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Kennie JD: One of the Best Things About YouTube
I’ve been hanging around the edges of YouTube for years and years, and for a long time, I was a snob about it – imagine me, a snob. Back in its early days, I saw YouTube was kind of the junk drawer of original content: so many people doing so much stuff, with no rhyme...

This Wretched Valley: survival horror with great promise … and something missing
I just finished Jenny Kiefer’s This Wretched Valley, by first-time novelist Jenny Kiefer … and I almost liked it. But there was something missing… and I wonder if anyone else felt it, too. You remember the podcast, Talking Scared, that I reviewed a while back? They...

Henry Thomas and the sequel to E.T. (no, really)
Here, come on down the rabbit hole with me. I went looking for some background on Henry Thomas for a review of The Fall of the House of Usher… and found an entirely different little gem: a very short, very special sequel to E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, posing as an...

How to Solve the Problems with the Emmies, Oscars, and All the Awards: Burn Them to the Ground
Let’s face it: all the entertainment awards shows, from the Oscars and the Emmies to the execrable Golden Globes are a terrible mess. Such a mess, in fact, the only decision might be simply to burn them all down and start over. I’m not usually an extreme kind of guy....

Maggie Moore(s) is Jon Hamm at his best …and there’s more where that came from
Jon Hamm has been doing some very cool stuff for the last couple of years --- and the smart, sweet, funny Maggie Moore(s) is a perfect example. This tight, quiet, smart little mystery/comedy/thriller has been knocking around for a few months, but it’s just been added...
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