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X-Files Rewatch: Season 3
September 23, 2012 – 11:39 AM | 9 Comments
<I>X-Files</I> Rewatch: Season 3

So, I started rewatching The X-Files from the beginning — or, really, “watching it,” because during the series’ run, I came in late and only watched casually. It holds up pretty well almost 20 years later, despite …

The NC Double Scrooge: Entertainment Division
December 10, 2010 – 11:43 AM | 101 Comments
The NC Double Scrooge: Entertainment Division

“How many people do you think Keckler and Bunting offended with this poll? Show us with your hands.”
Today’s poll focuses on all manner of media disappointments: Christmas movies you’ve never really gotten, songs you can’t …

When You’re Strange
July 11, 2010 – 12:58 PM | 37 Comments
<I>When You’re Strange</I>

My opinion of Jim Morrison is not a secret, but in case you’ve just arrived on Tomato Nation: hate. Morrison’s poet-shaman-of-the-bacchanal persona comes off to me as just that — a persona, sophomoric, obvious, contrived. …

Posters and vampires
December 8, 2009 – 9:16 PM | 9 Comments
Posters and vampires

From Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth:
Morrison was immortalized first by death at 27 and then by three generations of college kids who needed a poster to cover up a creepy-looking stain in their dorm …

21 Jump Street: “21 Jump Street, Part 2”
September 5, 2009 – 12:30 AM | 9 Comments
<I>21 Jump Street</I>: “21 Jump Street, Part 2”

Previously on 21 Jump Street: Stealth junkie Kenny Weckerle rumbled with the scenery; Officer Tom Hanson missed his dead non-gay dad, and had no sense of humor about looking young, which got him reassigned to …

21 Jump Street: “21 Jump Street, Part 1”
September 1, 2009 – 7:44 PM | 28 Comments
<I>21 Jump Street</I>: “21 Jump Street, Part 1”

Credits.Speaking of credit, I have to give it to the theme song: it’s unpleasant to listen to, and yet it gets stuck in my head every time.
A suburban family, the Weckerles, readies for supper.The dialogue …