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Film titles which promise much but do not deliver.
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Film titles which promise much but do not deliver. There is no point in Runaway Jury where the twelve just and true ones decide they have had enough of this tedious trial mularkey and scarper from the box. Nowhere dow we see them being persued by the[…]

Sweet Cred
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Sweet Cred[…]

Those wacky Middle Agers!!
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Those wacky Middle Agers!!:
“WARNING: Do not attempt to recreate this recipe, as lime is highly caustic and potentially dangerous; it should never be used in cooking.”
(Ingredient availability permitting – haha peacock unlikely &#[…]

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The Science of the Cookery of Animals Which Don’t Exist #1
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The Science of the Cookery of Animals Which Don’t Exist #1: The Cockentrice

(I’m still trying to track down net sources on a really interesting piece I read in Scientific American some years back, about medieval theories of food and nu[…]

wolfgang tillmans–for when i am week i’m strong.
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wolfgang tillmans–for when i am week i’m strong.
his photographs seem almost accidental, i have this catalog beside me from a mid90s show at Kunstmusuem in Wohlberg, and when i try to explain the photos they seem so ordinary. But they mo[…]

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  1. "Dave Sim sticks the landing." That is my feeling too. As frustrating and borderline unreadable as the last 50 issues…

  2. One thing I think you missed and one thing I have to shamefacedly admit: 1) The Krazy Kat homage, brief…

  3. " ... it’s also an ominous indication of where he’s going as a creator. He’s laying out dialogue so as…

  4. LOL - I'm reading through these, and the "Jaka's Story" one drew my first reaction, and in it I said…

  5. I think the notion that conservatives can't make art is nonsense. J.R.R.Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton are two of my favorite…