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Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself [The Wire]
Closed Published by eightparts March 8th, 2008 on Eight PartsFrom McSweeney’s:
YOU’VE GOT TO WATCH THE WIRE
by Scott Blaszac
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For five years, I’ve begged you to watch the best show on television, but you didn’t listen. That’s why I’ve kidnapped you, my closest friends and family members, and locked you here inside my apartment. I know how tired you all are of me […]
Recent Reads: Then We Came To An End [verdict: awesome]
Closed Published by eightparts February 22nd, 2008 on Eight PartsRead this book. That’s really the only important sentence in this review.
If you need further convincing, I started this book with a library copy. 70 pages in I went and bought it. If you know me you know that it’s not possible to be cheaper than I am. But whatever fraction of a cent made […]
In an effort to help my wife elude the firewall at her work I’m posting these pictures of two small girls locked in a pre-natal cage match for supremacy.
Can I Be Reincarnated as AMC: Breaking Bad
Closed Published by eightparts January 22nd, 2008 on Eight PartsWhile the networks are hitting you over the head with Gladiators and reruns AMC has quietly followed up it’s Golden Globe award winning first original series, Mad Men, with something off to an equally stellar start, Breaking Bad. Starring the former Malcom in the Middle head of household as a desperate chemistry teacher who’s somehow […]
Unnecessary Movie Reviews: Cloverfield
Closed Published by eightparts January 18th, 2008 on Eight PartsA good way to tell if you’re in the target demo for any movie is to see if the previews are for the kind of movies you’d like to see. By the third preview before Cloverfield I knew I was in bad shape.
Basically, you’ve got the Blair Witch Project with an effects budget and some […]
Unnecessary Movie Reivews: Charlie Wilson’s War
Closed Published by eightparts January 17th, 2008 on Eight PartsJust looking at the pieces, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and an Aaron Sorkin script, it’s hard to imagine this going wrong, and it doesn’t, but when you see what Hoffman is able to do with his role it makes you wonder what kind of movie might have resulted with other actors in […]
Steve Martin’s memoir about his career in stand up comedy is the kind of thing you could read while standing in the bookstore, both because it’s that engaging and that short. It’s a fascinating look not just at the mechanics behind a life in comedy, but the life that led to it, and away from […]
If you’ve tried to return something already you probably know this. Giving a gift receipt is like not giving a receipt at all. Stores will take back the item but only let you walk out with a nifty gift card. Of course, the last thing you got from this store you liked so much you’re […]
About 2/3 of the way through Fieldwork the narrator says, Now I know this is going to seem like another pointless digression, but trust me. Unfortunately by that time my trust had run out.
Sort of an anthropological murder mystery, Fieldwork tries to get to the source of a mystery by laying out the histories of […]