From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Prestigious Cheating

October 29, 2006

The Prestige

Year: 2006
Director: Christopher Nolan
Category: Drama
Media: Film

Rating: 3 out of 5

It was good — Jackman, Bale and Michael Caine are good, Christopher Nolan obviously knows what he’s doing as a director and shows it here, and Scarlett Johansson’s brief time on screen is decent, though not particularly memorable in any [...]

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The new look…

October 29, 2006

…you’re seeing here is a byproduct of the move from TypePad to WordPress. It’s a work in progress, but I’m hoping that the design direction I’ve chosen will make it easy for me to make improvements from time-to-time, when I have a spare moment.
If anyone reading out there has any comments or thoughts on [...]

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Finally leaving TypePad

October 26, 2006

They were good to me, but in time we’ve grown apart.  Adios, muchacho.

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Petronious Rising

October 4, 2006

…I went on to inquire from him how he accounted for the decadence of our own times and how it had happened that the fine arts had withered and painting had vanished almost without a trace. "It was the love of money," he replied, "that began our catastrophic decline. In earlier ages, merit and achievement [...]

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Best GOP Foley Justification

October 3, 2006

The winning entry comes to us from former Nixon speechwriter and TV personality Ben Stein:
If there were an Academy Award for Hypocrisy, the surefire favorite for 2006 would be the Democratic Party… We have a Republican man in Congress who sent e-mails to teenage boys asking them what they were wearing, and an [...]

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Dwight & Angela Get Their Own Commercial

October 2, 2006
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Tim Salmon’s Final Game

October 1, 2006

This is his first at-bat. Sadly, while he scored a run, he didn’t manage to get that 300th career HR.

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