Lenny should be required viewing for anyone interested in the First Amendment, racism, LGBTQ issues, or life in the 1960s. I’d go so far as to recommend that all public school seniors watch Dustin Hoffman portray Lenny Bruce and his fight against censorship as part of a US history or American government class –...
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2SR: Lenny, a Lenny Bruce biopic directed by Bob Fosse
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows New Trailer
What do you think? Will you be going to the theater on November 19th?
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Essentially Sophomoric: Grocery Shopping
Now that I live in an apartment and no longer rely on a dorm cafeteria or a sorority chef for my meals, groceries are my biggest enemy. Generally, my roommates and I go grocery shopping once a week. We stock up on sliced turkey (2+ pounds), fruits, veggies, and other delicious items. When I...
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Fall 2010: TV Guide – His/Her Edition
Rather than fight over the tv, my significant other bought a second TiVo. Here's what we're planning to watch this season.
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The Divine Snooki
People have called her a troll. They've compared her physique to that of a bowling ball. Me? I think she's kind of pretty, in a flabbergasting, getting arrested for being annoying, slipper-posing-as-sneaker kind of way.
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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: School Supply Season!
For me, September marks the beginning of the most wonderful time of the year – school supply shopping season.
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Rescuing “Rescue Me”
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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J-Mits, Finally a Twitter We Can Understand
I just want to kill myself when my parents send me forwards like this.
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The Grey Lady Talks Trash
Reality TV is nothing like looking in from the outside of high society—even the depths of high society.
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Why Julian Wilson might be the Greatest Athlete in the World
Here's surfing: feeling small in the natural world, which is always healthy for the individualistic humanoid; feeling awe, which is tied into feeling small but with the kind of reverence that the atheist can't find in churches and shouldn't find in vague notions of "Eastern mysticism"; or it's a reaffirmation for the believer, in...
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