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An iPad 3 is soon headed for my house
I didn’t pre-order the latest Apple tablet, but I am planning on picking one up locally in the next few weeks, depending on availability. I’m planning on a 32-gig black iPad with wifi only. My first one was a wifi … Continue reading
New GAME OF THRONES trailer
Tyrion’s words to Cersei sent a shiver down my back, and I love the look of him in his armor walking among the troops. Bonus points for using Florence + the Machine’s “Seven Devils” as the music. Season two of … Continue reading
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Publishers should give away ebooks with print books
Readers today are forced to choose between buying a physical book or an ebook, but a lot of them would really like to have both on hand – so they’d be able, for instance, to curl up with the print … Continue reading
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This week’s NEW YORK TIMES hardcover bestsellers
What’s at the top of the heap this week. 1. HOME FRONT, by Kristin Hannah. (St. Martin’s, $27.99.) A woman’s husband and children are challenged when she is deployed to Iraq. 2. PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT, by James Patterson and Maxine … Continue reading
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Disney/Marvel says “F*ck you” to the creator of Ghost Rider, sues to impoverish him
Bastardly corporate behavior at its worst. How can those assholes live with themselves? This much is certain: Gary Friedrich created the Marvel comics character Ghost Rider. Freidrich sued Marvel (and its new owners, Disney) because he claims that he never signed … Continue reading
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Trailer for ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER
I couldn’t finish Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, so I didn’t even bother with this book (and I probably won’t). But the trailer looks like it might be kind of fun. It seems they’re taking this seriously rather than making … Continue reading
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The only tool in the Republican arsenal: lying
It’s not even that what’s now coming from the right consists of 100% emotional, fear-based appeals without a factual basis. In 2012, a campaign of suggestive fear-mongering seems almost quaint. It’s that the Republicans have staked out a position that … Continue reading
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Cheese with my Nazis, please. The trailer for IRON SKY
This looks like a lot of fun. A total campfest with some surprisingly good special effects. I first heard about this years ago and figured it either never got released or was released only overseas. Looks like it’s headed our … Continue reading
