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February 11, 2014 Tuesday 10: Movies of 1991
When I started doing these “yearly” lists, it was because one day I was hit with how many movies I loved came out in 1989. I had no idea how fun it would be for me to go through the lists for each year and winnow them. There’s a lot of “oh, yeah! That was […]
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February 10, 2014 Pet Sounds
This is a slightly-edited repost of an article from 2006 on another blog of mine. A mixture of not knowing what to post and a feeling that it did not get as much traction back then as it should have is what prompts its repost here today. A few weeks back I bought the Beach […]
Tags: Beach Boys
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February 7, 2014 The Lego Movie
I want to talk about The Lego Movie, but I don’t know how to do it without potentially spoiling things. I don’t want to ruin anything for you, so I’m giving you the chance to not read spoilers by putting the spoilers after the poster. If you don’t want to know anything about the movie, […]
Tags: Lego
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February 6, 2014 Miscellany
How have I made it this long without some sort of “a bunch of little things that don’t deserve their own entry but I have thoughts about just the same” category? I need a better title, but we’ll go with “miscellany” for now, though I also quite like “salmagundi.” Bulleted for your viewing pleasure: It […]
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February 4, 2014 Tuesday 20: Last Songs I’ve Music-Matched
You probably use Shazam or SoundHound. I use Bing Audio, despite not being able to say something cool like “I Shazamed it” or “Totally SoundHounded, yo!” It’s built into the OS of my Windows Phone and it’s very quick (usually quicker than SoundHound, which I sometimes use just to see what it does), and it […]
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