pointed DVR-Pausing

The entire purpose of your flimsy-looking contraption is to strengthen the abdominals. AbdomiNals. Not one of the artistes responsible for either the '80s-vintage illustrative graphics or the pornishly loving footage of the positively ropey-looking "after" …

21 Jump Street: "Don't Pet The Teacher"
December 11, 2009 – 8:00 PM | 8 Comments
<I>21 Jump Street</I>: "Don't Pet The Teacher"

"Shut Up, Penhall" Count: 1 0! It's a Christmas miracle!
Nighttime at a high school whose physical plant is modeled after the Taj Mahal.A synthesizer plinks disapprovingly as a mysterious hand pink-spray-paints the phrase "Weintraub bites …

The Vacationing: July 2009 Edition
July 26, 2009 – 9:53 PM | 22 Comments
The Vacationing: July 2009 Edition

Typhus, the Brooklyn Dodgers of Flatbush, lesser Kennedys, seminal animé (say that five times fast), Argentine nutbars, and cod on the Cape — plus the N Cereal AA and the fall contest.These stories and more, …