Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Tonight: Our Duly Selected President Lays Out How He's Going to Try and Destroy the Country This Year.

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Some bad news to keep everyone from feeling too good, (because I know that's a danger). One: Bush gives his State of the Union tonight. ...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Match Point, A Literary Smackdown of Sorts, and an Illusory Near-Miss in the Skies Over England: Your Monday Inanity

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Well, it's Monday again. Hope everyone had a super-awesome weekend. Mine was pretty good. I saw the new Woody Allen movie, Match Poin...
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Friday, January 27, 2006

Hagrid is Real, and He Is A Well-Read Russian With Violent Tendencies

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In my daily travels through the vast internet-o-scape, I came across this photo on Drudge. Like Satan, (or Al Pacino in The Devil's Adv...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, For Your Consideration, I Give You: My Brother!

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To help make up for my awesomely long James Frey post yesterday (literary hoaxterism is like a scab I can't stop picking), I'm posti...
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Today's James Frey Post, Re-Edited Down to Readable Size

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James Frey went on Oprah today, and in a rare live broadcast, she essentially humiliated him in front of millions of people for the crime of...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

I Think James Frey Would Rather Have Had Two Anesthetic-Free Root Canals Than Go Through What He Went Through On Today's Episode of Oprah

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I just finished watching an hour of supremely relevant, squirming, mouth-agape, confessional, brilliant television. Not TV mind you, (as in...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

If Your Idea of a Good Time is Watching Desperate, Aggressive Comedians Telling One Long, Sick Joke Over and Over, This Post's For You

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I rented and watched The Aristocrats today. The Aristocrats , for those who haven't heard of this thing, is a documentary that Penn Ji...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

How Did He Ever Write a Post About Lolita?

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Well, Peggy's back from China finally. Her plane arrived from JFK airport at 10:38PM after her first plane, slated to arrive at 6PM, br...
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Monday, January 23, 2006

Since It's Monday Here's an Exhaustive Chronicle of What I Did This Weekend. Commence Napping.

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Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was moderately eventful, partly due to my own initiative not to let myself get bored s...
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Friday, January 20, 2006

The Landscape of Horror Cinema Has Never Been the Same. Here, In Its Blood-Chilling Entirety, The Landmark 1997 Classic, "INCIDENT AT SICUANI"

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For those of you interested in revisiting the world of 9 years ago, I give you "Incident at Sicuani", the 10-minute short video I ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Was Michael Crichton a Raging Homophobe Back in 1972? The Issue is Examined, if only Superficially. Also: Shatner Sings

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It's clear from the comments on the last post that no one is willing to get on the Gore train with me. That's cool. To each their...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Wouldn't the World Be Such a Better Place if This Guy Were in the White House? It's Not Too Late. 2008's Just Around the Corner

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This is Al Gore. For the last 5 years, he's been our nation's shadow president. When Bush does something terrible, we left-leaning...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

How Desperate Is the Judge Judy Show for Material? So Desperate They Wanted Judy Sheindlin to Hear THIS Case. From the Sad but True Files

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All right. By popular request, here is the Judge Judy story. Worth all the hubbub? You be the judge. (pun intended). A couple of weeks a...
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Monday, January 16, 2006

24's Starting Up Again, American Idol Premieres Tomorrow -- Feels Like I'm Back in California

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Happy Monday everyone. (Yeah, Monday's almost over, but whatever. It's the Monday post.) Not a whole lot going on in the world of...
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Friday, January 13, 2006

Do We Even Need Senate Hearings Anyway?

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This is Samuel J. Alito and his family, circa, I don't know. A ways back? Not much really happened in the news this week, which I gue...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

A Mini-Review of Fun With Dick and Jane and the Very Last Word (this week) on the James Frey Imbroglio

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Peggy called me this morning from Shanghai. She'd just flown in from the rural city of Yangshuo and was getting ready to sleep. It...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

This is JT LeRoy. Take a Good Look. How Did Anyone Ever Think This Chick Was a Dude? I mean, seriously. (Also, more James Frey Stuff)

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Not to keep harping on this James Frey and JT Leroy business, (ok, I'm harping on it), but I thought I'd throw some links up from ar...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

As Though Frey Weren't Enough -- JT LeRoy Is Exposed As Yet Another Literary Fraud

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In additon to James Frey's outing as a fabulist posing as a memoirist, I learn that on Monday, the New York Times published an article r...
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Monday, January 09, 2006

This Is James Frey. He and Oprah Say he Wrote a Memoir. Turns Out It's Really a Novel. Is He Going to Give Everyone Their Money Back?

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Something very interesting appeared on-line today. The Smoking Gun website, which usually runs funny mugshots of ridiculous suspects doing ...
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Friday, January 06, 2006

An Admittedly Weak Friday Blog from Oxford, Georgia

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Hey errybody! I'm up at my folks' new house up in Oxford today. I got lost on the way up here -- of course. I did a Google map but t...
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