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I jump from Sandy to Nicki in this week’s horribly embarrassing journal entry and am called upon once again to reflect that maybe I should have vetted these diaries before pushing ahead with this podcast. Well, whatever. Plus: Kat continues…
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My So-Cast Life – Pilot
We are once again in the iTunes store! And here’s an updated RSS feed for all you freestylers: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MySo-castLifeTederickcom/MattBrown Though it pains me to have a picture of fuckin’ Jordan on my blog, I am happy to announce the arrival…
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Destroy All Monsters: “Our Lot In Life” – Droid Personhood In STAR WARS
The question of gender as it relates to droids is interesting, if only in how it connects to the other, less-discussed aspect of these characters from the Star Wars saga: the status of their personhood. Gender is one of the…
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Blu-ray Review: DOWNHILL RACER Snaps Into Sharp Focus On Criterion
Here’s what the Criterion Collection is good for: equal parts enshrining of significant milestones in the art of film (see last week’s review of Ikiru), and the championing of striking works of filmcraft that have somehow slipped from the narrative…
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Review: SPECTRE
From A to Bond was a countdown rewatch, in alphabetical order, of the James Bond movies, which I wrote for The Substream leading up to the release of SKYFALL in 2012. I’ve continued the format for the SPECTRE review, and…
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Tatttooo: if she be worthy
I waited thirty years to get my first tattoo and seven more to get my second; tattoo #3 follows #2 at a hair-raising 15 months, and was also the shortest inception-to-ink turnaround in my life. If Tumblr is to be…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “All Good Things…”
“And the sky’s the limit.” There’s that shot at the end of “All Good Things…,” the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Captain Picard starts dealing a poker hand to his crew – he’s never, in seven…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Preemptive Strike”
“Laren, what’s going on?” The penultimate episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ties off the series’ last great recurring character, with a final visit for Ensign Ro, here promoted to Lieutenant. Since her introduction in Season Five, Ro transitioned…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Emergence”
“I’ll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth…!” The seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation is awful. I’m on the record with that throughout: people grouse about Seasons One and Two, and there are certainly…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Bloodlines”
“You’ll never look at your hairline again in the same way.” For reasons I’ve never been able to suss out, Star Trek: The Next Generation spends one of its very last episodes doing a sequel to the ridiculous first-season episode…
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