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More Nightmares Before Christmas
Wednesday December 23, 2009
Just as the Man and the Boy climbed down into the basement and found all of those chained prisoners, their bodies half-eaten by their cannibal captors, I came to a troubling realization. I have terrible taste in Christmas movies. Last year, while families were....
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On and On
Tuesday December 22, 2009
In Sam Mendes’ Away We Go, Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) begins his preparations for impending fatherhood with self-improvement classes. Representative instruction involves “family defense” and “knot-tying,” courses that could as easily win him a merit badge as ready him for....
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Presence
Monday December 21, 2009
Does anyone else remember the Snickers commercials that showed the guy closing his hand over a healthy fistful of peanuts and opening it to reveal a neatly packaged Snickers bar? They played in the early 1980s. I remember watching them at my grandparents’ house, the odor of....
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Dumping Out the Toybox
Friday December 18, 2009
If you didn’t have one, you had a friend who did: The Big Toybox. You know the one I mean: A wooden crate like the Ark of the Covenant, full of mystery and revelation. Opened and overturned, it set loose a tidal wave of miscellaneous pieces from a hundred different....
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Animal Stories
Thursday December 17, 2009
Hardly a week goes by that I don’t speak, or hear, a line from a Wes Anderson movie. My friends and I belong to that group of twenty-something Anderson fans devoted to the look and language of his quirky films, and many a line has made its way into our collective....
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