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Nuance is crucial…
We have been watching BET’s American Gangster on Netflix lately, a documentary series profiling notorious black gangsters from the 1950s to the present day. Ving Rhames narrates. I absolutely love this...
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The problems with thinking it’s a “post-racial” America…
I’ve been pretty shocked about the racist comments on Twitter about the re-election of Obama, not because I don’t think racism exists, but because of the age of the people doing it. Jezebel looked into...
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Tammy on a windy November afternoon…
This song is vast and strange. It just keeps getting weirder to me every time I hear it.
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My recent film education…
I never saw many classic movies growing up. We were music nuts in my house, spending hours and hours on Dylan B-sides and bootlegs, but my parents and older brother never took it upon themselves to...
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First thoughts on the Godfather I and II
An ambitious pair of movies. The second one compliments the first seamlessly, particularly in the relationships between Michael and Kay, and Michael and Vito (both as children). Diane Keaton’s...
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RIP Roger Ebert
From Slate: Roger understood how much movies matter, how a good one can burrow into our souls, and he never let anyone forget it. It’s hard to imagine him no longer out there watching, thinking, and...
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The American cynicism awards…
I had an aneurysm about this earlier today on Facebook. And I say this as a huge fan of country music, and even a fan of Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert and Brad Paisley. This might be the WORST song...
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Read an amazing book…
and then procrastinated writing about it until the very last day when I had to take it back to the library because I’m awful. Ta-nehisi Coates, my role-model in writing, my best friend in my...
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Reading the summer away…
I’ve been avoiding the heat by reading in air conditioned places; reading on the beach; reading beside lakes; reading on the shady part of my deck. Now I have a stack of books lined up for fall, and...
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A mini review…
I just finished Big Brother by Lionel Shriver. It’s the second book by her that I’ve read recently; earlier in the summer I read We Need to Talk About Kevin. That book is incredible, precisely...
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Where my head is at..
I am working as a dog walker this fall. I love it. It’s a good time for thinking, a good head space to be in. I walk around, the weather is wonderful, and I spend all of my time with dogs. Ask me...
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The Misadventures of Post-recession Rory Part 1
At a pub last weekend, tipsily, I had a conversation with my friend Sarah about my love of Gilmore Girls and the frustration I had at the fact that the show ended on the cusp of Rory’s post-graduate...
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The Misadventures of Post-Recession Rory Part 2: Rory Gets Rejected
While mopping the floors at Luke’s diner night after night, Rory has a lot of time to think about the next phase of her life. She considers asking Logan’s dad for a job, but can’t ignore the fact that...
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Reading until my eyes fall out…
Night Film by Marisha Pessl just came in to the library and I snatched it up like a greedy little piggy. Also delving in, simultaneously, to Andrew Solomon’s the Noonday Demon (loved his Far From the...
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Writing again…
Well, what do you know, I’m working on some stuff. A suggestion, from an artist-in-residence at an art school I went to in 2005, made to me Jan 20th, 2008, is finally bearing fruit. My Donna Tartt-ish...
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Night Film. Jeeze.
I finished Night Film, Marisha Pessl’s second book last night. I loved her debut, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, and had high hopes for this. I’m feeling very meh about it. If I think about it...
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