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Forum archives for Monitor Duty are shrinking
Based on the results of the “How big should our archives be?” poll, I’m setting the forum archives to 12 months as of January 1, 2006. If you want to preserve some old favorite threads or conversations, you should head over to the forum and give them a bump now! (For the uninitiated, “bump” means…
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Libertas reviews Spielberg’s Munich
I’m a bit behind on my movie-watching for the holidays. I’ve got a free ticket to see King Kong, which I will allow myself to do next week if I get enough of my comic writing done, and Melinda wants to see The Producers for New Year’s. But after reading Jason Apuzzo’s review of Munich,…
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A real, honest to goodness ANNUAL?
Just perusing the DC releases in upcoming months and spotted this: Teen Titans Annual #1 by Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman! Holy cow! An honest and for-true boney fido annual! An annual just like my mother’s comic book company used to make. The kind of epic extra-long story that needed extra pages but didn’t cost…
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It’s Minnesota! We just assumed it’s cold!
When the temperatures are in the upper thirties, don’t park your SUV on the ice!
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Wonderful character actor Vincent Schiavelli now haunting subway
It is with much sadness that I must bring this obituary to your attention. Actor Vincent Schiavelli, 57, Dies in Italy. If the name doesn’t strike you as familiar, check out the picture. You may not have memorized the name like I did, but he’s one of those “Hey, it’s that guy!” character actors that…
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More movie remakes!
I’ve never seen the original version of The Hills Have Eyes, but I understand it’s already one of the all-time great horror classics that did everything right. Why a remake? Are they going to have anyone as good and weird as that Michael Berryman fellow in the first one?
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We have Santa on RADAR!
NORAD Tracks Santa
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…for this reason, I have sent them my only son
Remember what I said the other day about Christ figures? Remember how some people were annoyed about the obvious Christian symbolism in the new Superman Returns trailer? Well, just in time for Christmas, Dial B For Blog puts together quite an interesting presentation.
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Chris Rock spoils Christmas for kids
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Grinch … on ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ Chris Rock’s TV show (he has a TV show?) on UPN (UPN is still on the air?) featured a plotline in which a young child is told “the truth about Santa.” Parents are upset that their little children saw this. What kind of parent…
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“The Ringer” vs. South Park
Fake cripple fight!!!! In 2004, South Park did an episode called “Up The Down Steroid” about the Special Olympics. One of the two plotlines involved Cartman faking a mental handicap so that he could compete in the Special Olympics and win $1000 since he easily beat the retarded kids. However, he learns that the Special…