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May 31, 2011
My mom tried to convince me to watch Unstoppable a while ago but I declined. For some reason, I thought it was just a fancy version of the movie Speed. I have to admit here in front of you all that my mother was right and I was wrong.
In 2001, an engineer got off a slow-moving train to correctly line a switch. He thought he had set the train’s dynamic braking system but he hadn’t. The unmanned...
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Dumb Dewey and the fast train
May 27, 2011
Fastlane is a show about three cops.
(1) Van, an undercover cop who hates lying and grew up helping his dad forge currency and bonds, and who is played by Carlisle from Twilight, (2) Deaq, an undercover cop who used to be in a gang until he turned his life around, played by Bill Bellamy, and (3) Billie, their hard-ass boss who loves fast cars and low-cut shirts and used to be addicted to heroin, played by...
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And the Emmy goes to…
May 26, 2011
Here are two things you’ll need to know about me if you’re ever forced to explain me to aliens from outer space:
One, I’d take on all my cat’s ailments and her poor life expectancy right now if I could–she means that much to me. Two, I frittered away one whole summer a few years back getting drunk and watching I Know Who Killed Me every chance I got.
It’s true.
I watched...
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The grift that keeps on giving
May 23, 2011
Let’s just get one thing out of the way here. The main reason Twitch City is so great is that Molly Parker is lickable. Not likable (though she’s that too), but lick-able, in that she must be licked.
I am sure that everyone in the world will agree with me. Some will add that Callum Keith Rennie must also be licked, and I can’t argue with that. Don McKellar, though? Not so lickable, as...
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Twitch City – Lick Molly Parker now!
May 20, 2011
I love it when I pick up a book and feel that the author is a kindred spirit. That’s the feeling I got when I read PJ Jones’s Romance Novel.
Though some folks regard parody as satire’s hillbilly cousin, I’ve always believed that a smart parody can brighten any day. Romance Novel skewers romance novels (duh), vampire novels (easy target, but still funny), westerns, Sean Connery and...
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Swooning Smella and her heaving bosom
May 17, 2011
To me, the original Clerks is a smart examination of life in the Western world, cleverly disguised as a raunchy wiener comedy with a lot of Star Wars jokes thrown in. The dialogue is overwritten in some places, and it gets a little too zany in others, but when you look past Randall rattling off the titles of a dozen gross pornos in front of a little kid, or Jay making his Russian cousin Olaf sing...
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Clerks 2: A donkey show with soul
May 16, 2011
A friend and I just started watching the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica, and in only a handful of episodes it’s already become one of my favorite things EVER. The show is such a smorgasbord of wonder that I don’t know how to write a coherent post about it, so I’ll just list ten of my favorite things about it at random.
1. It came out the year after Star Wars, and it shows. The...
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“What kind of crime is starbuckin’?”
May 9, 2011
The best thing about Seattle-Geekly.com is that you don’t have to live in Seattle to get something great out of their podcasts. I have enjoyed their interviews with various sci-fi and horror writers and people like the curator of the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum, Shannon’s reviews of hideous horror films, Matt’s book and game reviews, and their promos for events like...
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Seattle Geekly: Local Flavor, Global Appeal
You have a limited amount of time, so why spend it reading about things that suck or are only kind of okay? Favorite thing EVER is not a review site. We're unrepentant fans, and this is the stuff we love. Hope you like gushing, because we're about to embarrass ourselves.
