This is my new favorite platformer. Flash games are so addicting.

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Merry Christmas everyone!
Side observation about me and blogging…apparently it’s a procrastination tool, and not something I do when I have free time, given that I have had nothing but free time for the past two weeks, since I’m home on Christmas break, and yet I have not written a thing. One of the things [...]

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Tagged:Christmas, Point of Grace, Sarah McLachlan

This would be such a natural for Netflix. Hope they do something similar, and soon.

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Yahoo’s got selected full TV episodes up. I recommend Veronica, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, and Heroes (except I wouldn’t watch Heroes out of order, so maybe not).

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Two…count ‘em, TWO…movies this month. How freakin’ pathetic is that? And one of them was because I was writing about it for class. Oh well, there are twelve books. That’s right. More than I’ve ever read in a month before, ever. Well, yes, all of them were for school. [...]

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Tagged:Aspects of the Novel, Brian Friel, Casino Royale, Deirdre Madden, E.M. Forster, Excalibur, James Bond, King Arthur, One by One in the Darkness, Richard Russo, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Samuel Beckett, Straight Man, Tom Stoppard, Translations, Waiting for Godot

Disney to show short films before features. I wish every studio would do this.

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A couple of weeks ago, Andy Horbal ran a Film Criticism blog-a-thon, basically encouraging other film bloggers to post their thoughts on film criticism and then posting all the links in his blog. I haven’t had time to read all the posts yet, but this one caught my eye. These are Matt Riviera’s [...]

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What do grad students talk about in their downtime? Why, what books to kick out of the canon of English literature, of course!
I think between ten or so of us, we nominated the following for de-canonization:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Romeo and Juliet (not all of Shakespeare, just R&J)
Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Charles Dickens (my contribution)
Virginia [...]

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Tagged:Catcher in the Rye, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Herman Melville, Madame Bovary, Moby Dick, Romeo and Juliet, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf