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It saddens me to report that Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's.

I'm not a rabid Pratchett fan, but I've certainly read and enjoyed several of the Discworld novels, as well as his collaboration with Neil Gaiman, Good Omens. It's terrible to have something like this happen to anyone, but especially someone whose ( Read more... )

The title of my post is taken from a regular column at Comic Book Resources, and it is true. Comics should be good - comics, in fact, should be great. The comics medium allows for everything from the equivalent of action movies with an infinite budget to intimate character studies to crazed surreal rides through bizarre landscapes of the ( Read more... )

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For anyone who might still be reading this and doesn't know already, I found myself gainful employment a couple of months ago. I'm working with the Database group at Pearson Custom Publishing in Boston, itself but a small division of the massive international textbook publisher Pearson Education. We make customized texts, primarily for college ( Read more... )

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The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - October 5

The Darjeeling Limited - October 5

Michael Clayton - October 5

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - October 12

30 Days Of Night - October 19

No Country For Old Men - November 9

Southland Tales - November 9

Beowulf - November 16

I'm Not There - ( Read more... )

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New Wes Anderson movie: The Darjeeling Limited

I love me a new Wes Anderson movie.

Friendships and relationships are hard to maintain, I think, for the simple reason that all of us are, in the end, replaceable. No matter how much it hurts when someone leaves your life in one capacity or another, your psyche will soon enough scab over, and another person will come along to fill that briefly empty space. The stakes in any given ( Read more... )