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Not All That Glitters Is Oscar

Yesterday, yours truly watched the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards on IFC which celebrated the year’s best in independent film. Though there were some similarities with the Oscar nominees, the Independent Spirit Awards prides itself in honoring those looked over and has a more international flavour. It reacts to “Hollywood” associations with dramatic disdain [...]

The Writers’ Strike Chronicles–Final Installment(s): The ‘Sex’ Effect

The Writers’ Strike may be over and our favorite shows may be coming back to a boobtube near you in about 3-4 weeks, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have to wait. Isn’t waiting just simply the worst? I think it’s even more upsetting that we KNOW that it’s finally over yet [...]

The Writers’ Strike Chronicles: My Story of Coping (so far . . . )

So as anyone who owns a television set (analog or digital . . . hopefully digital so you don’t have to go through the trouble of buying a subsidized converter in February 2009) should be aware of, there’s a huge writers’ strike that is currently the pain in everyone’s ass. I’m not going to tell [...]