Category: Fluff
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“Shine” On, you Crazy Hillbilly!
Don’t let the title fool you, the man pictured at left is not crazy, far from it, and I have no problem with the people of Appalachia (eh-puh-latch-uh). I grew up in Western North Carolina, you see, and it was not uncommon to see people like him on a daily basis. His name, by the…
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I can’t figure out if I should be impressed, or intimidated, or just plain disgusted…
I can’t say I’ve ever been drawn to the allure (can it even be typified as allure?) of the “Cash Money” aesthetic. Personally, there’s nothing about some tough looking mug displaying his/her wealth (or casting the illusion of) in ostentatious amounts for an album cover that makes me curious as to what sort of music…
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Finally!
Spider-man, Spider-man, Does whatever a spider can, Spins a web, any size, Catches thieves just like flies, Look Out! Here comes the Spider-man! Is he strong? Listen, bud, He’s got radioactive blood. Can he swing from a thread, Take a look overhead, Hey, there! There goes the Spider-man! In the chill of night, At the…
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Oh My Gawd! It’s like it was planned this way!
YASS, YASS, thas rah-yat, ya’ll! Two important dates this weekend, a weekend serendipitously put together for maximum consumption of pop-culture iconography. Friday sees the premier of the film SPIDER-MAN 3, Back in Black, and Saturday is Free Comic Book Day! This is better than Christmas and Kwanzaa put together! So go unto the world ye…
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Just another possible reason to shut off your cellphone!
Had this article forwarded to me today, and if there is even a hint of truth to these claims we are all screwed. That’s right, Jackasses! No more worrying ’bout your precious cost of oil or your war in Iraq, or even who the next god-awful “Amerikan I-dull” will be. We have a problem that…
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It’s all over…
On hold during a call at work today, and the muzak being played was The Doors The Unknown Soldier. I don’t quite know what to make of that. Was it a statement? Nostalgia? It was weird either way.
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An Evening with Bruce Campbell
Florida State University hosted an “Evening with Bruce Campbell” last night in their Union Ballrooms. Mr. Campbell, best known for his role as “Ash” in the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness films is one of Hollywood’s finest and funniest B-Movie Actors. He spent the first part of the evening talking about Florida, quizzing and offering cash…
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The irony is delicious!
In our country we teach our children to “JUST SAY NO!” But only to illegal drugs. Those drugs not produced by Pharmaceutical Conglomerates like GlaxoSmithKline or Pfizer. Those drugs not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But do we spend any educational dollars on telling kids that they can find ways to live without…
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The red-herring…
Hitchcock was a big fan of it, and countless other story-tellers throughout history have used it as well. A “red-herring”, from a story-telling perspective, is the act of deliberately inserting a plot point into a story so as to set audiences to expect one outcome so that they are taken completely by surprise when the…
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WHAT?!?
They killed Captain America?!? What? Who? Why? um, read it for yourself, I think I need to collect myself…. IN the meantime someone find me Joe Quesada and “bring him to me cause I want to look him in the eye and tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred,…