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Family was alright - better than it has been in the past.  Everyone was congenial, everyone wanted to get along, so we did.  My mother argued with my cousin about whether you can quantify education.  They compromised and kept arguing, and the rest of us ate.  It's how to shut us up: feed us things.  I was pleasant.  It required me feigning great ( Read more... )

I just saw an ad for Zune (the MP3 player) with all these Zunes standing in what looks to be a graveyard, dormant.  Then one starts sending another one a song, and soon they all have the song, and they're all alive and showing videos and blah blah blah.  Anyway, I mention this only because on one of the Zunes, there's a Hello Kitty-style panda and ( Read more... )

I was going to do this on books, but then realized that I don't read enough, or really care enough about literature as a world. 
So I decided to do it with movies.  Bold are the ones I've seen.  Italics are the ones I want to see.

Movies.com's list of 25 Most Controversial Movies:

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I love Hail to the Thief, it's the first album of theirs I got and I have a certain fondness for it... I bought it in a Borders in Wall Street that we entered to take refuge from the downpour.  I associate Hail to the Thief, thus, with a cold and dreary, ambitious New York.  A gray romanticism.  Anyway.  Here's the full lyrics of the above song - a ( Read more... )