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In a world… where everything… is the best or worst thing of all time… one man… fought… for mediocrity. Srsly, Internet. After almost a century of Academy Award shows and 31 years of Razzies, how has no one thought to award the most mediocre movies and actors of the year? It’s the bloodiest battle! I [...]

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I think The Sun Also Rises is the book that aspiring writers should read at age 19 or 20. I was in Europe on a train from Paris to Brussels with the pastoral landscape sweeping by; suffice to say, it was a three-dimensional book at the time. (The story takes place in Spain, but every [...]

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I wish Twitter had just three mandatory boxes for information: Name, Occupation, Liked/Did Not Like Waiting for Godot. No longer would I have to sift through three days of tweets to make my irrelevant decision on whether or not to follow them. (Self-awareness point.)  Barney Stintson has his Lemon Law, I have the Godot Guide. [...]

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I’ve read a bit of African-American literature, but not enough for Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Skype me. I’ve seen a few black movies, but not enough for Spike Lee to give me a fist bump. I clarify myself because any time a white man endeavors to make a “Best Of” list for black art, [...]

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Quentin Tarantino is a maddening director. His cinephilia is more well-documented than his movies themselves, and if you haven’t read about his humble movie store origins, you need only to watch his allusion-packed movies to love him or hate him.  His movie obsession, which comprises most of his movies anyway, does bring a potential problem: [...]

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