In seasons 3 and 4, the show devolved to a softcore porn starring Denis Leary. Every episode another gorgeous woman was inexplicably fighting for the attention of drunken, already married, Tommy Gavin. Everything Tommy did was an act of selfish gratification, only mitigated by the occasional bout of self loathing.
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Rescuing “Rescue Me”
2 Sentence Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
When the more avid lit fan thinks of David Sedaris, they tend to think of writing that floors them with laughter, products of his caustic wit and sophisticated humor, traits that people have started to take for granted in Sedaris’s work, especially when they review his book “Me Talk Pretty One Day” as “his most sidesplitting work...
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Knight and Day and Mortal Coils
I went on Fandango and purchased tickets to Knight and Day. While I have no quantifiable way to prove this, I think my balls shrunk a little bit when I did it.
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The Reluctant English Major
If he directly quotes Noam Chomsky, just stick a cigarette in his mouth and give him beret with the word “douchebag” carefully stitched across the front. Tell him it’s French for “existentialism”…he’ll wear it.
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