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Other People Stealing Your Ideas Without Ever Having Met You or Knowing that They Stole Something Part 2
Mini-Review (no exclamation mark) Yet one more instance of the Bookshelf® being a step ahead of the mass media. Last week, the latest “internet phenomenon movie,” 300 released its first official trailer. Without judging the movie, of which I only know a marginable amount, it looks like someone decided to make a bluescreen movie, but […]
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The Current Gas Prices
Lest The Bookshelf® return to its former rant-happy ways, here’s one with some general positivity. What with gas prices getting higher than friend of The Bookshelf® and noted ginger ale enthusiast J Calloway at a ginger ale festival, it looks like we’re back to more reasonable numbers on the boards. The $2.399 low price in […]
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Once Again Being One Up on the Mass Media Or The Critical Reception to Jackass: Number Two
It’s well known that aside from some misinformed old-cootedness about video games, we hold Roger Ebert in pretty high esteem around these parts. His cancer-surgery-turned-surgical-complications has taken him out of the reviewing game since mid-summer, and though no announcements have been made, I’m guessing he won’t be back until “Oscar season” starts in mid-November. Regardless, […]
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The Death of WKAP
WKAP failed in its bid to be the real version of WKRP. It was not based in Cincinatti. Call me lame. I like oldies music. Not like the sleepy old easy listening fifties stuff that you’re used to thinking about when you think of AM radio. I’m talking about the British Invasion of 1965, the […]
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Pirates Magazine Premier Issue – The Cover
The first in what might be a series of reviews. I was at the bookstore the other day, more-or-less stocking up for what ended up being a fictional trip to China, and after picking out a selection of books, I wandered over to the magazine section of Borders. The goal of magazines at a newstand-type […]
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Fancy-Schmancy Pet Food
If they’re good enough for gourmet food, they’re good enough for Iraq. Photos courtesy of www.petsinuniform.com. Check out their “exotics” page TODAY! I’m curious to see what The Bookshelf’s current vet-in-training has to say about this, if anything. I don’t understand the appeal things like this. Yes, that’s right, “premium holistic gourmet dog and cat […]
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Putting Things on Notice
I’m calling you out, Andy Dick! I read on a semi-well-known TV blog that this guy created an internet page that generated Stephen Colbet-style “On Notice” lists. All you have to do is type in whatever you want to put on notice, hit a button and a picture will be generated that you’ll be able […]
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Thinking of What’s Probably the Best Possible Thing to Put in a Going Away Card Ever
I don’t mean to pat myself on the back….well, okay….yes I do. Someone I know who is from Switzerland (the French-speaking part, for whatever that’s worth) and spent the last few years living in the US is moving back to Switzerland very shortly. A blank-on-the-inside going away card was passed around, and it was obvious […]
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The Unfair Critical Treatment of Former Boy Band Members
Let’s see if I can get out some reviews for once… I’m not being profound when I say that success is a great way to turn the less successful against you. In the burgeoning field of critical criticism, this fact is no more obvious than with music critics. Movie critics are relatively high profile (notably […]
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“Rewriting History”, or “Pluto no longer a planet and Yogi stops smoking”
Just when you though I wouldn’t be able to find a picture to go with these two topics…. BAM! A few days ago I read that Turner is going back through their catalogue of old Hanna Barbara cartoons to remove all intimations of smoking. First of all, I’m not really sure how they’re going to […]