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Ode to Yahoo Answers
What was Yahoo Answers? That’s a good question. Yahoo Answers was a different kind of library. Libraries are often glorified as the sum of all human knowledge; Yahoo Answers was the sum of all human ignorance. Libraries are full of vetted, edited, tweaked, bought and sold words. Yahoo Answers’ words were picked straight from the…
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Getting Emotionally Attached to Sharon Van Etten
Singer song-writer Sharon Van Etten has been active in the music scene since 2009, but for her seventh album, she decided to embark on a new conquest: creating a band. After jamming with fellow musicians, Van Etten formed a band called Van Etten and The Attachment Theory. The new band released their self-titled album in…
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Happy Fortieth Birthday, Re-Animator!
Stuart Gordon’s horror cult-classic Re-Animator (1986), an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s titular novelette, turns forty this year, cueing a moment for reflection and retrospection. The movie tells the story of Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), a new student at Miskatonic University enamored with reanimating dead tissue. He meets Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), a promising fellow student…