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let’s not make a big deal about the new year, 2012 edition.

January 4th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized

Here’s some lists for 2012! Social lessons I learned in 2011: 1. You know, I don’t think men like it when you are very blunt and autistic about sexual things. Like, say you’re hanging out and it seems as though things are moving towards pants coming off… I used to think they would find it [...]

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the woods, week 2.

November 13th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Not to alarm everyone, but my little stone house is haunted. There are big brown spiders. I’ve seen two so far, or it might be the same one. The first time I picked him up in a towel and shook him outside. Then I watched him immediately scurry into a crevice near the doorstop, so [...]

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literary adventures, part 1.

June 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

My sister is four years older. She read every night under the covers and I thought that seemed like a brainy thing to do. I inherited all the books. I always liked books and I was always messy. It started with a strip of duct tape across the pink carpet but I couldn’t contain my [...]

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oh no and other poems.

May 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

The most thrilling thing about Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World is watching all the people in the movie who are living on purpose. You don’t find yourself one day at 55 years old taking milk samples from sea lions in the South Pole unless that’s really what you want to do with [...]

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things related to The Rapture.

May 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

1. The superb but underrated 1991 film . 2. 3. Crows

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Best Adapted Screenplay

April 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Back, baby. Back to not wanting to read all of these student stories and so blogging instead. I couldn’t help but feel a bruising of my ego when everyone’s comments on the last post amounted to, “you should see this film,” as though I were a cinematic idiot. There are 100 films on both of [...]

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Best Original Screenplay.

April 19th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized

I’m afraid of failure and so pathologically engage in distractions from doing schoolwork. Here’s a list of all the best original screenplay academy award nominations from when I was in first grade to the present. You’ll need a legend: Bold indicates winner. Italics denotes my preference. Asterisks* means I have not seen this film. 1990 [...]

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Oscar Party Tips

February 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Take a shot any time James Franco smiles and the broadcast cuts to a smiling actor in the audience. Watch for it. Remember Freaks and Geeks? His beam is infectious. Don’t necessarily bother watching all the films. Research Vegas odds and film bloggers to make informed Oscar predictions. Vow to give everyone at the party [...]

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Let’s not make a big thing about new years this year.

January 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

1. The appliance repairman that came to my mother’s house this week. A spry, wily guy, he looked like a Milk Man more than anything. He was very enthusiastic about our particular dryer model, the one that wouldn’t shut off and apparently had caught fire several times internally. From inside the front panel he pulled [...]

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Other Terrors Lurk!

December 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

There are places you don’t and can’t know about. People are trapped there and God has forgotten them. No one knows anything about them. If anything, the statues are made out of them. There are worlds where damned children eat cereal made of maggots – worlds where you might watch your hands turn into hooves. [...]

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