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John Doe has the upper hand.

October 31, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

There are rumours of a prequel to Se7en, probably my favourite film of all time. I have duly shat myself. [tags]se7en prequel, virtue[/tags]

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Movies

The price of: rice-a-roni; parking; aiming high

October 31, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Bob Barker’s been hosting The Price Is Right longer than I’ve been alive, but he’s decided to hang it up next year. I bet he’ll be really good at grocery […]

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Entertainment, Environment, Toronto, TV

(3 x 0.4) + (3 * 0.08) = 1.44

October 30, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

We watched a movie called Layer Cake (imdb | rotten tomatoes) last night. It was pretty good; I described it to T-Bone as a movie Guy Ritchie would make if […]

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Daily life, Dumbassedness, Environment, Friends, Movies, Religion

F**k

October 29, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

F**king Firefox just f**king crashed and I lost a huge f**king post that I’d been writing for half a f**king hour. I’m not writing that f**king thing again, so you’re […]

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Food / drink, Movies, Toronto

Pepsi sounds kinda like peptic. Coincidence?

October 28, 2006by Dan Dickinson 2 Comments

I just can’t get over American political attack ads. Check out this example from the Globe and Mail: “If Brad Miller had his way, America would be nothing but one […]

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Family, Food / drink, Movies, Politics, TV

I told everybody when I came out the wilderness

October 27, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

The new Be Good Tanyas disc Hello Love is good. The new Walkmen disc “Pussy Cats” Starring The Walkmen, a tribute to the Harry Nilsson album, is not good at […]

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Music

It makes sense that the guy who owns gapingvoid.com would understand Hollywood

October 27, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Once again, Hugh hits it out of the park. [tags]gapingvoid, hollywood[/tags]

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Dumbassedness, Humour, Movies

Babel-icious!

October 27, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

I just won tickets to a screening of Babel next week. All I did was list my favourite scary movies in a comment on Toronto Life’s Screening Room blog. Just […]

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Movies

"My two lovely friends"

October 26, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

It’s true: Deal Or No Deal is the dumbest game show ever. It’s so dumbed-down, and requires so little brainpower from both contestant and viewer, it makes Wheel Of Fortune […]

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Food / drink, Religion, Sports, TV

TViva

October 26, 2006by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

The new TV On The Radio album Return To Cookie Mountain and Viva Voce‘s Get Yr Blood Sucked Out are both very good. [tags]tv on the radio, return to cookie […]

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