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September 2009 Archives

'Dollhouse' returns and hits the ground running

Last year Joss Whedon's Dollhouse (starring Eliza Dushku) started off slowly, with a disturbing premise and a main character who was impossible to identify with and initial episodes that were plainly "mission of the...
 
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September is Serial Killer Month: New Dexter book, season, game

A few years ago it might have seemed odd to root for a serial killer, but Dexter has a certain way about him. A disturbingly entertaining way.In Jeff Lindsay's original novels, Dexter Morgan is a...
 
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Beatles remastered and Rock Band'd! Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again...

For the next several weeks, expect a sizeable portion of the world to have Beatles songs stuck in their heads.Today the Beatles hits the music stores again with all 13 of their UK studio...
 
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A month? Forget it. Can you write a novel in 3 days?

Regular readers know I've been pimping and participating in National Novel Writing Month for several years now. You take the month of November and crank out 50,000 words of hopefully readable text. It's fun and...
 
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