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Review: The Incredible Hulk

By On November 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Pop Culture, Reviews

I skipped The Incredible Hulk in theaters because I was fully expecting to be disappointed, but my son really wanted to see it and Iron Man was unexpectedly good, so we picked up the DVD and I was pleasantly surprised.

Ed Norton isn’t as dynamic an actor as Robert Downey, Jr., [...]

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Apology Unnecessary

By On October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics, Pop Culture, Publishing

There’s a bit of a tempest in a teapot happening over at Montclair State University thanks to a “controversial” episode of the Keith Knight comic strip, The K Chronicles, that was published last week in the student newspaper, the Montclarion, and included the word “nigger”.

Twice!

Well, kind of…

Seemingly lost [...]

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The Most Fantastic Genre

By On October 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Pop Culture

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PopCultureShock posted this great little clip about the new Blue Beetle — Mexican-American Jaime Reyes — and Junot Diaz’ Oscar Wao, wherein Diaz notes:

“The most fantastic genre can’t keep up, or refuses to keep up, with how much our country has changed. And so people can dream about aliens, and they [...]

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What If…FOX hosted the debate?

By On October 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics, Pop Culture

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It’s like a mash-up of so many of my favorite things!

PS: I’ll be back on a regular posting schedule, here and on Spindle, very soon.  Seriously.

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I’m Not Dead

By On April 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics, Pop Culture

…but I certainly feel like I’ve been buried alive lately!

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Speaking, tangentially, of being careful what you wish for*, I’d totally understand if Obama was really close to just saying “screw y’all” and handing the nomination to Clinton. Hunter S. Thompson’s sentiment – paraprashing someone else, I believe — “In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and [...]

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