Category Archives: EXCELLENCE

Generation Muppet, or: An Open Letter to Jason Segel

Dear Jason, THANK YOU.  You made a Muppet movie.  A real Muppet movie, or, more accurately, a real next generation Muppet movie—reverential without being slavishly so, cheerfully anarchic, gleefully absurd, true to the tone of the original Muppets while still being something new.  Something sweet and hilarious, smart and simple and the most genuine fun...

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YOU SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY (EVE)

One year ago Wednesday—on July 6—This Must Be the Place was unleashed upon the world in all its teen angsty, Joseph Cornellian, Harryhausenesque, wedding-caked, Foreigner-soaked glory. I’ve never had a problem with birthdays, probably because I’ve been waiting my whole life to achieve Awesome Old Lady status (wherein I write mystery novels, know everyone in...

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Because I needed another reason to love Jon Hamm with every fiber of my being

Herman Dune “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” from Jon Hamm

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