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August 29, 2025: Friday 10

Glen August 29, 2025 4 Comments

Let’s take another week to set my music player on shuffle and see if you guys can guess the artists and titles! There’s lots of great stuff in the list…

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Hot Movie Take for August 25, 2025

Glen August 25, 2025 No Comments

If your movie goes over 150 minutes, you owe your audience a musical production number.

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August 22: Friday 10

Glen August 22, 2025 2 Comments

Fun fact: I’ve been blogging since before the social media boom made blogs a seemingly-quaint curiosity, and I’m thrilled to see Gen Z (and last-wave Millennials) turning to blogs as…

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We Are Monster High

Glen October 31, 2024 No Comments

Also, for real, Justice for Frankie. The third movie was all set up to be about them and then it never happened. We still need that.

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Classic Glen: On Thumbs, Monkeys, and Lettuce

Glen June 27, 2024 No Comments

“On Thumbs, Monkeys, and Lettuce” was originally published as part of Jim Bronyaur’s “12 Days 2010” project, featuring stories by 12 authors — each one basing their story on a…

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Hot Movie Take for March 27, 2024

Glen March 27, 2024 No Comments

Jennifer Love Hewitt was an absolutely fine comic actress, y’all were just mean.

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She’s Everything. He’s Just Nominated

Glen January 26, 2024 No Comments

There’s a lot at work around the news of the Academy nominations for the 2024 ceremony, so I thought I’d take a moment to look at them. But first: Let’s…

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I’ve Got a Tape I Want to Play

Glen January 10, 2024 1 Comment

We had fallen into a habit where music was either the background hum of our day-to-day lives, or just a little reward for doing the things we all have to…

Movies

How Did This Happen‽

Glen January 10, 2024 No Comments

If you asked me what the most interesting website on the internet was, I wouldn't be able to tell you. It's too difficult to pick out one. Maybe it's YouTube…

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