Akismet Graveyard
Previously on Cheek and Bluster
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Open Letter to Certain Residents of Beachwood Drive
February 4, 2010
It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?
Let’s see… there have been about ten or twelve garbage pick-ups since New Years, and for some darned reason they’ve ignored your discarded tree every time. Oh wait—I know: it’s because they don’t pick [...] -
Get Lost: Early Frontrunner for 2010 “Top 10 Videos”
January 20, 2010
I’ll give you this, Lost-ies: the first season was pretty good. By the end of the second season, however, I was annoyed. I’ll give it credit for trying something different–and I use “different” here in the strictly value-neutral sense. “Different” is only different until it suddenly isn’t.
FINAL SEASON OF ‘LOST’ PROMISES TO MAKE FANS MORE [...]
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Up in the Air Dance Remix is Unsatisfying
January 18, 2010
Normally, I look forward to screener season. Woohoo—free movies! At least once a year, for a few weeks, my SAG dues seem to deliver a tangible benefit.
Last night was my first viewing of any of the four screeners I have (thus far) received, and it was not an auspicious beginning. Up in the Air looks [...] -
Top 10 Movies of the Decade
January 15, 2010
Jeff Chen recently asked, “Since everybody else is making lists of their top ten films of the decade, does that mean I have to, too?” I wouldn’t presume to speak for him, but my own answer to the same rhetorical question is a sheepish “yes.” Jeff ended up making his list, too, although I don’t [...]
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Peter Gammons on McGwire
January 13, 2010
Peter Gammons (Flickr/Trev Stair)
Sagely baseball writer Peter Gammons, asked by MLB Network analyst and former big-league pitcher Mitch Williams whether he will now vote for Mark McGwire’s induction into the Hall of Fame:
I think it’s going to be hard now to vote for Mark. I reserve the right to change my mind. I voted for [...]