Bruno and Moliere: Comedy without Apology
When we laugh at our vices and failures, why must we insist they be fixed, or even be fixable?
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Posts by Peter Fenzel on Overthinking It
Super Smash Bible
Can Nintendo characters make EVERYTHING more fun?
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The 10 Best Things About America I Learned from Independence Day
Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!
Michael Jackson, 50, and Farrah Fawcett, 62
The greatest recording artist of all time and the dominant fantasy woman of two decades of American life died today.
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The How of Who
Are you a good Deus Ex Machina, or a bad Deus Ex Machina?
Pixar’s Up: Paradise Lost at Paradise Falls
What goes Up must come down.
Jack Bauer in the Age of Obama
Jack Bauer and 24 still bestride TV like a colossus. A hoarse, belligerent colossus that clasps men by the lapels and thrusts them floorward, but a colossus nonetheless.
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Fenzel on Dragon Ball #2: On Chosen Ones and Super Saiyans
You have to read it. You’re the Chosen One. It is your destiny.
The 10 Easiest Things Dance Songs Ask of You
Go ahead. Brush your shoulders off. It doesn’t get any easier. Or does it?
Bea Arthur (1922–2009)
Goodbye, Bea Arthur. Thank you for being a friend.
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