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Category Archives: TV

May 9, 2014 Canceled

Look, I get that making TV shows cost money. I know that studios have to be able to sell commercials to pay for all of that, and I understand that TV studios don’t exist to provide entertainment exclusively for me. But this canceling nonsense has to stop. There has to be a better way! I […]

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May 6, 2014 Tuesday 11: Favorite Fandoms

It’s my 42nd birthday today, so I thought I’d take what that number portends and talk a little about my favorite things I’m a fan of. I don’t have the energy (or memory!) I once did to memorize all kinds of facts and figures, so my participation these days is more passive. At the same […]

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April 30, 2014 Dire TV: Snog, Marry, Avoid

“Snog Marry Avoid” works on a sound premise – a natural look is better. The show claims to target people who are too reliant on fakery – fake tans, fake eyelashes etc. They also target “fashion disasters” and as a fashion disaster myself, I’m interested to see where they take that. They can have my […]

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April 29, 2014 Tuesday 7: Breaking Bad Characters

This is a list in progress, as we’re only halfway through season three, but it’s occupying a lot of my brainspace these days. I don’t know that there’s anything I can say about the show that hasn’t already been said, so instead of trying I thought I’d do a list. I don’t think there are […]

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April 25, 2014 Stories Are Important

One of the games I’m playing these days is Assassin’s Creed Liberation. It’s set in the latter half of 1700 in New Orleans and Mexico, and the main character is Aveline de Grandpré. She is of French and African heritage, born to a French father and an African slave mother. Aveline was raised in a wealthy environment and was later […]

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