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So insufferably precious Precious – the movie that had champagne socialists all gooey in 2009 – finally found its way to my DVD...

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0May 15, 2010
A True and Accurate Account of Some Things I Have Been Watching Lately

A brief rundown of shows currently or recently airing around the world. Probably a few minimal spoilers.
0May 2, 2010
Seal Said it Best

Penny Arcade, sweetness, and clinical depression.
2March 21, 2010
Panopticon

I basically assume that I am under constant surveillance. I don’t mean that any agency or entity has any particular interest in watching me – my narcissism doesn’t quite reach...
0March 12, 2010
An Interview with Danny Yount

An interview with Danny Yount, title-sequence ninja responsible for some of the most awesome of title sequences.
0March 10, 2010
Lying for Jesus

Free-book receiver beware: that free copy of Origin of Species is practically a Chick tract.
0February 28, 2010
Must have an irony deficiency

In an old Looney Tunes cartoon, Daffy Duck, playing a sheriff, holds a gun to a crim’s face who proceeds to bite the gun in half. “Must not have had...
0February 13, 2010
Live Action Role Protesting

Whatever you’re doing right now, is it really more fascinating than Palestinian and Israeli human-rights protesters dressed up like characters from Avatar having tear gas fired at them? I didn’t...
0February 13, 2010
We don’t really know

Last Sunday at around 6pm I was sitting in a fish and chip shop in Tairua waiting for my order. It was humid and everyone in the place was wilting. ...
4February 4, 2010
A series of events

To begin with, let me explain that I am looking after a baby bird.

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