34 minutes ago by Mego

Just this morning, I was hanging around Awards Daily -- the web site dedicated to the Oscar roundup for the year -- and I took a poll as to what will be nominated for the National Board of Review. When I clicked in the drop-down box to vote, I realized there aren't many great movies from 2009. Some ...

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38 minutes ago by L.

for four years now, ever since andrew’s magical intervention in my computer, back at deerfield in 2005 (my soul graduating class) i have been a stumbler. if you are a serious stumbler, like me, you know that this is a soul-(and time-)consuming part of your every day life. stumbeupon is an add-on for ...

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1 hour ago by Rod

As a kid, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Disney cartoons and movies on VHS. I never liked the movie Fantasia and was sort of ambivalent towards The Jungle Book. One of my favorites, shamefully was Aladdin because I thought that Robin Williams was so funny as the Genie (and I still do). But, per usual ...

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2 hours ago by gudbuytjane

A preface: This post is not about Lady Gaga. Even though, sure she’s crossed my radar with troubling transphobic/intersex-marginalizing comments in the past, this post is about us/we/people in general: how we consume pop culture and how we politicize those choices. I have absolutely no interest in d ...

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2 hours ago by elrambo

All the longuers of yesterday somehow overwhelmed what should have been the day’s notable good news: my proposal for the 2010 SC4: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses has been accepted! What is my proposed paper? For several years, students in my Freshman Comp 2 classes have been analyzing Bu ...

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4 hours ago by dino-ray

If someone had to put a new spin on stop-motion movie, it had to be Wes Anderson. Actually, it makes sense. His movies ( Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited) all have this stop-motion caricature to them. They are quirky, humorous and as clever as the species of the title character of ...

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5 hours ago by sherry

Okay, okay, I give. I was going to like totally ignore Sarah Palin and her “book,” even bypassing a chance to indulge in schadenfreude when she got booed for stiffing some of her fans. But you have to go look at Rebecca’s index of indices. Miffed that Sarah Palin’s new book was published index-less, ...

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6 hours ago by hmb

Hip hop has been one of the most influential forces on the world since its popularization in the 80’s. Its ability to sway the masses and develop a culture has surprised and disappointed many who did not want it to last. Though its inception had many benefits to venting youth; through time its devel ...

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7 hours ago by HeyBuko

I walk past this every time I go to work. It creeps the hell out of me.

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8 hours ago by Robert Klimowicz

Black Friday marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Being the day after Thanksgiving, it is usually one of the busiest shopping days of the year, with stores opening in the wee hours of the morning to sell stuff that you already saw for 10 months straight. People line up for blocks wait ...

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