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The Best Lists of 2013 … or 1976

The end of the year always brings us plenty of lists. Nowadays, with the advent of social media, the lists are more personalized, specialized: My favorite reads of 2013, my favorite movies of 2013, my favorite celebrity nip-slips, corporate mergers, whatever. Numerous requests on Facebook to name the ten books that stuck with me left me confused and wrung out. Synapses misfired, bad memories floated up. Did I really love that book? Or was I just starved for entertainment as I rode the buses all night with nowhere else to go? The talk of lists got me thinking. It reminded me of when I was young and the end-of-year programming on the big three networks was peppered with “best of”

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Inaugural Blog

So, I’ve done it. I’ve entered the blogosphere, finding myself in a place I never thought I’d be. When I think about bloggers, I picture angry politicos spouting their tired and borrowed opinions on subjects I’ve never cared about—guys in sweatpants railing against Obamacare (or for Obamacare) in the quiet of a messy hotel room lined with canned food. Or worse, an opinionated self-appointed reviewer casting his shadow of personal failure onto a world that would never have him.  Those visions faded pretty quickly when my webmaster (crack goes the whip) told me I needed to have blog content on the new site. I realized then what most bloggers were—guys like me. Okay, bite your tongue on all those lonely

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Review: The Counselor

So, this week I went and saw The Counselor, the much-touted flick that had so many of us salivating for the past year while they teased us with clips. Before going, I did read a few reviews that managed to lower my expectations. Which, to be honest, were pretty fuckin’ high. You see, I love Cormac McCarthy. I was lucky enough to read No Country For Old Men and The Road before ever laying eyes on the movies. With The Counselor, I had no choice. The thing was written as a screenplay, under a veil of secrecy, directly for the big screen. A published version of the screenplay wasn’t even available till the movie came out. Cormac is a heavyweight

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