Monthly Archives: January 2011

Everyone tell Zack how awesome he is.

Cause he is. Just ran his first official half-marathon today: 1:51:52. Represent!

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Heckuva Job, Terrace Agenda…

Heckuva job!1!

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Belated Oscar Nominee post

The good thing about having a really awful year for movies is that most of the stuff that deserves to be recognized actually is. I haven’t seen The Fighter, Toy Story 3, or The Kids Are All Right yet, though … Continue reading

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Agenda Movie Club: Marwencol

Marwencol Jeff Malmberg 2010 Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. – Mark Twain So, this is a documentary. This is its subject: This guy, Mark Hogencamp, was a … Continue reading

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Un muchacho debajo de una mesa!

Just started Spanish 1, Lesson 1 from Rosetta Stone. I totally have gatos, perros, and caballos down. Anybody else used this thing? How did it work out for you?

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Agenda Movie Club: Made In Dagenham

Made In Dagenham Nigel Cole 2010 “Equal pay for equal work.” Goodness, it just doesn’t seem like it should be that hard, does it? But STILL women aren’t paid the same as men. And we just signed the Lilly Ledbetter … Continue reading

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Et tu, Carlos?

Holy crapola! The Cubs sure are in trouble now. Of course you’ve all heard about the huge mob bust that just went down. Well, I pulled up one of the lists of indictments and what I found was shocking. First, … Continue reading

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Agenda Movie Club: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist Peter Sollett 2008 Caught the first part of this on TBS the other day and it took me about 10 minutes to figure out if I’d seen it before. Hmm, ok, there’s Michael Cera, I … Continue reading

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Agenda Movie Club: Cropsey

Cropsey Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman 2009 This is streaming on Hulu, so I checked it out because Roger Ebert has it on his list of Top 10 Documentaries of the year. I’m not quite sure where he’s coming from. Not … Continue reading

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Agenda Movie Club: A Single Man

A Single Man Tom Ford 2009 What do we do when the other one dies? Sooner or later, one of the two of us will have to find out, barring some bizarre accident. What then? And is it better or … Continue reading

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