The Black Friday Games
Along with “Alice’s Restaurant” and WKRP in Cincinnati’s “Turkeys Away,” I feel this should be in seasonal rotation: Stay safe out there, people!
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Christmas According to [Insert Film Director Here]
Everyone appears to have a favorite movie to watch on Christmas, whether or not it’s a Christmas movie (like, say, Die Hard). But what if you wanted a Christmas movie by a well-known director? Fourgrounds Media Inc. and Suitcase in Point Theatre Company have your back:
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Children’s Books are Dangerous
As I continue to celebrate Banned Books Week 2024, I feel I need to follow up yesterday’s post about Kurt Vonnegut’s “dignified fury” with mockery… and when they’re cooking with gas, few folks mock as well as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Shanna Walsh, who as a former middle school teacher knows a thing or two about the dangers facing kids, gives us a list of children’s books that will make their brains rot… or possibly their…
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International Talk Like William Shatner Day
I may have overlooked it, but I don’t think I’ve previously done a blog post about a little known holiday today. Sure, you knew it was William Shatner’s birthday today. Sure, you knew that, at age 92, he’s still making movies and even being blasted into space. But you might not know that today is International Talk Like William Shatner Day, a minor holiday started over 10 years ago, but really deserves to be a…
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I’m Afraid the Force is with this Mashup, Dave
Look, I wasn’t looking for this. You weren’t looking for this. But the Internet finds ways of creating things we weren’t looking for. So enjoy one of the classics of sci-fi (2001) cited occasionally by some for why they don’t like sci-fi mashed up with another one of the classics of sci-fi (Star Wars) cited continually by too many as something that “ahktshually, isn’t science fiction.”
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A Day that will Live in Honest Trailers
There are many ways to remember the “Day that Will Live in Infamy.“ Watching the 2001 film, Pearl Harbor, is arguably not one of them. Honest Trailers has my back on this. I mean, it does inexplicably find a way to cram Spitfires in there, but come on!
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Prep for Cookie-Making (and Eating) Season!
A holiday tradition for many people is cookie making, which is all well and good, but what to do about all those cookies once they’re made? Here, we learn from the undisputed master of cookie eating.
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This Viking Has Dibs on the Library
So, for the past few years, there’s been a particular cartoon that’s made the rounds on social media which friends invariably send to me. I mean, besides being an avid reader, several members of my family are or have been librarians and are all in favor of libraries. And, let’s be honest, in this scenario, I would totally do this: some of my Viking brethren forget to pillage before they burn. Sure you may have…
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Sci Fi versus Fantasy
A meme tickled Twitter users’ fancy late last month and for good reason: it was a pair of pithy comments contrasting science fiction and fantasy and skewering the related tropes for both. Mignon Fogarty has a good collection over at the Grammar Girl, but be warned! You’ll start wanting to do your own. To whit: Sci Fi is this blog on an encrypted server you’ll need some cyberpunk hacker to access. Fantasy is this blog…
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Stranger Things’ Subtitles are the Squelchiest
Maybe it’s the overwhelming melting pot of 80s that speaks to my Gen X self. Maybe it’s the fact that this past season has included the best Munsons since Logan (the quality and fate of characters named Munson throughout media is a post for another time). In any case, I’ve very much enjoyed the latest installments of Stranger Things, what we were almost certain was the last season, but… it’s not. So many fun touches…