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cynicism

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2007 MTV Movie Awards – Part 1

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 6, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

If you ever have occasion to go to an awards show put on by one of the many companies in Hollywood, including but not limited to the Oscars, the MTV Movie Awards, the Golden Globes, or Satan's Top Ten Celebrities of the Year Awards, here's a little advice I have to offer, based on my [...]

Airport Citrus

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m in Blacksburg for a day and a half before heading back to Richmond for the John and Vanessa Nuptial Extravaganza (I’m counting on well stocked liquor supply to tide me over until I’m overcome with utter fascination at the spectacle of two people coming together for tax purposes). Oooh, that was cynical, wasn’t it? [...]

Family Science

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 28, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

I have a sunburn that would make lard on a southern griddle hold out for just one moment longer out of a sense of camaraderie. It’s one of the more bizarre physiological sensations to experience heat emanating from your skin in waves, but when I looked at my shoulder in the mirror I had to [...]

Mothballs and Deep Throat

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

So Deep Throat was not that Jerry Hardin guy from the X-Files after all, but a second in line at the FBI named Mark Felt. The press is trumpeting the glory call of old time triumphs–the takedown of an American President, whose perfidy as Commander in Chief came to define the beginning of the 1970’s [...]

A Valentine’s Day Massacre

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 14, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Today, the obvious holiday with some unobvious advice. Those of you who still believe in true love might not want to read this. I am partially joking here, but partially not. I walk a fine line on the whole love issue to begin with, and Valentine’s Day tends to tip me over the edge into [...]

Curb Your Enthusiasm

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 3, 2004 ⋅ One comment

I just bought season one of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the HBO half-hour comedy show created by and starring Larry David, creator of Seinfeld and real life inspiration for George Costanza.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is acerbic humour at its finest. Where Seinfeld positively reinforced our love of nothing, CYE savagely bites the hand that fed it, [...]

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