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Mon, Jun 30

The World According to Garp (Book)
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# 'Office' schedules Amy Ryan Tremendous news! She was fantastic in the season finale. (Also good to see Lieberstein stays on even though Toby left.)
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Sat, Jun 28

WALL-E (Movie)
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Fri, Jun 27

Gunga Din (Netflix)
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# Beverly Hills Chihuahua Trailer Somebody wrestle Disney's "greenlight" stamp away from the kid in the helmet.
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# Goodbye George Carlin by Louis C.K. I was never a huge Carlin fan. (I suppose I'm too young, too square, or just too stupid.) But this is a great perspective on him.
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Thu, Jun 26

WALL-E (Movie)
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# J.C. Penney wails over sexy, funny fake ad Hm... a day or two of free buzz among a demographic years younger than J.C. Penney ever reaches – sounds like a fake fake ad to me.
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Wed, Jun 25

# An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant Schadenfreude and Windows-bashing aside, this is a fun read. Gates is a brilliant man with considerable inside knowledge, but certain computing experiences are just universal.
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# The Day the Bloggers Came to Town Staggering attractiveness incongruity between TV's Jeff Donovan and visiting TV scribes.
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# Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less. "Kill it, lion Jesus!"
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Tue, Jun 24

Get Smart (Movie)
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# Amazon.com Customer Reviews of a $501 $500 stereo cable Andy says the serious ones are funny, too, but I haven't found a serious one yet.
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# A wire coat hanger sounds just as good as pricey Monster cable An old audiophile post clears up the facts about expensive stereo components.
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Mon, Jun 23

# Sarah Silverman, Norm Macdonald headline Match Game reboot I think I just soiled my underpants.
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# Study: Bottling Up Emotions Can Be Better I stand corrected: it turns out Superman can swallow the bomb. (That, or you can come up with a "study" to prove anything.)
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# Antiheroes Reminds me of a Saunders book I read: passably funny idea, taken too far until all the fun is ground out of it.
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Sat, Jun 21

Foucault's Pendulum (Book)
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Tue, Jun 17

# A peek at "Presto" I'm in hard-core spoiler lockdown for WALL-E, but that doesn't preclude a glimpse at the adorable short that goes with it.
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# Shyamalan hate is the new black! "The Happening is so bad that I feel compelled to make a spoiler-laden list of its most laughably terrible parts rather than review it."
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# Yanks' Wang out at least 6 weeks Life imitates comedy art. Baron von Funny would be proud.
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Mon, Jun 16

# Stan Winston, 62 Oh no. No, no, no. Even if I weren't in JP celebration mode, this is very sad.
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# Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey NSFW I completely agree with Susannah, but the excerpt she's arguing with had me in stitches. (Turns out it's from our old friend Lore Sjöberg!)
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Fri, Jun 13

# NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58 Sad and shocking. But now at least he and Big Russ are up in heaven sipping Cutty Sark together.
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# Becoming immortal "The first human to live to 1,000 may have already been born." Somebody get to work on a turn signal that never burns out.
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Thu, Jun 12

# Freakonomics Q&A With the Author of Traffic Fascinating, and refreshingly direct. I can't wait for this book.
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# Gummi Lighthouses: When Candy Design Goes Terribly, Hilariously Wrong
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# Life Expectancy Hits Record High in United States Oh God, that's just what we need.
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Wed, Jun 11

Jurassic Park (DVD)
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# DWP drops 400,000 balls onto Ivanhoe Reservoir And, bless 'em, they have enough class to synchronize it.
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# Will the Olympics Not Be Televised? Of course they won't not – what an alarmist headline. (But God, how awesome that would be!)
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# Investing Strategies for iPhone Customers Thankfully, he's mostly kidding.
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Tue, Jun 10

A Bridge Too Far (Netflix)
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# Lifetime Movie Mash-ups Not as much fun as it sounds, but credit to Lifetime for running with the joke that their movies are all interchangeable.
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Sun, Jun 8

Double Indemnity (Netflix)
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Harold and Maude (Netflix)
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (DVD)
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Fri, Jun 6

# RepRap, the rapid prototype builder that replicates itself. This is what I was talking about with the Cylons – now it's just a matter of time.
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Thu, Jun 5

Jekyll, Season 1 (Netflix, Disc 2)
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Tue, Jun 3

# Burn After Reading Trailer Looks like this might deliver what I had expected from Raising Arizona. (And if so, I think the larger ensemble is the key.)
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Mon, Jun 2

Recount (Video)
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