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All the fun of the fair
I’ve also finally achieved a great aim of mine- I’ve completed watching season one of Carnivale. Thankfully it was a cable series and therefore 12 episodes rather than 22 or the completion of the...
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Flobadob, ickle Weeds
Part of the reason why I’m a huge fan of Weeds (asides from Mary Louise Parker, assorted other hotties, the music and the amazing dark humour) is that I feel that I don’t have to worry about it...
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The Cast System
I’ve noticed some rather strange casting in television and film lately. Whether they don’t make sense due to accent, age, beauty or race I want someone to clear them up for me- or at least for writers...
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The drugs don’t work
It’s a rather festive (and boozy) time of year right now, St Patrick’s Day was on on March 17th, and the Spring Equinox, Holi and Purim (the Jewish festival of drinking so much red wine that you...
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Fag Hags and Lesbros
A little while ago I wrote about platonic friendships between straight men and women on TV, and how few and far between they are. There is of course space for a different exploration of cross-sex...
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Wedding Bell Blues
Everyone seems to be in the grip of Royal Wedding Fever, but I remain happily immune. It did get me thinking about depictions of weddings on television though, and how rarely they’re allowed to go...
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Early dawning, Sunday morning
Sundays always seem to come too soon, and with them the sad knowledge that the weekend has to end. Nonetheless they can still be a day of fun, and of pouring over the search terms that lead people...
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We’re not in Kansas any more
A lot of people’s first response to Azerbaijan winning the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest was along the lines of “where’s that?” or, possibly, “that’s not a real place!”, and then- upon googling- it was...
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Jew Crew
Shavuot falls on June 7-9 this year, and it turns out I know nothing about it. And now I feel like a bad Jewish atheist. (It’s not a contradiction in terms, it’s a real thing. There’s even a Wikipedia...
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Afternoon delights
Tis a lazy Sunday afternoon and as is my duty every two weeks (unless I can palm it off onto a Playmate underling), I am wracking up worrying browsing history in an attempt to understand and mock...
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Hot Fun in the Summertime
Apologies for our absence of late, but it’s summer and we’ve had jaunting and frolicking to attend to. And then sunburn and insect bites and bruises and so forth to tend to. It’s the summer hiatus...
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