Name: Kati Irons
Dateline: Tacoma, Washington
Weblog: populucious.blogspot.com
Articles: 37
First Published: Saturday, September 9, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Currently listing articles 37-1:
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Movie Review: The Fall - Tarsem Singh Gifts Us A Masterpiece— The Fall feels like a gift of a movie for which we should all send Tarsem Singh a thank you note.
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It's Not Sexism, Stupid, or My Struggle With Hillary Clinton— That anyone can look at Hillary Clinton and see a victim is the biggest mystery to me of all.
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Agnes Shanklin Joins the Dreamers of the Day while Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: A Review of Two Delightful Women Living History— Few have ever looked back on life and said "I'm so glad I threw away love when I had it in my hands."
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ShoWest Diaries: Days 3 and 4 - Journey to the Center of the Earth, 21 Premier Party, and My Dinner With Christian Bale— In which our exhausted reporter loses track of time and space but gets her very own Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D spelunking
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ShoWest Diaries: Day Two - Hamlet 2, Kung Fu Panda, and Ang Lee— Our intrepid reporter finally gets to Dine With the Stars and learns a hard lesson about mixing tequila and Red Bull.
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ShoWest Diaries: Day One— I’m a huge Eddie Murphy fan and I don’t want to see a fourteen foot high picture of Eddie Murphy’s face.
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Christians Lose Their Compass: A Closer Look At Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy— Pullman raises issues which we should be embracing, such as the importance of free will and the danger of religious oligarchy.
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Movie Review: Some Enchanted Hitman - A Completely Random Film Festival — I chose Enchanted and Hitman based on the promise they would nicely complement my feast of nachos, Slurpee, and Red Vines.
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Can't Two Men In Caftans Have A Wizard Duel Without It Being Gay? — It's a world which, now given permission, will do it's damnedest to reduce the character of Dumbledore into a caricature in rainbow robes.
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Television's Merciless Onslaught: The Season So Far - Damages, Torchwood, Journeyman, Big Bang Theory, and Bionic Woman— The formula for Entertainment Value: EV= (Plot+Humor+Suspense)Enjoyment/Time+Emotional Investment.
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Movie Review: Shoot 'Em Up— Shoot 'Em Up indubitably works best when it is running its guns, not its mouth.
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Movie Review: The Bourne Ultimatum - What's In A Name?— Jason Bourne could kill James Bond using nothing but a tea towel and a phone book.
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Men I Have Loved— It's never too late to start bragging about past relationships with celebrities...
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Harry Potter and the End
— We are left with a classic adventure which new generations will discover with love and joy, over and over again.
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Harry Potter and the Unbearable Weight of Expectation
— Rowling has managed to keep the magic going. In our hearts of heart we pray, “Please Lord may she not crap out on the seventh.”
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Mission Eradicated: A Musing on the Plague of Mission Statements— Must a person stop in the midst of processing the payroll and think "Am I collaboratively leveraging existing high standards?"
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Sense and Proportion: A Parent's Guide to Film — Somewhere society got the impression that it is easier to raise children in a sensory deprivation tank...
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TV Movie Review: SciFi Channel's The Last Sentinel— You get a good grip on what awaits you in The Last Sentinel when the fight choreographer is listed in the opening credits before the
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Movie Review: The Namesake— Like every story about a family, it is actually many stories, the stories of each member of that family, together and apart.
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TV Review: The Tudors - Gee Cardinal Krupke (An Ode To My Favorite Tyrant)— Henry has had an ongoing image problem... most of his portrayals seem to involve gratuitous eating of turkey legs and copious amounts of "off with
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Movie Review: 300 Spartans vs. The Modern Media-cracy— How arrogant and self-centered do you have to be to see American history reflected in every story?
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The Higher Power of Scrotums: Book Drives Librarians Nuts!— My impulse to a scandal like the one over The Higher Power of Lucky is to organize an All Animal Bottoms story time...
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Academy Awards LXXIX: The Wrap-Up— Ellen’s hosting was as safe and bland as an American cheese sandwich on white bread with the crust removed.
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79th Academy Awards: As Certain as Death and Taxes— ... vote Democrat long enough and you learn to separate the concepts of "winning" and "quality".
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Ehren Watada, Abu Ghraib and America's Conscience— The Geneva Conventions, the Gold Standard by which a country's behavior in wartime is judged, were suddenly being dismissed like a frivolous, annoying Kyoto Treaty.
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Studio 60 and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre— When Aaron Sorkin sucks it’s like listening to a four-year-old tell a joke.
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Movie Review: Crack Is Whack, But Crank Is Lethal— It’s like Speed, except with a person instead of a bus.
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Make Your Own Holiday Movie— Need a Christmas movie fix? Don't wait for the Hallmark Channel to save you. Make your own using this easy recipe.
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Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest Arrrg-ives on DVD— It's hard work being a pirate movie. The author looks at some swashbucklers of yore and reviews the new Pirates of the Caribbean DVD.
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From The Vault - Songs That Make My World Go Round— The author discovers a great not-so-new book which inspires her to ponder what it takes to be a great song.
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TV Review: Hex
— Spend the entire day watching BBC's Hex marathon or read this review? Decisions, decisions.
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Nostalgia Trip: A Wistful Look at the Current Season of Battlestar Galactica— On Battlestar Galactica and the dreaded Aaron Sorkin Syndrome.
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Movie Review: The Queen— Review of new Stephen Frears film reveals author's embarassing amount of superfluous knowledge about the British Royal Family.
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Battlestar Galactica: In Defense Of The Best Show On Television
— While you're busy searching for quality television, you might be letting the best show on TV pass you by.
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Movie Review: The Tender Trap— A wonderful 50s and 80s flashback.
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Fall 2006 Movie Trailer Review: The Last King of Scotland, Catch a Fire and Children of Men— No need to wait. Start your Oscar handicapping now.
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Movie Review: Don't Miss Brick— ...I still find myself musing over what became of the characters after the title credits roll.
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