At first it was Lynn Winstead, Chuck D and
Rachel Maddow. And then Air America shook its lineup up, eased Winstead and Chuck D out of the door, and gave Maddow the morning slot. A few months later, they shook things up again and gave her the drive home. The schedule changes didn’t make any [...] Read more »

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Diesel makes me yearn for a Mystery Science Theater, but for commercials:

The first signs of this were the Budweiser radio ads featuring a rousing Bob Seeger-ish pseudo-rock song that climaxes with the refrain “This is Budweiser… this is beer.” I mean, what is up with that? I half-expected someone to chime in at this point, [...] Read more »

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As reported by GamePolitics, a Detroit prosecutor has issued her list of
top-ten violent computer games you shouldn’t buy for your child this Christmas, which is fine, but the list is kind of … old.
Topping my list of worst games for kids would be State of Emergency, the game where you mow down mall shoppers [...] Read more »

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We’ve been warned away from the
Golden Compass film because of it’s
anti-Christian overtones by someone apparently unaware that there are atheists, pagans, and other non-Christians in her audience. I loved Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials set and thought it surpassed the Chronicals of Narnia for thought-provoking young-adult writing.
But apparently a lot of people [...] Read more »

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You know, I wouldn’t blame you if you had given up on
The Anvil and Sprocket Movie Review ever updating again, but we’ve had a few new posts:
I reviewed
1408, the Stephen King movie with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson, Miss Chordia did
The Quiet Earth, and Sprocket reviewed
Next starring Nicholas Cage. Read more »

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