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Well, that "500 Days of Summer" post must have really taken a lot out of me since it's taken me TWO MONTHS to get back on my blog.  Let's see, what's happened since then?  I took my star turn as Frances in "The Sun Also Rises" to Sarasota where the old people loved us and the young people fed us dangerous mai tais.  I swam in the gulf of Mexico with the very large dive-bombing pelicans.  I missed the Equality March in D.C. so I made my fellow company members stage our own protest (with...

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And so the time has come to talk about the movie "500 Days of Summer."  I have put this off because this movie makes me angry.  Really, really angry.  I have already listed some of its offences in the misuse of whimsy.  Now it's time to face the demons and add an entry to my "Heterosexuals having trouble" category.

(Warning – many plot points of the movie will be discussed below.  But the upside is if you read this then you don't have to see it.)

We are told at the beginning of this movie that...

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So I'm on a bit of a food investigative kick.  And I have a few ideas about why this is proving to be really interesting to me right now, but mostly I'm trying not to question it and just to go with it.  I'm hoping in the end it's going to help me make some peace with the kitchen, a place I have never understood or felt any need to understand (kind of like the treadmill, what's the point?).  I think it's hard for a woman with any kind of consciousness of what women have gone through in the...

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Now I am a big fan of your well-employed whimsy in a film, say your "Royal Tenenbaums," your "Amalie," I would even argue that one of my all-time favs, "My Own Private Idaho," is pretty whimsy-centric.  But whimsy used for evil instead of for good… oh boy, there is just nothing worse.  Actually, the place where whimsy-users often go wrong is by just throwing it in there without backup or a coherent vision.  You can't just toss in some random arty animation and a musical number and expect them to

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Today we need some of this right now:

Thanks to David Zinn and the magic of Facebook for bringing this important information to my attention.

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What happens when Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr team up against Twitter in what should be a simple afternoon "photo shoot?" This film – from the twisted minds that brought you your favorite "man eating a sandwich made of ladies" movie – Colosi, Villalobos, Scelsa, and von Holt – may confirm all of your worst fears about social networking. Whatever you do, keep your cold, clammy grip on that iphone…

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Logo recently gave these hilarious cutie youtube stars their own show.  Of course, I think the only difference is that Logo provided them with a slightly nicer webcam, but still – if Cole continues to do his Bernadette Peters impression I'll be happy.

This means, Logo Network, that I can almost forgive you for canceling "Exes & Ohs." which wasn't the best show ever in the whole world, but at least it had a sense of humor and women who looked like real lesbians (and, imagine this, some who actuall

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Happy Pride, people!

I am going to take the occasion of NYC Pride (which I actually went to this year – imagine that!  Usually I can only work up the energy to walk out my front door as the one float in the Brooklyn Pride parade rolls by.  Wife and I are going to wear our "just married" shirts with two ladies on them.  As long as the issue is timely I think we can still call ourselves "just married"…) to comment on some gay stuff.  Since that other topic of my blog, cats and kittens (also koalas

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I’ve been neglecting my mission of offering my very important rants to the world of the interwebs for the past couple of months in favor of focusing on actual un-blogged, non-virtual life which somehow took me across the world to a continent I never thought I would visit.  Not that I never wanted to, I just never gave it much thought, because, well, it’s on the other side of the world!  I think maybe that’s why people were more impressed when I told them I was going to Australia than any other c

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Well – what I really want to post about is what life in Australia doing “Gatz” with ERS has been like for the past month, but I simply have so much to say (and so many pictures of koala cuddling to post) that it’s going to have to wait a bit more.

Meanwhile, life in the good old USA spins on without me, and just gets more bizarre.

This yesterday in the Daily news:

LOS ANGELES – The legal eagles who fought on opposite sides in Bush v. Gore want to walk down the aisle together in federal court to ov

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