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Many people said exactly the wrong thing an effort to get me to watch “Community.” “It’s so meta!” “It’s totally off the wall!” “It’s got a big cult following!” “The characters are really wacky!” “It gets really dark!” “It’s a lot like ‘The Simpsons!’” These statements all also describe “Family Guy,” a series I detest with…
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I put this up on another site a couple of years ago, but I liked it then and I like it now. Kushner is one of my favorite writers and I sort of figured I’d never get a chance to pick his brain again, so I kind of asked him something mildly inflammatory in the…
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The combined IQs of all previous entries in Capcom’s venerable series of “Devil May Cry” games might conceivably approach heights reached by one of the less interesting primates on an understimulated day. The gameplay was, nearly literally, all style—your character, Dante, came armed with two guns and a great big sword and the level to…
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Extremely high dude with a big blond beard, a gap between his front teeth, and an astonishing aroma who is wearing a very dirty coat and reading the travel section from a newspaper published God only knows when or where: How are you today, my friend? Sam: Oh, I’m fine, thank you. Stoned gentleman, with…
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It is always dangerous to go spelunking through your own brain and then write a book about your findings, but Alison Bechdel is frequently the person to do it. Her last graphic novel, “Fun Home,” was such a profoundly moving, insightful story that it had the capacity to totally spoil the reader for the graphic…
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Having spent many dozens of hours shooting, disemboweling, beheading, and bludgeoning a magnificent cornucopia of monsters human and otherwise, I think I can safely say that I like zombies best. In space, for preference, but I’ll take a good haunted house or cursed dungeon if the right one comes my way. Let me hasten to…
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Either the line for the bus or Ragnarok, can’t figure out which until the next bullhorn announcement.
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33rd and Lex.
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Madison & 33rd.
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The Hugo Boss store is the only building on the block—maybe the only building in Soho—with any power. You can see the TV playing in the window here, although everything else is closed. Lower Manhattan is mostly a few disaster tourists, the occasional northbound commuter, and display windows with beautifully coutured mannequins and security guards…
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