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Cookie dough vs. black raspberry/Oregon blackberry. My bias here is obvious — thanks to my mom’s quart-a-week habit back in the winter of ’73, when you …

It’s a very good movie; it’s not a great movie. Conventional wisdom is that Scorsese got the Oscar for The Departed that he’d actually earned for GoodFellas (or Raging Bull); I can accept that, and …

The 90210 reruns on SOAPnet have just cycled back to the beginning — and you can read S1 recaps at The HeldenFiles.
You can also get yourself a big bag of Hoffernalia while browsing the Hoff’s …
Voting for Flight 4 is now closed. Headed into the Round of 32: vanilla; Irish cream; Chubby Hubby; raspberry sherbet; praline (upset); peanut butter cup; grasshopper pie/Thin Mint; and coffee.
Round of 32 will appear …
Proceeding to the next round: strawberry; pistachio (upset); lime sherbet; Neapolitan; Rocky Road/heavenly hash; peanut butter and chocolate; dulce de leche; and chocolate chocolate chip. No huge surprises there.
Flight 4 stays open ’til tomorrow …
Prevailing flavors: cookies and cream; fudge ripple (barely, in a minor upset); sticky toffee pudding (upset); Heath Bar Crunch; Key Lime Pie (upset); both regular and mint chocolate chips; and rainbow sherbet. This will …

News of the N.C. Double Scoop: Flight 1 voting has closed. Proceeding to the next round: cookie dough; black raspberry/Oregon blackberry (upset) (well, it was an upset; I am the opposite of upset about it); …

Tropic Thunder seemed almost guaranteed to disappoint, because I couldn’t wait to see it and really wanted to love it.It didn’t disappoint, and I did love it, but not for the reasons I’d expected to.
The …

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1 Vanilla vs. 16 olive oil. You do have some vanilla-loathers out there, but I can’t imagine they’d make this one close.
8 Irish cream vs. 9 Gold Medal Ribbon. …

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1 Strawberry vs. 16 bacon. Bacon ice cream isn’t appetizing to me — even if I could eat it (can’t; vegequarian), I’d probably pass, because it just sounds way too …