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Video
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Review: Murderball
Guys in wheelchairs have sex too.
- DVD Review: Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2
- Region 1 DVD Releases for 9th August 2005
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Remakes we never want to see
...- a remake of the Godfather where the Corleones have the best pizza business in the five boroughs...
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TV Review: Home of the Brave
Home of the Brave is showing Monday at 10 pm on Court TV and repeats Sunday at 2 pm. It will also be out on DVD on August 23rd.
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Review: The Chumscrubber
Assembles such an amazing collection of actors that their mishandling by novice director Arie Posin is unforgivable.
- Review: Saturday Morning with Sid & Marty Krofft
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Review: Queer as Folk Season 5 Finale
In the end, they stayed true to the characters, and the series needed to leave us with that much more than a sappy ending.
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The Real World Goes to Key West ... Then Where?
MTV's popular reality series The Real World is moving into Key West next season. But then where?
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Review: Tombstone
One of the best westerns ever made, thanks to inspired casting and a brilliant script.
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Review: Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko is a surefire contemporary classic that should not be avoided by any means.
- A Television Viewer's Diary: 7/31-8/6
Music
- New album releases, week of 8-9-2005
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Chad VanGaalen: Canadian Low-Fi Wunderkind
Chad VanGaalen's Sub Pop debut, to be released on August 23, 2005, impresses.
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CD Review: Kellee Bradley Is Waiting
When I read the credits of Kellee Bradley's new release Waiting, I knew I was in for some sonic delights.
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CD Review: The Essential Dolly Parton
A better-than-decent start to your Dolly Parton collection. You do plan to start a Dolly collection, don't you?
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Ten Years On: Jerry Garcia Remembered
Can you believe a decade has passed? Jerry's gone, but the memories live on.
- Stereophonics - Language. Sex. Violence. Other? CD Review
- Glassjaw drop off tour and The Daily Music and Tech News
- Wade O. Brown, All Night, All Love
- CD Review: Shel Silverstein - The Best Of Shel Silverstein His Words His Songs His Friends
- CD review: Exes & Whys?
- CD Review: Faith Hill's Fireflies
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"Bird on a Wire" - KD Lang tops Johnny Cash in cage match pecking order
KD Lang owns "Bird on a Wire." It's her song now.
- Motley Crue live at Red Rocks
Culture
- Tablet PC And The NCAA: Tablet PC Users Petition NCAA To Force School Name Change
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E-Qaeda TV
The fact that terrorist recruit on the internet is trumped by the sobering fact that their numbers and websites are growing.
- Marilyn suicidal, no. Wacky, yes.
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Reflections On "No Child Left Behind"
During the early eighties when I began to teach English as a career, education was rife with change. Mantra one day became dogma the next.
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Blogcritics and 10 million visitors; growth in many ways
It hasn't all been fun. I guess I'll call that growing pains as everyone sees what fits and everyone else reacts to it.
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Of Hunks and Babes
Beautiful woman and handsome men decorate everything from television screens to magazine covers to the walls of teen boys and girls to clothing ads.
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Train People: The Sequel
Do the unique train people you see everyday have a catchy name for you too?
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Frida Kahlo: one of the greats
It was the art that caused me to leave the exhibition shaken, almost overwhelmed ...
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Notable Quotables 8/8/05
Some Notable Quotables from King Fahd and what to call same-sex parents.
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Of Interest To Pagans
Spirit of the Thing: Against Hairsplitting in the Pagan Community
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The Muslim, The Jew, and the Briefcase of Diamonds
The briefcase full of diamonds is secondary to the religion of the two men.
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Blogcritics Editors' Picks - July 30 to Aug. 5
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain.. and most fools do - Dale Carnegie
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Peter Jennings, the Prince of Nightly News, has passed
The prince has died. And along with him, the era of the nightly anchor as protective prince. Remembering Peter Jennings.
Politics
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Throwing Caution to a Very Ill Wind
"... there [has] been no significant reduction in the inherent vulnerability of the most dangerous... chemical facilities and conveyances to terrorist attack since September 11, 2001."
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A Recipe for Contempt of Court
Martha, Rafael and President Bush cook up a recipe for contempt of court that could prove to be a recipe for disaster.
- The Great Union Break-up: Getting Dirty Money out of Politics
- Celebrating Guardians Who Kill
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Rove and Plame: It's not about a leak
As the pundits take turns deifying and then roasting Karl Rove for his supposed involvement in the Valerie Plame leak, there is a much more important (albeit less sexy) issue at play here: Why was a supposedly "secret" CIA agent ever that close- even though personal relationships- to the ever ugly game of partisan politics?
- The Struggle Continues.... James Dobson: Ideological Extremist?
Books
- Book Review: Because I Said So
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Book Review: Zorro
Isabel Allende's version of Zorro grounds the character in Native America and provocatively alters the myth.
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5 Word Story: Harry Potter
An experiment in online writing, lifted from the comments
Gaming
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Nintendo DS Review: Goldeneye - Rogue Agent
Setting video games back with every level.
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Xbox Review: Destroy All Humans
Campy fun.
Sci/Tech
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Blogathon's Blogging for Charity!
Blogathon.org hosts a 24 hour event to raise money for charity.
- Interview: Eric Olsen of Blogcritics.org – Part II
- Updated Daylight Savings Reminds People Of Y2K
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The Tyranny of Digital Distance
The tyranny of digital distance occurs when the geographic has been by and large supplanted by the digital ...
Sports
- Palmeiro: Hall of Fame in Jeopardy, Congress Pursuing Perjury Charges
- U.S. Kicked Out of Cricket Tournament
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Futon Report: Who's in, who's out of AL playoffs
A month ago, 11 teams were in. Since then, it's a little clearer, but not by much.
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