“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
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I could point to about a dozen fairly consequential plotholes, loose ends, and issues with the set-up, but I liked it a lot anyway. I almost prefer that the movie left so much for us to figure out instead of explaining everything; I get the feeling that, had it gotten made in the States, it would have run a half hour longer with exposition, and I’d rather have less than more.
(7/16/03)
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a lonely girl in possession of a library card must be in want of a twin. The child who spends a lot of time in books also spends …
Hey. I don’t know what we do now either. I DO know that we’ll need each other going forward, as we always have, for support, mutual aid, and information on where to get high-quality wide-calf …
