Author Archives: Mark
June 26, 2013 Batgirl
I recently started following Gail Simone on Twitter, mostly because a friend suggested I do so and because I saw several retweets from her that amused me greatly. [Twitter Tip: be amusing and friendly to get more Twitter followers!] I had no idea who she was before said friend told me she’d written for several […]
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June 25, 2013 Tuesday 10: Written By John Hughes
I need to be completely honest here: I’m not so sure this is a list I’m qualified to write. It’s inspired by my recent watching of The Breakfast Club, a movie my wife had never seen before. I didn’t remember liking the movie all that much when I saw it before, but I knew it […]
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June 24, 2013 Better Off Ted S02E04: It’s Nothing Business, It’s Just Personal
Ted starts out the episode by stating he wants to keep his private life and his work life separate. Good luck with that, Ted. I mean, it’s not a bad idea, really, but it’s clearly not going to work. As if to underscore that, Linda immediately comes up to him and asks him about “that […]
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June 22, 2013 Ranking Polka Party
This is the fourth in a series of transplanted articles from my other blog. The transplants will run on Saturdays until they’re all over here. They are copied and pasted, but might get slight edits here and there. In October of 1986 I was just a couple of months into being a freshman in high […]
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June 21, 2013 James Gandolfini on Sesame Street
I don’t know what it’s like to be forever associated with one particular role. Leonard Nimoy initially was totally bummed about it but then came around to embracing it (actually, that seems to happen to a lot of Star Trek actors…). Outside of Star Trek, there is a short list of people so associated with […]
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