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Blogs
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Marginal Utility: The Authenticity Fetish
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Music
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:. Dufus: In Monstrous Attitude
:. Eric Roberson: Music Fan First

Events
:. Dethklok + Mastodon: 12 November 2009 - Houston, TX

Film
:. Me and Orson Welles

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Books
:. The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
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Comics
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:. The iPhone’s online identity crisis
:. ‘Public Enemies’ a good, but not great, effort by director Michael Mann

Reviews

Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley

By P.B. Samuelson

Despite the brilliant and clear wit that characterizes Buckley’s writing, the humor fell short here, confliced by a desire to simultaneously satirize and redeem America's system of government. [7 December 2008]

Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

By Jason B. Jones

Against such a backdrop, it must be unfathomably difficult to develop ideas and plots that remain wholly satirical, rather than lapsing into mere realism. [30 April 2007]