Author: tederick
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Review: STAR TREK
And on we go. So here we are, at last. Honestly, the (latent? dormant? something) Trekkie in me – the one who, like umpteen million others, found Trek when he was a disenfranchised, too-cerebral adolescent – never thought the Powers That Be would have the balls, or the foolishness, to reboot the franchise as they…
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The Vivarium of Dr. Tesseract
Dr. Tesseract enters the vivarium. We could imagine that he is Daniel Cockburn, had Daniel never given up cocaine (nor never not started it in the first place), and after 15 further years of apathetic days and earthshaking night terrors. The glass walls are alive with fish. Tangerine on steel on neon blue. Above, birds…
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Review: THE DARK KNIGHT
You wanna play a game? Let’s say you had an idea. A kind of “intellectual project,” if you will: you saw a problem, and thought you could design a solution. The problem was a city run rampant with organized crime, and the solution was very much a design — a visual/emotional icon, more myth than…
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Review: THE GOLDEN COMPASS
One ring to rule them compass I feel sorry for The Golden Compass. Of all the fant-lit-to-film gimmes in the half-decade since The Lord of the Rings, Compass is the one which most painfully wants to wear Daddy’s clothes. Its every nook and cranny is so painfully subservient to that frantic desire that the film that emerges is utterly naked.…
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Matt’s first tat
OH MY GOD I LOVE HER SO MUCH. OH MY FUCKING GOD I AM SO HAPPY. See? I toldja. 🙂 I am in love. That’s all there is to it. I am in love with my own arm. In my humble opinion – which is, at this time, admittedly not too terribly humble – Lisa did…
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Ass Transfer 3!: No matter where you go
Matt P: “It’s free and easy under here!”Matt B: “Oh, hooray for everything.” Key distinctions: Last night after I got home and unpacked, I grabbed my iPod and headed out the door… and ended up walking to Queen and Spadina (!). I was just saying to MP the other day that it’s been a while…
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Killed me with a sword
Philadelphia, day 2. After giving the big fat “meh” to the second-biggest mall in the country and securing our DigiTrans tickets for the evening, Matty Price and I went to downtown Philadelphia, home of the Gozer building. On the way into town we pulled off the highway suddenly (random changes of plan were MP’s gestalt…
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Potato bacon bombs
Now reporting to you live from the road at the Sleep Inn (ooh witty hotel name punnin’!) in lovely nowhere-near-the-downtown Philadelphia, Land of Shyamalan, Home the Village and the Cove and the Crop Circles From The Signs. How I ever lived in hotels that did not have complimentary WiFi, I cannot tell you. For certain,…
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Review: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
Re-posting this review from 2007, one of my favourites. Somehow, I never mentioned Timothy Olymphant once by name; but, the rest of the piece, I really like.