Archive for March, 2010

I wanted to ask that you add your own personal touch to this course, and show the hell up on time.
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A plethora of stars in a Shakespearean classic. It’s Hamlet gone dark.
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What follows is an account of my 8-day spring break vacation, spent at the ski resort Whistler/Blackcomb in British Columbia, Canada. It’s just me and my parents. I am 30 years old. Single. Depressed. God rapes us in mysterious ways. For those of you who may know me and my parents, I must say,...
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Spaceman Blues by Brian Francis Slattery With an orgy of adjectives and one billion different characters, Slattery’s love/superhero/survivalist novel about a man searching for his lost lover in a colorfully futuristic New York will set your hair on fire with the sheer volume of verbiage.  Not often does an author fail to repeat themselves...
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I know you’ve all been sitting there for 7 1/2 months, listening to your Only Ones download, obsessively hitting refresh, waiting for this series’ next installment.  So here it is, the next ten songs you should discover, or re-discover: 90. Daniel Johnston ~ Grievances Any Johnston song has been made at least as much...
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*SPOILER ALERT* The Da Vinci Code “Why’s he doing that to himself?  Looks painful.” “Well, at least they won’t bother with the sequel.” Angels and Demons *Snoring* Inglourious Basterds “Mmm.  They spelled it wrong.  I just noticed that.” “Wait, did they just shoot him?  Wasn’t that Hitler?  I thought that was Hitler.” “When did...
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Craig Thompson’s Blankets depicts the wonderful confusion of falling in love for the first time.  Awkward and romantic, his writing and artwork both enchant.
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The mantra of the NCAA tournament is “survive and advance.”  It occurs to me that this is a bit of a strange mantra.  The notion is that, in light of the fact that it’s a once-and-done tournament, a win-and-move-on or lose-and-go-home, any loss no matter how noble is useless and any win no matter...
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After Oskar Schell walked me around New York City, I closed my copy of Jonathan Safran-Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and wrote this note on the inside cover, “a must read.” Idiosyncratic characters, multiple perspectives, drawings, colored mark-up, quirky dialogue, an honest reaction to a catastrophic event (9/11), what more could you want...
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Girl cares so much about a dog that she says it will always be the most important thing in her life? Cut! I can tell you from personal experience that it sucks being with someone who cares more about the dog(s) than you. The one saving grace about the girl already having the dog...
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