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The Unofficial DaveWeigel.com Oscar thread, brought to you by Moviefone.com
Congratulations, Moviefone -- you popped up first on my "Oscar list" google search. BEST PICTURE Will win: Avatar, because it's the biggest-grossing film of all time -- did you suckers realize that receipts ...
A Few Words About This Blog
That would be a few more words than have appeared on this blog lately, right? So, what happened was this: Like many twentysomething white male Americans who live in the 202 area ...
The Gore Presidency: A Look Back
Keeping up my theme of responding to Matthew Yglesias's blog posts, I've often wondered how a President Al Gore--i.e., an Al Gore who won over an extra 600 Ralph Nader voters ...
The 84* Best Movies of the Decade
So here's what happened. From (roughly) January 1, 2000 to January 1, 2009, I saw hundreds of movies, probably half of them contemporary. After the new year, I decided that I would ...
Comic Book Adaptation of the Decade
Matthew Yglesias says it's "Iron Man," which I think is reflective of the back-loaded bias of so many decade retrospectives. "Spider-Man," which came out seven years ago, is clearly the adaptation ...