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Twenty years of reading, watching, writing, and asking questions. Explore my latest essays, book and movie reviews, and dispatches from the world of The Chronicles of Purgatory Station.
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The Rocker – A Movie Review
Within the first ten minutes, the creators of The Rocker make it readily apparent after Rainn Wilson punctures the top of a van with…
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The Easter Parade by Richard Yates – A Book Review
In The Easter Parade, Richard Yates delivers a well-crafted and well-written novel with the bluntness and mercy of a rusty scalpel. Yates allows us…
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Y: The Last Man: Whys and Wherefores by Brian K. Vaughan – A Graphic Novel Review
This final installment to the Y: The Last Man series left me both unsatisfied and disappointed. Y: The Last Man started out as a…
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Baby Emma By Aunt Dixie
Several weeks ago we received a mysterious package in the mail. I saw it came from my Aunt Dixie, a very talented artist who…
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The LOST X-Man: A Brief Comparative Study of Wolverine and Sawyer
As a connoisseur of all things unimportant, I recently contemplated the similarities between The X-Men’s Wolverine and LOST’s Sawyer. Here’s what I came up…
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Appaloosa – A Movie Review
This western directed by Ed Harris stars both he and Viggo Mortensen. It also costars Renee Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. I remember aching to…
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