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| Volume 9, No. 32 |
May 17-23, 2008 |
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 Summer Sneek Previews
America has become the land of cultural comfort food.
In a time of economic upheaval, seeming war without end and constant warnings of impending environmental doom, is it any wonder?
We troll for TV hits of yesteryear on the Internet, mining the future for connections to the past. The fiction sections of bookstores are stuffed with characters appearing in their fifth, 10th, 20th novels.
New television shows find it almost impossible to build an audience as viewers turn year after year to shows they’re already familiar with.
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|  The VideoPhile #21 Under-the-Radar Films: Idiocracy
Mike Judge hasn't been a secret for a long time. The man that gave the world "Beavis and Butthead," "King of the Hill" and the cult-classic comedy "Office Space" never seems to miss when swinging his creative bat; he's always hitting homers to wide audiences.
Why, then, has hardly anybody seen or even heard about his last film, "Idiocracy"?
If you're unfamiliar, "Idiocracy" is a satirical comedy loosely based on the idea of dysgenics, or the progressive, evolutionary weakening of a population of organisms.
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|  Party Spy: What's Up's Undercover Party Provocateur
Birthdays are like heartaches. They’re not that big a deal if they’re someone else’s.
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| Oh god, yes … yes, oh god, YES, YES!
Or: How to order sex toys the Christian way
It is with a great deal of anticipated pleasure that I, at last, bring you word of a Christian marital aids website.
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