I am a film and music librarian for a public library system. Like many of my kind, I suffer from RKS, or Random Knowledge Syndrome. These musings are the inevitable end result of that condition.
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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.
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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