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Avatar Review Part II

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 12, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Since I’ve already written one Avatar review while I was sober, I decided to take a crack at part two of my “Defense Against Religious Environmentalism” (DARE) writeup whilst under the influence of at least half (if not more) of a bottle of fantastic Malbec from Argentina. If I can stumble through with a modicum of my original thesis under wraps, I’ll consider it a good week.

Yes, Swahili Sue, There Is A Santa Claus

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

What happens when you give Swahili Sue a generous grant of two thousand American? Sue, with the entrepreneurial spirit of her long-necked ancestors, is able to collect shiny pebbles, paying the kids of distant tribesmen sweatshop wages to gather shells (dead animals or bullet casings, either one), while her cousin, the one who owns the funky bodega (which he secretly runs a Nigerian email scam out of), sells her radiator wire from junked and burned out vehicles.

Avatar

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 6, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Just to be clear, I’m not opposed to sentient, even highly-intelligent life on other planets living in harmony with nature and a tree Goddess. I can dig on aliens who say prayers over the animals they kill (hey, I’m part Native American, I get it). I understand foreign fauna who cry when they have to [...]

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