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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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Where We Were When The Towers Fell
Note: Originally Published 9-11-06 Five years ago on this day I was teaching at East Gaston High School in North Carolina, just outside Charlotte. …
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When You’re Cool Like Me
Note: Originally Posted 7-14-06 When you’re cool like me, you’ve got this insatiable urge to write a review on every book you read. I…
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The Inexplicableness Of My Movie Predilections
Note: Originally Published 7-23-06 I like to post reviews of movies I’ve watched. I do it because I want to help you. I know…
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And You Call Yourself A Planet …
Note: Originally Posted 8-24-06 In an amazing and historical event, 424 astronomers (which is less than five percent of the global astronomer community) voted…
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My New Favorite TV Shows
Note: Originally Posted 10-18-06 If you know me personally, you already know I’m perpetually behind the curve when it comes to all things, “cool”…

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