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Misgivings
Guillermo del Toro, in 2006: I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don’t like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits — I’ve never been into that at all. I don’t like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff.” Guillermo del Toro, in 2008: “Contributing to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ legacy…
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Baseball and Technical Difficulties
It may already be apparent to some of you that alexirvine.net is undergoing a time of travail. I’m not sure why, but with any luck it will all be sorted out soon. One of the downsides of the online merchant-customer dynamic is the difficulty of actually finding a human being who will admit to being…
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To the Barricades!
Elements of the French intelligentsia are agitating for the abolition of the semicolon. Barbarians. And speaking of barricades, on Sunday we (by which I mean L and myself) went to the Public Theater‘s Public Lab for a play called Paris Commune. Improbably, it was a musical. Even more improbably, it was a pretty good show.
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Man, I Hope This Is True
Although their work from adapted sources sometimes doesn’t measure up to their inspired best, the Coen brothers are still among my favorite filmmakers, and who better to take on Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union? The Tigers have won three in a row! The last a 13-2 annihilation of the Cleveland Indians. It’s hard to…
Crooked House Fictions 