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My favorite part of seeing a movie that I’ve seen a thousand times before is watching the extras. That’s when a movie gets really good. When you love a movie and you’ve seen it a gazillion times before, like I have with, say, Tommy Boy**, the scenes become totally familiar to you. Popping that movie […]
September 5, 2012
I would love to see MMA fights resolved with compliments. There’s no reason why this can’t work. Granted, nothing about most mixed martial artists says “My love language is words of affirmation.” But it’s not impossible. I would never suggest that people with flawless takedown techniques and jiu-jitsu skills do not also deeply crave verbal […]
January 17, 2012
Click here to get the free eBook ‘Posterized’ in all formats, including iPad, Kindle, Nook and Sony Reader. BANDWAGON Something about shopping turns grown men and women into two year-olds. This is what I’ve learned during my retail career at a sports department store chain.** If you want to see a fully developed human person […]
December 24, 2011
The free eBook version of ‘Posterized’ is delayed a few weeks while it winds its way through the approval process at Amazon/Barnes & Noble/Apple etc. But in the meantime, for those of you jonesing for a print copy (I make no money from the sale), you can purchase one here: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/posterized/18774827?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1 Whichever version you choose, take […]
November 26, 2011
Are you feeling a CF eBook collection for a Christmas gift this year? A way to posterize every other present under the family tree? 200 pages of special goodness- fresh content, a brand new essay- ‘Bandwagon’- and all for free? Of course you are. Santa delivers it for the Kindle on Dec 18th. Earlier if […]
September 29, 2011
I always struggle for an answer when people ask what I wanted to be when I grew up. This is partially because the answer changed a lot. The question of vocational destiny is a moving target in childhood, owing as much to what toy they have played with most recently as to serious deliberation on […]
June 9, 2011
Comic books have it right- sometimes, the best decision is a reboot. The reboot has rescued dozens of beloved characters from dead-end storylines, like Batman, the cast of Star Trek, Shaquille O’Neal and Menudo. I dig the reboot solution because it’s both elegant and direct. There’s nothing convoluted about it- we’re scrapping everything and starting over. But it […]
May 9, 2013
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