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By this time Monday, every woman and New-York gay in America will have seen the movie Sex and The City. Seriously. This thing is going to make a bazillion dollars. It’s insane! And I’m going to see it too.
Because I am a tool to corporate America and its commercialized onscreen romances.
But I already [...]

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I have resisted mightly, strenuously even, from commenting or linking to or in any way acknowledging the article that every navel-gazing blog and meta-media commentator has been buzzing about for the last week. But I can’t resist anymore. it’s been Chinese water torture … drip, drip, drip … for seven days. [...]

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Calgary Herald (via Slog) is running a story on the resurgence of the headscarf as a fashion statement. The Herald — giving some pointers on how to wear your latest Louis Vuitton accessory — tries very hard to posit this latest fashion craze as some sort of harbinger of a new administration:
It reminds us [...]

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– Catch the Mennonite and Amish quit exhibit at the Denver Art Museum.  Then wonder how much you could get for the graduation quilt Grandma made for you. [Exhibit runs through July 13]
– Dance your ass off to the best Mennonite electronic dance band since … well, ever. [Oops, too late.  You missed them.  But [...]

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Randomly listening to radio stations in a ZipCar is great fun … because I get to hear all sorts of music that I would never, ever, in a million years come across on my own (since I don’t listen to the radio). And every once in a while, I hear something I really like; [...]

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This is SO silly… but god bless the people who record and post specific soap opera story lines so that I can watch them at my leisure on YouTube. There are the US ones (Nuke! Just kiss already!) that I don’t have the patience to sit through at my lunch hour; there are [...]

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So Eliot Spitzer, the habitual high-class hooker visiting, possible condom-forgoing, soon to be ex-Governor of New York resigns yesterday and puts the third African-American, first legally blind governor (in the nation!) in place and all we can chat about is his wife (oh, and also the hooker). Seriously, people? WTF?!

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Doonesbury
Lio
Pearls Before Swine
Get Fuzzy
Mutts

…. and an extra: for all your critical comic commentary needs

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Here we are at last. Despite the strike, the last-minute scramble for plane tickets, designer duds, and the whitest, most depressing slate of movies in a long time, the Oscars are really here.
I’m taking a cue from the big guys and liveblogging the Oscars (mostly to see if I can do it but also [...]

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I use to love the Oscars. The hype, the glamour, the awful, the tasteless, the bad, the glorious, the heart-warming .. loved it all. Except, the last few years, I think I’ve loved it a little less than I used to. And I’m not the only one.  Even the gays might [...]

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