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Coen brothers at home with nitwits, lamebrains
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Brad Pitt stars in the Coen brothers’ “Burn After Reading.”
September 23, 2008
If you’re the least bit into the spy genre, you’ll remember a hit theme song that began, “There’s a man who lives a life of danger.” The series, “Secret Agent,” and the crafty Coen brothers have turned household paranoia into a near international crisis.
After a long-time CIA analyst bored by bureaucracy quits rather than accept reassignment due to “drinking too much,” Oz (John Malkovich) decides to pen his memoirs. On the same playing field, his wife (Tilda Swinton) has an affair going with Harry Pfarre
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The Flatwoods Monster extravaganza
September 23, 2008
In early September many communities throughout West Virginia will be preparing their annual celebrations of pumpkins, black walnuts, apples and other folksy charms. Blue ribbons will soon adorn all manner of livestock and baked goods and the people w
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Manchester Orchestra rocked my socks off
September 23, 2008
The first time I saw Manchester Orchestra was more than a year ago in Cleveland. The Atlanta, Ga., band was opening for mewithoutYou at the Grog Shop. I had discovered their debut, “I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child,” only a month or
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Top five fall trends we probably couldn't pull off
September 23, 2008
Fall is in the air, meaning fashions are changing just like the leaves. This season layers are key, but that doesn’t mean a person has to look like clothes suffocate them. New shapes and slimming designs have arrived and the students at West Vi
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Top Headline Poll
Which Coen brothers film is your favorite?
The Big Lebowski
28%
O Brother Where Art Thou
16%
Fargo
16%
Burn After Reading
8%
No Country for Old Men
12%
The Man Who Wasn't There
0%
Barton Fink
4%
Raising Arizona
16%
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My first Harry Potter experience: An open letter to Mr. Potter
Fri, August 8, 2008 @ 10:43AM
Dear Harry Potter, I finally started reading your dastardly wizard tales. Well, I wasn't really reading them. More like listening. But anyway, don't take it personally. I still haven't read "The Da Vinci Code" either. I have a hard time buying into huge cultural trends when I'm not on the ground floor of them. It's a personal fault, don't hold it against me. But my girlfriend more than makes up for my lack of interest. She spent the days leading up to the trip organizing a way to ship a Gryffindor blazer from a southern Illinois Hot Topic to one in Chicago, because it was on sale from $50 to $11.95. And she was the one who finally talked me into doing what no one before her had successfully done: Give you a chance. I'm some ways into the first book, but I have a confession to make. I think you're kind of boring. Your friends, Ron and Hermione, are much more interesting, as is Dumbledore, Haggard and even Malfoy. He
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Book Wishlist for October
Tue, August 26, 2008 @ 9:58AM
I know, it's not even September yet! But looking ahead to the new releases of late September/October, here's the ones that caught my eye. Oh, and in case anyone's wondering, a lot of the Christmas books make their debut in October. So I'll have plenty of time to read and recommend the good ones before Dec. 24! 1. Sunshine by Robin McKinley - this is apparently a reprint, but suddenly I'm hearing a lot of good things about this book - a kind of survivalist against the vampires book. 2. The Christmas Cookie Killer: A Fresh-Baked Mystery by Livia J. Washburn - Someone's knocking off old ladies at a cookie exchange. I'm going to up the irony by reading this while eating Christmas cookies. (; 3. Blood Lite edited by Kevin J. Anderson - Whimsical horror tales compiled by the Horror Writers' Association and containing such authors as Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kelley Armstrong and Sharyn McCrumb. I like whimsical horror! 4. Found You by Ma
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Into The End...
Thu, June 12, 2008 @ 10:23AM
Into The End: I was born in Oxford but grew up in Marietta, Why Douglas Adams will always speak for me (even in death), or Why I haven't slept since January 2005 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams I was born in Wheeling, West Virginia at four o’clock in the morning on September 10th, 1984. I moved to Cincinnati when I was two and then moved to Martins Ferry, Ohio at 5. At 18, I went away to college for my first year, came back home over the summer, and then moved my family to Parkersburg, West Virginia. In the fall I returned to Oxford to finish college, lived a summer in London, England, and then spent a y
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Video game football
Tue, August 19, 2008 @ 11:09AM
Sometimes i wish there was a version on madden where you didn't have to be the quarterback. I'd like to be a diva wide receiver. You know, so i wouldn't have to play every down. I could take snaps off, blow my blocking assignments and have to go back and get lectured by the QB. You could have mini-games where you see how many bench presses you could do in your driveway for reporters. Or be an offensive lineman. I play as the New England Patriots and keep accidentally falling down so i could get a front seat view of some ugly sacks on Tom Brady. After the game have to face questions from one reporter who got there too late to talk to the running back. But, ideally I'd be a kicker. I could watch TV while playing and only have to pay attention enough to see if i need to trot out there for a quick boot. If you make it, all your virtual teammates slap your helmet. If you miss, you just have to stand out there a little extra time and hit the "Feign Disbelie
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