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Spider-man, Stallone, and Fast Five

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you might have heard that Marvel Studios have come to a deal with Sony Pictures to insert Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What does this mean? That Spider-Man is going to be in movies with Captain America, Iron Man,…

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02/15/15

Favorite Movies of 2014

I’m squeaking this last list in just under the wire. Of the two I’ve already done, this one definitely comes with a couple of caveats. First, there are several films I would have liked to have seen, but short theatrical runs aligned poorly with time I had free to go to the movies. That’s a problem that comes around pretty much yearly, though the trend of films getting to VOD or streaming faster…

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12/31/14

Favorite Music of 2014

Rather than explain why these albums were my favorites of 2014, I’ll just leave a sampling from each here so you can see for yourself. Enjoy!
Jenny Lewis The Voyager
The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams
Shakey Graves And the War Came
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12/24/14

Favorite Books of 2014

2014 got away from me as far as blogging goes, and posts have been… sparse around here. How much that changes in 2015 is still up in the air, but until then I wanted to at least finish the year with the ever-ubiquitous Favorites lists. I don’t have any intention to present this (or the movies and music ones that’ll follow) as comprehensive or definitive, it’s just nice to gather a list of those…

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12/20/14

‘When Christmas Comes’ by Los Campesinos! is my new jam.

12/18/14

‘The Juliana Hatfield Three’ by If I Could is my new jam.

12/12/14

High court rules that English/Welsh prisoners should be allowed to read books

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Tory justice secretary Chris Grayling enacted a ban on sending reading material for prisoners as a way of throwing red meat to his base, who bay for maximum cruelty to “bad people” — but a high court judge agreed with English PEN and the John Howard society and struck down the ban.
The case was brought on behalf of Barbara Gordon-Jones, imprisoned for arson, who holds a PhD in literature and wanted to read Alan Bennett, Monica Ali and the dialogues of Marcus Aurelius.
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