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April 8, 2011: The “Gleefully Lazy” Edition

PART ONE: I AM A LAZY BUM

PART TWO: KICKING AND SCREENING: GLEE: INTRODUCTION

PART THREE: KICKING AND SCREENING: GLEE: “PILOT”

Glee, Kicking And Screening

April 8, 2011

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April 1, 2011: The “OMGZ JUSTIN BIEBER IS SMEXY SO I WROTE A SONG FOR HIM AND HERE IT IS!!!!!!!!111jkjk” Edition

EPISODE SIX

PART ONE: OMGZ JUSTIN BIEBER SONG!!!!!!!

A Song

April 1, 2011

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March 27, 2011: The “Mommas, Don’t Let Your Zombies Grow Up To Be Homophobic Power Rangers” Edition

EPISODE FIVE

PART ONE: KING OF KONGS!

PART TWO: DIVERSITY,THE TITANIUM RANGER, AND ME!

PART THREE: MY FIRST BOOK!

PART FOUR: TO THE MOON, SHIRLEY!

PART FIVE: PLANTS VS. ZOMBIES (DS) REVIEW

PART SIX: TWENTY ANSWERS!

PART SEVEN: YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS AN IDIOT CLAUSE (AN OPEN LETTER TO VICTORIA JACKSON, PLUS AN ANNOUNCEMENT!)

NEXT WEEK: COOKIES, EVOLUTION, GLEE, AND BOOK REVIEWS!

IN COMMENTS:

Were you into Power Rangers as a kid? If you were, which series was your favorite?

How awful was my first book? Would you want to hear more awfulness?

Were you a fan of Humongous Entertainment?

Have you played Plants vs. Zombies, or other PopCap Games?

Are you a fan of Glee, and what do you think of Victoria Jackson’s critique?

Film Thoughts

March 27, 2011

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March 25, 2011: “The Goggles Do Nothing”

PART ONE: FILM THOUGHTS: THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS

NOTE: I misremembered the official Rickey’s website. The correct address is 800hotsauce.com.- RM

PART TWO: A READING: THE INTELLIVISION WINNER: A DEAD GRANDMA STORY

: ©Activision

PART THREE: TWENTY QUESTIONS FROM (AND FOR) TOMATO SURPRISE

Photo by Paul Stevenson, licensed under Creative Commons license

A Reading, Film Thoughts

March 25, 2011

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March 20, 2011: The “I’m Not A Zoologist, But I AM An Uncoordinated Historian” Edition

EPISODE THREE

PART ONE: BUS STOPS HATE ME.

PART TWO: NERD MARCH MADNESS!

PART THREE: “EL VESTIDO” AND THE GREAT BIG GENDER BINARY!

PART FOUR: TWO AND A HALF DEAD WHITE GUYS

PART FIVE: EVERYBODY’S LOOKING FORWARD TO THE UPDATES, UPDATES!

Via OK Magazine

BLOOPER ONE: THEY’RE MAGICALLY DELICIOUS

BLOOPER TWO: STUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

In the comments:

Any March Madness suggestions?

Why do many languages give inanimate objects gender, and what does this say about gender identity in those countries?

What challenges do you have for me over Spring Break?

What books/movies/TV shows should R.W. Mead and I discuss?

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March 20, 2011

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March 19, 2011: “Sunday Comes Afterwards”

Thanks to RacattackForce for designing the second of our two alternating logos!

Please forgive the noises you hear in the background, such as birds and vacuum cleaners. Hope they don’t detract from the post itself. Enjoy. -RWM

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

PART TWO: BLACK FRIDAY

If, for some reason, you haven’t yet, watch the music video for Friday:

PART THREE: A READING: DIRT NOT INCLUDED

Excerpted from From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War by Jerry Della Femina. ©1970, renewed 1998 by Jerry Della Femina and Charles Sopkin. No ownership intended or implied. Published by Simon and Schuster, New York.

PART FOUR: THE BURNING QUESTION: BEAR V. SHARK AND CLOSING

TO PROVE HIS POINT ABOUT HOW THE SONG IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SING WITHOUT SOUNDING LIKE A ROBOT (OR MAYBE JUST TO EMBARRASS HIMSELF), R.W. MEAD SINGS A VERSION OF FRIDAY A CAPELLA THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED “SWINGIN’”