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The Stephen King Movie Problem
November 14, 2005 – 10:58 AM | 13 Comments

[Warning: May contain various horror movie/Stephen King book spoilers. If you’re sensitive to those, turn back now.]
My Netflix list is so crazy long right now that the software won’t let me add any more titles …

Girls’ Bike Club X: C’mon, Get Happy
November 7, 2005 – 10:57 AM | No Comment

Wing Chun: Hello?
Sarah: Hi! Um, so, are you…eating? Right now?
Wing Chun: No. Why? Who.
Sarah: Have you eaten? Recently?
Wing Chun: Well…how recently is “recently”?
Sarah: You know. Recently. Like since, say, June.
Wing Chun: This involves Michael Jackson. …

“That’s Good Stuff! His Kung-Fu’s Good!”
October 10, 2005 – 10:53 AM | No Comment

What I know about kung-fu movies wouldn’t fill a thimble, including whether I should call them “kung-fu movies” in the first place. The correct term is probably “martial-arts feeeeelms,” and no doubt I will receive …

Rating And Raving, Part 2
August 22, 2005 – 10:45 AM | No Comment

When last we left our heat-addled heroine, she’d undertaken a defense of Forrest Gump, the last of which she fears she has not heard…
Heh. I stand by that position, although I probably shouldn’t, but let’s …

Rating And Raving
August 15, 2005 – 10:47 AM | One Comment

You can ask the Couch Baron — the minute Trog mentioned the other night that Premiere had a 20 Most Overrated Movies list, I clapped my hands and wiggled in my seat like a little …

Girls’ Bike Club IX: Negative, Ghost Rider, The Pattern Is Full
June 20, 2005 – 10:11 AM | One Comment

Wing Chun: Hello?
Sarah: Oh, hello.
Wing Chun: Oh. Hello.
Sarah: You know…
Wing Chun: I know. Oh, how I know.
Sarah: And the thing is…
Wing Chun: Mmmmmm-hmm.
Sarah: Because I just…I…
Wing Chun: …If I may?
Sarah: Please.
Wing Chun: SHUT. UP. TOM. …

Good Humor
June 13, 2005 – 10:10 AM | No Comment

I can understand how the recent heat wave might have caught the deli owners of the city unawares in the ice-cream-novelty department. After all, March lasted approximately two months longer than it’s supposed to, and …

Dear Retail Fashion Industry
June 6, 2005 – 10:09 AM | 4 Comments

Dear Retail Fashion Industry,
I want to stay together. I do. I want this relationship to work. It’s because I want it to work — and not merely out of laziness, as you may reasonably have …

Empire State
May 23, 2005 – 10:08 AM | No Comment

The following essay is riddled with both Sith spoilers and process discussion, so if you want to avoid either, bail out now.
So, Revenge of the Sith. Where to begin, really.
The early eighties is as good …

Girls’ Bike Club VIII: You Had Me At “Heh”
May 2, 2005 – 10:05 AM | One Comment

Wing Chun: Hello?
Sarah: …Dude.
Wing Chun: …I know.
Sarah: Dude.
Wing Chun: I know.
Sarah: You know that scene in Jason and the Argonauts with the skeletons?
Wing Chun: I…don’t think so.
Sarah: With the, where they’re swarming?
Wing Chun: I’d remember …