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Thoughts While Being Abandoned by the Waiter
I walked into the restaurant alone, feeling OK about life and hungry. It had been a long day and I thought I would treat myself to a nice, quiet meal. It was a Tuesday and the restaurant I had chosen was oddly hopping on that particular weeknight. Did I miss that it was some kind […]
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Cleopatra’s Glass Bottom Boat
A pair of really fun, delightful films come to blu-ray thanks to those cinematic curators over at Warner Archive. You wouldn’t immediately think these two films would go together, but as I watched them back to back I found they made for a really grand double feature. First up from 1973 is the soul […]
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Weekend Bicuspid
It was a restless night, about three in the morning. I tried like hell but nothing was working to put me to sleep. Not a medication nor a meditation. I gave up and sat in my living room, grumbling, watching the wastelands of late night TV. That’s when the ad came on, that eerily seemed […]
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Detour
I was familiar with director Edgar G. Ulmer’s 1945 bleak noir “Detour” in name only. The film was from PRC, a poverty row studio that specialized in low-budget, bargain basement B-films. “Poverty Row” is a term used for studios of the classic Hollywood era that did just that—low-budgets with no name stars. As […]
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The Best Albums You’ve Never Heard
I’m going to be very honest with you, I kinda hate the title of this column. It sounds hipster and pretentious. Yet—I can’t think of any other way to get you “in” to what I am talking about, and frankly, the three albums in question are all amazing albums that should be celebrated as much […]
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A Romantic Evening For One
Valentine’s Day can be a drag when you’re single. Social media blows up with declarations of love and happiness, while you find yourself in your mid-30s, alone on a couch in your underwear eating Chef Boyardee straight from the can. This doesn’t mean that you can’t celebrate yourself on Valentine’s Day. After all, they say […]
The Dinner Party
When I was a kid, I used to think that the height of adult life, the zenith of being an adult and enjoying sophisticated evenings, was the dinner party. Part of this existing as a concept in my head was thanks to a CD that I still own from 1995 called “Donna Reed’s Dinner Party” […]
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Notorious
It’s one of the most debated questions in all of movie fandom, “What is Alfred Hitchcock’s best movie?” There really aren’t any bad answers, it boils down to personal taste. It’s a question I myself have always gone back and forth on for most of my life. I used to state, in somewhat of a […]
Plan Your Road Trip Well in Advance
I have a trip coming up in March that I’m already thinking about. It’s not a long trip, I’ll be spending a weekend in Gatlinburg with the improv group I’m a part of performing at a festival. Even though this trip is well over a month away, I’m already doing my mental planning about it. […]
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My Family’s Gaming Legacy
For as long as my memory can reach back, there are two games I know of that stand out in my mind as the chosen ones of my family, equality on both sides of where I come from. When I was a kid I can recall being sent to bed while downstairs hours and hours […]
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The Worst Date I Ever Went On
That transitory time that comes at the end and the start of the year is a time of reflection for many. I have found this to be especially true as one week after New Year’s Day is when my birthday falls. Seeing that this week I celebrate another trip around the sun, and also entering […]
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Resolutions I Promise to Keep in 2019
Happy New Year! 2019 is upon up us and if you’re anything like me, you too are having massive anxiety over dealing with the fact that somehow 1999 was 20 years ago. But with the coming of another year comes once more a set of resolutions to mostly not keep. This week, I’d like to […]
