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Netflix kindly delivered Children of Men to my door last week. I have to say, after looking forward to it for months, I was quite disappointed. Christopher Orr at TNR hits most points of my disagreement with the film. I agree with Orr that the story goes astray with its new emphasis on the “fugees,” [...]
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All right, let’s do this thing. I’m nothing if not a conformist. I’m just so happy we weren’t asked to read Cannery Row! So if you care to, read along with me: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. [...]
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Thanks goodness the folks at The Chronicle of Higher Education don’t have anything better to do as exam time approaches, or we’d have had to live without this very funny college prank compilation video. I can’t embed it here, so you’ll have to go there to watch it. Click it while it’s hot! And speaking [...]
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