Sunday, July 28, 2013
Movie Review: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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Directed by Jay Roach. 1997. If you can recall America circa 1997 you can probably recall Austin Powers . Mike Myers' breakout role a...
Saturday, July 27, 2013
The Case of Anthony Weiner
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New Yorkers are __________ that Anthony Weiner is running for mayor. Your choices are: outraged, insulted, stupefied, or shocked. They'...
Friday, July 26, 2013
The Snowball of Progress
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That aspect of conservatism which is simply a disposition toward preservation gives rise to much consternation for both progressives and...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Just Plain Bad
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The latest speech from the 21st century Cicero has arrived and it's a doozy . How long and boring and tedious it is! It's all ove...
Sum and Part
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Daphnis ego in silvis hinc usque ad sidera notus formonsi pecoris formonsior ipse. –Vergil. Eclogue VI. 43-44 The connection between ma...
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Where Are My Eagles!
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Skeptical eagle is skeptical. I don't want to talk about the coma-inducing sentimentality of this ridiculous piece of music, and I ...
Saturday, July 20, 2013
John Williams: The Asteroid Field
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John Williams is likely the most known and loved composer of movie scores in the last forty years. He's probably the most popular compo...
Friday, July 19, 2013
Yeah but. . . you know
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The well of imbecility runs deep, dear reader, and in the latest demonstration of its inexhaustible depths the president has shared the fol...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Double Feature Review: Pitch Perfect & Sharktopus
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To paraphrase musicologist Hans Keller, great art diversifies a unity. One of the principal challenges of art, then, is crafting episodes w...
Monday, July 15, 2013
The Art of Not Having An Opinion
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While swimming in the jury pool with my fellow citizens earlier this year, I found myself waiting long whiles with them in an auditorium fe...
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