‘So, Uh … Remind Me: What, Exactly, Are We Supposed to be Avenging, Again?’
The Avengers. It’s always bugged me. Not the group itself, which is the subject of Spring 2012 Joss Whedon film …
Hard Choices: Do Libraries Really Destroy Books?
Yesterday, an Australian blogger named S Peter Davis wrote a piece for Cracked (the surprisingly interesting online offshoot of the …
Uptight Is All Right: 3 Books For Finicky Folks
The air has turned cooler, the flip-flops are in the back of the closet, the sand is shaken out of …
Teen Tormentors Get Their Due In ‘Death-Ray’
Who are your enemies? Do you even have any? Unlike superheroes, everyday people living everyday lives don’t usually have nemeses. …
The Dad TV Comedy Really Needed, And He Trained With The Best
It really does make all the sense in the world. I was recently lamenting to a single-dad friend of mine …
Canning To Remember The Past, Welcome The Future
I don’t remember my first meeting with the man who will become my husband — he probably doesn’t, either. Not …
TV Check-In: The Fall’s Early Winners And Losers
Now that we’re a few weeks into the fall season, things are starting to settle. We’ve had a handful of …
A ‘Marriage Plot’ Full Of Intellectual Angst
Writer Jeffrey Eugenides laments the fact that he was born too late to write a novel about marriage in the …
Modern Horror Defined By Edgy Realism Of The 1970s
By the late 1960s, classic horror movies pioneered by Vincent Price and Boris Karloff had run out of steam. What …
It’s A Bloody Business, Being A Demon
It’s October, which means the country’s supply of fake cobwebs is getting dangerously low. The reason, of course, are the …
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