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TV Question Qorner: Midseason Report Card A-B
October 24, 2011 – 1:40 PM | 9 Comments
TV Question Qorner: Midseason Report Card A-B

ANTM: All-Stars. I had tagged out of the show a few cycles ago because I couldn’t take Tyra’s unleavened self-aggrandizement. It’s still egregious, but because the girls have gone through the process before, she can’t …

Rays of Light: 2011 Division Series Open Thread
October 1, 2011 – 2:10 PM | 41 Comments
Rays of Light: 2011 Division Series Open Thread

It’s the moooooost wonderful tiiiiiiime of the…you know, I think I make that joke vis-a-vis baseball when pitchers and catchers report, too. And on Opening Day. Well, the hell with it. It’s true.
Welcome to your …

Big Country Little Car Tour II, Day 1: Brooklyn NY to Akron OH
July 26, 2011 – 8:45 AM | 17 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour II, Day 1: Brooklyn NY to Akron OH

It took an hour just to get out of the state of New York. Not far into Pennsylvania, I ran into the drenching rain we’d waited on for days back home. Visibility dropped to 20 …

The Crushed Film Festival presents: Rounders
July 14, 2011 – 4:37 PM | 15 Comments
The Crushed Film Festival presents: <I>Rounders</I>

The Movie: Rounders
The Crush Object: Goran Visnjic
The Story: Law student Mike (Matt Damon) is also a savant poker player torn between his natural ability at — and affinity for — the card-playing life and a …

TV Question Qorner: Hair, Die
June 16, 2011 – 1:28 PM | 10 Comments
TV Question Qorner: Hair, Die

Law & Order: D’Onofrionics.
Rocco’s Dinner Party. I loved The Restaurant. Rocco’s unique brand of petulant flabbery is riveting to me, for some reason. RDP isn’t terribly promising, though; based on the single episode I’ve seen, …

Paragraph of the Day: Shut Up, Bentley Williams
June 14, 2011 – 2:55 PM | 24 Comments
Paragraph of the Day: Shut Up, Bentley Williams

I tagged back out of the Bachelor franchise after the most recent Bradelor! DUN! season. Life offers so many organic opportunities to feel bored, enraged by sexism, or so uncomfortable that I long for a …

Dueling Dragon Fists Triple Feature
May 3, 2011 – 11:36 AM | 7 Comments
Dueling Dragon Fists Triple Feature

I lost track of Duel of the Iron Fist‘s plot about halfway through; I understood that Tuberculosis Guy had betrayed the hero, but only because the shot set-ups made it obvious from the moment he …

21 Jump Street: “Blindsided”
March 21, 2011 – 4:26 PM | 8 Comments
<I>21 Jump Street</I>: “Blindsided”

The Plot: Hanson and Penhall go undercover in one of their habitual guises, the McQuaid brothers, for one of Jump Street’s habitual drills: buy drugs in increasing quantities from a couple of middlemen in an …

Bradelor! DUN!: Boo, Urns
February 15, 2011 – 12:23 PM | 5 Comments
Bradelor! DUN!: Boo, Urns

At long and uncomfortable last, the Bachelor producers allowed Brad to eject Brows McGee last night — and yet the episode still dragged, to the point where we spend most of this week’s Bradelor! DUN! …

Bradelor! DUN!: Hallowed Malls
February 1, 2011 – 3:49 PM | 7 Comments
Bradelor! DUN!: Hallowed Malls

In today’s installment of Bradelor! DUN!, Miss Alli and I have sync-ing issues; Emily has NASCAR issues; Chris Harrison has sensitivity and disingenuity issues; and Lisa’s hair has the same issues it always does…for the …