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Check out this TV Show

2008-02-08T16:31:57Z

I haven't updated in a very, very long time...but I would like to take a moment to draw your attention to a new TV show, which premieres this evening. Free Radio will begin tonight (Friday, 2/8) at 9:30 on Vh1, which will air two back-to-back epi...

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Poetry and Hygiene on the Radio

2007-12-12T07:54:59Z

I was very happy this evening to learn that my good friend Pete Miller was interviewed on Seattle's NPR station. He runs a great Seattle organization called LOCCAL (League of Citizens Concerned About Literature) and one of their first projects wa...

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Great Springsteen Article

2007-10-01T14:48:43Z

So, naturally, I will be commenting on the great new Bruce album, Magic, in the coming days and/or weeks. However, until then, here's a really good article from this weekend's New York Times about it. I really like A.O. Scott as a film critic--i...

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Literary Item that Makes me Happy

2007-09-18T22:25:24Z

My favorite writer has a new novel out, and I just picked it up...for some reason, I thought it was coming out in November, so it was a real happy surprise to stumble upon it. This is his first "proper" novel in ten years (not counting the wonder...

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This Will Surely Be Good (Favorite Place in LA Now Has a Movie Edition)

2007-09-09T07:06:49Z

My favorite place to see music in LA (possibly of anywhere I've lived, for that matter), Largo, seems to have a movie coming out. Based on the trailer, too, it looks like the film will capture what makes it so special: Over the years, I've se...

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This Movie is Good (Best of Summer Edition)

2007-09-01T03:30:54Z

It slid just in under the wire of the seasons, but I think I may have just seen my favorite movie of the summer. I've seen some good ones over the past few months (notably, Superbad, which is also fantastic), but after seeing this movie, I was sp...

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Musical Item that Makes me Happy (#3)

2007-08-30T21:22:18Z

Coming out in October...performing in LA in December...

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When There is No More Room in Hell

2007-08-16T15:12:34Z

So, with my ladyfriend out of town, I indulged in a mini horror movie marathon last night, with my frequent co-hort for all things nerdy. Instead of watching any recent movies, we played catch up with two classics that, somehow I have never seen...

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Jammin' on the One

2007-08-11T20:46:23Z

It took a lot of doing, and it looked like it might not happen, but I managed to get a pair of tickets to the instantly sold-out Stevie Wonder concert at the Greek Theater...Needless to say, I am particularly happy--both for myself, but especially...

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In Honor of the New Poet Laureate

2007-08-09T05:35:59Z

This is just about a perfect poem, in my book. By the new Poet Laureate, Charles Simic.

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