Author Archives: Mark
June 26, 2014 Pop Culture Time Machine: Movie Musical
Pop Culture Time Machine is when I choose what role I’d go back and play if I were given the choice (and a time machine). I’m not a huge fan of musicals. I mean, I can watch them and I’ve seen plenty of them, but if I were making a list of Favorite Genres they wouldn’t […]
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June 24, 2014 Tuesday 10: Movies of 1987
Sometimes people make fun of me for the things I like by saying “it’s not popular like ____________!” and I think that’s the dumbest possible argument I’ve ever heard about anything. You would expect to see more Ford Escorts on the road than Cadillacs. I’ve ridden in both and, hey, the Cadillac is a much better […]
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June 23, 2014 I Don’t Know If It’s Art, But I Like It
This weekend I made a 5-hour round trip to go see an art exhibit in Chicago. Normally I wouldn’t travel more than, say, 15 minutes to go to an art show that didn’t feature art by someone I knew, but I made an exception in this case because the art was all Ghostbusters-themed. Gallery nineteen […]
Tags: Ghostbusters
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June 20, 2014 Videogame Deaths
This is old, but I just re-found it in my “make sure you post this sometime” folder, and I’m surprised I hadn’t posted it before. I’m not at all familiar with Edward Gorey except for all of the parodies and versions of things I’ve seen. I don’t know the originals at all. That doesn’t diminish my […]
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