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January 20, 2012
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I’m actually glad I watched this: New Tricks (BBC)

In praise of New Tricks

November 11, 2011
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The Celebrated Rubber Chickens of Dingo Dizmal and Ms. Olive Rootbeer

I have decided, by the way, that my rubber chickens will be purple and you cannot stop me.

October 12, 2011
By vommarlowe
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What the hell did I just watch: Birds of Pretty I mean Birds of Prey

Now, I’d heard this show was pretty bad. But lots of people hate comics TV on general principal and it garnered a lot of viewers before being inexplicably wiped off the air. So I thought maybe it was just the usual insular bitching and moaning about continuity or whatever.

September 19, 2011
By vommarlowe
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Avatar the Last Airbender: a very fun American anime! (kind of)

Flying bison! Bat eared flying lemurs!

August 26, 2011
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Waterlilies: Paintings in Context

Those paintings took up so much space it was like the whole world had gone blue and green and full of light and weedy flowers and if you got close you could see all these brushstrokes.

Illustrated Wallace Stevens — Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores

Text by Wallace Stevens; Art by Vom Marlowe.

The Roundtable Has Pants: Pantless Pants

Being a critic is kind of like writing an autobiography. It’s an arrogant act to say, Listen to meeeee, for what I say is important! The thing is, what I say isn’t all that important. I’m not going to be in the majority on this one, and I doubt that many people will care about [...]