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Hard to believe, but I was almost completely unfamiliar with David Mamet's Oleanna until less than a month ago.
I've seen two live productions of it in the past four weeks (one in Hamilton, the other being the excellent recent Soulpepper production), and I can't stop thinking about it. Oleanna is, of course, either the most misogynistic play ever ( Read more... )

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It would appear that I gained some serious weight over the Xmas holidays. Or, somehow, throughout January.
I can't think of any other explanation why several pairs of pants of mine, which I know for a fact fit me fine a few short months ago, are painfully, ball-crushingly tight now. (One of them is even a relatively new pair that I bought in ( Read more... )

And here I go again, commenting on news and events a week after everybody else has forgotten about them...

Here's what Michael Moore had to say about Ricky Gervais' hosting stint on the Golden Globes last week:
MIKEFAQ: "What did you think of Ricky Gervais on the Golden Globes?"Although Moore makes a valid point here, it's worth pointing out that ( Read more... )

When Leslie Neilson passed away a couple of months ago, it made me at least curious to see a few of his better movies again. Neilson was known as the contemporary king of deadpan, and his reputation was justified: he had a way of delivering ridiculous lines so straight and seriously that you had to laugh. The only comedians I can think of who could ( Read more... )

What, has it really been three weeks since I last posted here? Looks like LJ is not one of my top priorities these days ( Read more... )

As 2011 begins, things aren't looking so bad. Although I have less money saved than I had a year ago, I have a decent-paying new day job that appears to be working out, so catchup is not unlikely. My credit rating now appears to be at a point where I can move to a decent new apartment without fear of sudden rejection. And for the first time in ( Read more... )

I should be reading or doing something creative, but instead, I'm doing this meme, courtesy of nonstrvngartist1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

And so we wave farewell to 2010 ( Read more... )

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