Author: Molly Templeton

Making Beautiful Mock

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So I’ve come to the conclusion that this year (and I bet I said this to myself last time, too), I will listen to what the presidential candidates say, I will listen to what (non-insane) commentators say about them, but I will not, under any circumstances, listen to what they say about each other. I’m just not interested in that aspect. And I don’t care who’s the prettiest or the emo-est or the toughest or the sensitivest or the … OK, stopping now, because it’s irrelevant to this post and I can’t hang my entire unfair distrust of one particular candidate on one very Bushlike quote. Continue reading →

Sweet Victory

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What did you do over the holidays? Whatever it was, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t quite as cool as this: Tolkien’s Battle of Pelennor Fields recreated … in candy. Choice quips from the post include: “For two days the evil host, under the brutal licorice fist of the Witch King of Angmar has bombarded the ancient city with stone and fire.” Continue reading →

Our World: Tiny, Round

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The world is flat, right, we all know that. The world is also very small. The latest example of that is this: I have a good friend in Brooklyn who has a pretty expert grasp on my taste in, well, most things, or at the very least books, movies and music. Continue reading →

Oh, DUCKS.

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We interrupt Suzi’s politi-blogging with this totally needless whining: Oh, Ducks. Oh, Ducks, Ducks, Ducks. Way to throw the game away. All those turnovers! Not drawing the fouls! What the hell is going on with Tajuan Porter? Why can’t they shoot threes OR make free throws? What happened to Kamyron Brown that he couldn’t hold on to the ball? Totally unnecessary last-few-minutes commentary after this here jump. Continue reading →

SEND HELP: I Need This Song Out of My Damn Head

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I’m sorry. I just had to create sympathizers. See, I watched this video the other week, and it got stuck in my head. Really stuck. Then I went to see Enchanted on New Year’s Eve, and the song got really, REALLY stuck in my head. I just finished my review of the film (it’s charming and sweet but still suffers from some Disneyesque flaws), and I wasn’t kidding when I wrote that I go to bed with the damn song in my head and I wake up with it still there. I can’t. Get it. Out. Continue reading →

It’s the Most Debatable Time of the Year

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This is totally awesome. Totally wicked awesome, even. It’s a massive spreadsheet of critics’ top picks for movies this year. I don’t yet understand why some names are in purple and some in blue, but I don’t really care. It’s still fascinating. Out here in the relative boonies, of course, half these movies have yet to arrive, even ones that have already opened elsewhere — and in regular ol’ chain theaters, no less! Continue reading →

Second Day of Giftmas: Yes, I’m Behind a Day

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Problem: It’s really hard to write Giftmas posts when I, er, haven’t been leaving the house (except to go to work, of course). But the whole idea of Giftmas posts in the first place was sort of inspired by the staff wish lists some of us made for Suzi that then didn’t make it into last month’s gift guide, so, hrm, what did I have on there? Well, a lot of vague things, includng a pretty winter coat, the perfect black cotton cardigan and the even-more-perfect elusive pair of black, knee-high leather boots. And for some network to produce a fourth season of Veronica Mars. Continue reading →

From the Inbox: Miscellany, with Hobbits

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What with the one-two punch of Winter Reading and the Procrastinators’ Gift Guide — which, naturally, I procrastinated working on — my inbox has been slowly and steadily filling itself up with interesting yet uncommented-upon things. Thursday late morning is as good a time as any to post a rundown of a few Items of Note I’ve been unintentionally ignoring until now: Continue reading →