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• Arthur Koestler

  by Tammy on February 29, 2008

  A post by Maynard Arthur Koestler has lately caught my eye. He is best known for his anti-totalitarian novel, "Darkness at Noon", which you may have read in high school. Koestler's personal odyssey broadly echoes Tammy's: Struggling with emotional issues...

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• No Country for Old Men

  by Tammy on November 19, 2007

  Maynard goes to the movies If you take movies seriously, this one needs to be on your radar. It grabs you by the throat and never lets go. It's fascinating in the way that watching a rattlesnake strike is...

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• I, Claudius

  by Tammy on October 30, 2007

  A post by Maynard For them that are interested in such things, I'll put in a word about one of my very favorite mini-series of all time. That would be the 1977 BBC 13-episode Masterpiece Theatre production of I,...

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• The King of Kong

  by Tammy on August 26, 2007

  Maynard goes to the movies You boys and girls know about the X-Men, don't you? They're a collection of comic-book mutants, each of whom possesses a special power. In real life, we also find people who develop extraordinary skills....

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• The Dangerous Book for Boys

  by Tammy on July 12, 2007

  A post by Maynard This book, The Dangerous Book for Boys, caught my eye. It also has a website, DangerousBookForBoys.com. Not having read the book (I've passed well beyond the target demographic), I'm not in a position to comment specifically....

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• John From Cincinnati

  by Tammy on July 7, 2007

  Maynard checks out the new HBO series What the heck is "John From Cincinnati"? The title doesn't exactly beacon you in. In fact, I was ignoring the whole thing until I noticed that David Milch was behind the show, and...

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• Thieves in the Night

  by Maynard on June 16, 2007

  A post by Maynard But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the...

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• Grindhouse

  by Maynard on April 19, 2007

  Maynard goes to the movies On Wednesday's show, Tammy briefly skewered this film, juxtaposing its excessive violence against the murderous rampage at Virginia Tech, and touching on the cultural degradation and normalization of the unspeakable. She was pleased to...

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• “300”: Fact or Fiction?

  by Maynard on March 26, 2007

  A post by Maynard The movie "300" (based upon Frank Miller's graphic novel) tells the tale of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. For a time, 300 Spartans, led by Sparta's King Leonidas, stood against the vast armies of...

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• Youngblood Hawke, and Other Musings

  by Maynard on February 8, 2007

  A post by Maynard PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF LEV. XXV X.— inscribed on the Liberty Bell (citing Leviticus 25:10) I'm reading Youngblood Hawke, another novel by the amazing Herman Wouk. Written in 1961,...

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• Apocalypto

  by Maynard on December 21, 2006

  Maynard goes to the movies Mel Gibson is a cinematic genius. That's the long and short of it. Apocalypto is a violent, intense, disturbing odyssey that will not be for all tastes. It tells the story of a rural...

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• Raising Arizona

  by Maynard on November 9, 2006

  A lapse by Maynard I need to step away from politics for a moment. Politics will drive us crazy, because it's always focusing on how the other guys are up to no good and we've got to beat them...

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• Idiocracy

  by Maynard on September 28, 2006

  I needed a moment's break from the reality of a world full of angry, stupid people. This movie promised me ninety minutes of a world full of people that were merely stupid...

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• The Settlers

  by Maynard on September 24, 2006

  Book review and comments by Maynard I'm jumping the gun here, being only a bit more than halfway through reading this book. And the book in question is not only not new; it's not even currently in print. But...

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• A Scanner Darkly

  by Maynard on July 28, 2006

  Maynard goes to the movies This weekend I caught the creepy, dystopian A Scanner Darkly (and they've got a MySpace page and of course an IMDB entry as well). I'm going to recommend it most highly to myself, but...

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