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If you’re like me and missed How I Met Your Mother the first time around, Lifetime’s website presents you with the chance to catch-up on old seasons (now on Season 4). In addition, in case you missed the premiere, Season 8 of Project Runway started last week – (OMFG, Casanova?!) – and you can watch...
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Having recently discovered this multi-media gem from 2004 at one of my favorite thrift stores for a mere $2, I’m pleased to find Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel/journal-entry style documenting the pubescent sex-capades of her fifteen-year-old character Minnie Goetze and her subsequent loves, losses and intense loneliness so all-consuming that I read Diary of a Teenage...
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The funny thing about dreams is that it's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
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At the Free Library of Philadelphia, David Mitchell told audience members that he is proud of his books in reverse order of publication – e.g., The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), then Black Swan Green (2007), then Cloud Altas (2004) – except Ghostwritten (2001), his first novel, would probably come before his second...
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Crap. I told you so.
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For anyone who is skeptical about the second installment in any series, Catching Fire, the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, gives you reason to believe that some stories are best told in parts. Catching Fire satiates readers who crave a second-helping of the sadistic Hunger Games, set in the...
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One Day, the latest book from David Nicholls (Starter for Ten, The Understudy), snapshots the lives of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew – Em and Dex, Dex and Em – on St. Swithun’s Day over twenty years beginning with their first encounter on the night of their graduation from the University of Edinburgh.  A...
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Listen, if this was as dumb as you think it is, then why would I have spent the last hour at my desk, laughing like a drunk baby?  Just click “play” and prepare yourself to enter a 47-second world where cats act like people and then look directly into the camera; you won’t be...
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No, James Cameron has nothing to do with this one, thank Zeus’s beard. Check out the Emmy Award winning anime on which M. Night Shyamalan is basing his newest labor of arrogance love and you won’t be disappointed by the clever dialogue, excellent pacing and plot, and truly unique storytelling, or you’ll have all...
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Created and hosted by the super cute mixed media artist Thu Tran, Food Party is an eleven-minute morsel of the most absurd foodie fantasy brought to life on the Independent Film Channel. Every Tuesday night, from her cardboard kitchen set, Tran arbitrarily renders recipes from leftovers, candy, condiments and sometimes the murdered corpses of...
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