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Casting “Fiscal Cliff: Part II”
I really had no intention at all of saying anything about the national embarrassment that was the so-called “Fiscal Cliff” negotiations. But this morning, a friend of mine posted a tweet that...
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Tweet of the Day: #R.I.P.JackKlugman
When I first saw this tweet from The Onion, I chuckled: Depressed Nation Really Did Not Think It Would Take Them This Long To Get Over Death Of Jack Klugman http://t.co/EadW8MSG — The Onion (@TheOnion)...
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“The Hobbit” Redux
This is frickin’ hilarious! Ok, so, last month I wrote about my experience having seen The Hobbit in IMAX 3-D at the new local multiplex movie emporium, wherein I put forth the proposition that these...
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Movie Scene Doppelgänger: The Futility of Trying to Recreate a Magic Moment
So, rewind a few weeks, to February 2nd, Groundhog Day to be precise, and, as corny as it sounds, my family and I watched, as we do every year, the 1993 Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day. We’ve watched...
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Video Fridays: The Eagles
This week’s Video Fridays installment is very much a companion piece to last week’s. Like the music of the Steve Miller Band, mentioned a week ago, The Eagles, in my opinion, suffered severely from...
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Tweet of the Day: @JohnCleese
If, like me, you’re a fan of Monty Python, I think you’ll enjoy this. Informative, funny, and touching. Many thanks to Eric for his lovely blog commemorating 50 years of friendship....
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Best of Fish & Bicycles: Phil Ochs: Is it ever ok to give up?
Originally Published: August 9, 2011 I try really hard to keep things positive here at Fish & Bicycles. There are already plenty of blogs and websites out there wailing about how bloody awful...
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Hamlet Mashups: Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit
I’ve mentioned several times, here at Fish & Bicycles, that I concentrated in Shakespeare while working on my bachelor’s degree in English, most notably in my October 2011 post concerning the film...
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The Dystopia Fetish
Have you ever had one of those experiences where you’ve been quietly tolerating something that really bothers you for a long, long time, but then you suddenly, in a dramatic moment, realize that you...
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Video Fridays: The Sapphires
It’s been several weeks since I saw the wonderful film, The Sapphires, at Bellingham’s own art house emporium The Pickford Film Center, and I just can’t stop thinking about it. I went into the...
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Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation … Trailer Review?!
So, apparently, reviews, not just of movies, but of movie TRAILERS, is now a thing. There’s even an entire website dedicated to this new form of journalism. I feel so old. I mean, I remember when...
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Video Fridays: Mountaineering, Monty Python & My Son The Rock Climber
It’s been WAY too long since I wrote about My Son The Rock Climber! That’s him six years ago, age 12, in the lede photo here, climbing on the wall we built for him in his bedroom. By the time this...
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