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Why This Blog Isn’t About Christian Bale Anymore

I do not talk about myself on this website very often. I like using this website as a place to…

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Nathan Fielder & Halloween’s Satanic Origins

Let’s start with one thing: I am a Nathan Fielder fan. I watch Nathan For You continuously, always returning to…

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16Oct 202117 Nov 2021
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Every Large Adult Son on Succession, Ranked

Who is Succession’s Number One Boy? My favorite current television show returns tomorrow: Succession. I don’t know that I realized…

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Stop Saying the Book is Better Than the Movie

20 Sep 202220 Sep 2022
Except for when it is. One of the cheapest, easiest opinions a person can have is the broad statement “the book is always better than the movie” or, more in…
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Does Billy Joel Know What a Novel Is—and What the Heck Are Real Estate Novelists?

10 Apr 20229 Sep 2022
I don’t remember the first time I heard Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.” I don’t know if anyone my age does. I do recall one time I heard it on the…
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Understanding Sequels Through the Lens of Halloween

28 Oct 202117 Sep 2022
Updated in 2022 because there are even more sequels now. There are so many things a sequel can be these days. Reboot and requel are common descriptions accompanying many latest…
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James Bond, Fan Theories, and the Fragile Online Fan

26 Sep 202126 Sep 2021
I’ve lost track of three things: how many times I’ve seen Skyfall, how many times I’ve seen someone reference my James Bond fan theory on the internet, and how many…
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What Would Vonnegut Say About Cryptocurrency?

20 Feb 202121 Feb 2021
Or: God Bless You, Mr. Musk This is a question I keep asking myself: what would Kurt Vonnegut think of Bitcoin? Would he prefer Ethereum? Would he see the humor…
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Are Christmas Movies in the Eye of the Beholder?

28 Dec 202028 Dec 2020
There are certain things you can count on for the internet to deliver on a regular basis. The “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” conversation has become a permanent fixture…
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How Spectre Reaffirmed the Brainwashed Bond Fan Theory

31 Jan 202017 May 2020
Thanks for reading another installment of Fan Theory Friday! They’re not every Friday—and they’re not always on Fridays—but they are on some Fridays, sometimes. I come to bury Spectre, not…
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Why Does Obi-Wan Kenobi Lie to Luke Skywalker So Much?

9 Nov 201916 Apr 2022
A new fan theory about an old question My favorite fan theories are those that seek to answer the unanswered question. There are many unanswered questions in the Star Wars…
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A Minor Fight Club Fan Theory About Life Insurance

20 Oct 201911 Sep 2022
Or: Does Life Insurance Pay Off Triple on a Business Trip, and Why Would the Narrator Care? It has been almost twenty years since the first time I saw Fight…
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When a Prediction Becomes a Fan Theory

29 Sep 201917 May 2020
For the last several years, I’ve been banging the drum for one particular, unusual cause: pedantry regarding the definition of “fan theory”. While you can read one of several longer…

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