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TN Movie Meet-Up: Steeeeeeeeeve!
March 25, 2012 – 11:05 AM | 10 Comments
TN Movie Meet-Up: Steeeeeeeeeve!

Thanks so much to everyone who came out for The Trouble With BlissĀ and post-movie pints — such fun to meet everyone and talk sports, stripper names, and more. And to that waywardly hilarious soul wailing …

Let’s go out to the lobby — and get ourselves a Couch Baron
March 20, 2012 – 12:14 PM | 26 Comments
Let’s go out to the lobby — and get ourselves a Couch Baron

UPDATED MARCH 23: The inaugural TN Movie Meetup is set! We’ll see The Trouble With BlissĀ on Saturday, March 24 at 3:30 PM — then step around the corner to Blue & Gold Tavern for a …

TN Read-Along #14: The Great Influenza Discussion Thread
March 20, 2012 – 2:37 AM | 18 Comments
TN Read-Along #14: <I>The Great Influenza</I> Discussion Thread

Institutions are a strange mix of the mass and the individual. They abstract. They behave according to a set of rules that substitute both for individual judgments and for the emotional responses that occur whenever …

Myra Breckinridge: Beyond the Valley of the Vidal
March 19, 2012 – 4:44 PM | 6 Comments
<I>Myra Breckinridge</I>: Beyond the Valley of the Vidal

You could view Myra Breckinridge as a nervy meta-commentary on identity in Hollywood, on narrative recycling, on the tragic self-regard of the heroine of Sunset Boulevard, on the rejections of the aged and the outlier. …

Movie Meetup: The Trouble With Bliss
March 10, 2012 – 2:05 PM | 19 Comments
Movie Meetup: <I>The Trouble With Bliss</I>

Edited 3/7 to add: tickets on sale now, clickety click oo-ahhhh!
I’m juuuuust about ready to start watching movies again; why not start with The Trouble With Bliss! Produced by the Couch Baron and starring Michael …

Death Is Not An Option: Hoarders Cleaning Specialist Edition
March 1, 2012 – 10:51 PM | 35 Comments
Death Is Not An Option: <I>Hoarders</I> Cleaning Specialist Edition

Tough call. I love Matt Paxton’s podcast; I love sassy Matt Paxton, period. And Cory Chalmers is maybe still trying to figure out his facial hair (that goatee was catastrophic), plus…a grown man named “Cory.” …

TN Read-Along #14: The Great Influenza
February 27, 2012 – 4:08 PM | 14 Comments
TN Read-Along #14: <I>The Great Influenza</I>

(cue “I don’t see what’s so great about it” jokes)
Hey, remember everything that ISN’T the Oscars Death Race? Me neither! Awesome! …I’m so sorry about the protracted service interruption, guys. I’ve missed you, and all …

Oscars Death Race: Last day
February 26, 2012 – 10:12 AM | 18 Comments
Oscars Death Race: Last day

UPDATE 2:30 PM
Sarah 61, Oscars 0
Thanks for all the support and comments, and a hat tip to everyone else who raced along with me. I am THRILLED that the third time was the charm; consider …

Oscars Death Race: Less than a week
February 20, 2012 – 12:42 PM | 8 Comments
Oscars Death Race: Less than a week

Oh, it’s about to get ugly. …Okay, “uglier.”

Oscars 2012 Death Race Update: 2 weeks to go
February 12, 2012 – 10:11 PM | 10 Comments
Oscars 2012 Death Race Update: 2 weeks to go

Since we last convened:
Anonymous
Footnote
Drive
Kung Fu Panda 2
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
and a Best Actor overview