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11 April 2011 ~ 3 Comments

The List: 5 Movies That Make Me Stop Flipping

We all have movies that we love, movies that we hate, and movies that we love to hate. But there is a special class of movie that will make us stop flipping channels and watch them. Here are 5 of mine, plus one that should but doesn’t, in no particular order. Wedding Crashers: What’s not [...]

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14 March 2011 ~ Comments Off

Guilty Pleasure: Pro Wrestling

I’m going to stop you right there. Right where? Right at the point where you were about to say any of the following things: “Pro wrestling is fake.” “Pro wrestling is for rednecks.” “How do you watch those ‘roided up freaks pretend to beat each other up?” “It’s still real to me, dammit!” I love [...]

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04 January 2011 ~ Comments Off

Guilty Pleasure: Andy Rooney

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If I think about it, I like to flip to the end of 60 Minutes on Sundays to watch Andy Rooney. If you don’t know who he is, Andy Rooney is an old curmudgeon that covered the Continental Congress when we were forming the country. He has a newspaper column too (a what?). Every week, [...]

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25 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Lost On Lost

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Lost is not a show that I watch.  I’ve never seen a single episode and I’ve never wanted to.  Yet, Sunday night, I found myself wondering how it all ended.  Mainly, I just wanted to know if it was all real or imagined.  Did everyone get to go home?  Did a tsunami come and wipe [...]

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16 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Survivor 20 Finale Preview

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My single favorite reality competition is Survivor.  I love the hypocrisy.  I love the cut throat action.  I love watching Colby rest on his laurels.  Tonight, one of the best seasons ever comes to a conclusion.  Season 20 has fittingly been an all star season.  Who wins?  Let’s examine them: Colby is the last remaining [...]

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04 January 2010 ~ Comments Off

Worst Cooks In America

After an over hyped 2 hour production of Iron Chef America on the Food Network last night, I discovered a potential new gold mine of greatness in the latest Food Network show “Worst Cooks In America.”  The premise is simple — scour the country for the worst cooks you can find, take the worst of [...]

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