February 2012
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“This was what was keeping me awake at night,” Walter said. “This...”
– Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (p. 218)
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Oscars Wrap-Up
Best Dressed: Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Penelope Cruz.
I don’t even like her, but I have to note that Gwyneth Paltrow kind of wore a cape on the red carpet AND tricked me into thinking she had cut off her hair
Worst Dressed: Meryl Meryl Meryl. Across the board, everyone looked really good this year and I generally don’t like picking “worst” things…but I hate...
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Meryl, no.
Yikes. Every year yikes. But even worse than expected this year.
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Octavia Spencer, best dressed for life!
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“I’m going to croak any minute, so I have to keep going.”
– Christopher Plummer, on taking a role on a new HBO project.
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My Oscar Predictions (These Are Boring)
Picture: The Artist Director: Michael Hazanavicius - The Artist Actor: Jean Dujardin - The Artist Actress: Viola Davis - The Help Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer - Beginners Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer - The Help Original Screenplay: Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash - The Descendants Editing: Anne-Sophie Bion, Michael...
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Jeff Daniels is super underappreciated, right?...
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Listening to the white album, drinking green tea...
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And for such a feminist show, it’s so not okay for Tom to pressure Ann into dating him. Not funny or cute, and seeing a female respond to that behaviour is completely outside the Parks and Rec ethos.
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This episode of Parks & Rec was not good.
The writers need to stop fixating on their characters’ gimmicky personality traits (Ben is scared of cops - wah-ho, the comedy just writes itself!) and get back to telling stories. I know it’s easy to forget that Brendanawicz ever existed, but if you go back and watch the episodes where he was around, at least there was a grounding force in the show. Having all the characters dancing...
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Breathing a sigh of relief this morning to learn that House [MD] has called it quits. I stopped watching it last year (far too late as it was), but I stand by the brilliance of the character and Hugh Laurie’s performance. I will be around on May 21 to see the end of it. Which hopefully involves Stephen Fry.
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I've seen The Artist but I can't talk about it.
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Think what you choose That happy dream is yours they say If you can pay the dues That’s why I’m stuck with Fresh outta luck with the blues There’s no exit None you can try with the blues See if you’re born with You gotta die with the blues
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This is my fourth morning waking up with an evil mucus curdling cold, please, what should I eat and drink to defeat this?
January 2012
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