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May 22, 2009

Gender Differences, part 657

Just noticed over the course of a lifetime, though perhaps just in my narrow experience or my still narrower imagination, a subtle difference in how the shock-driven harrumph is expressed:

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Posted by Matthew Hogan at 10:16 PM | Comments (3)
Filed Under: American Culture , Egghead Stuff , Irony Watch , Random Personal , Rants- General

May 13, 2009

Lawrence Olivier - Lawrence Olivier = William Shatner

So went an old actor algebra snipe I read somewhere. Which while humorous, I do disagree. But this person here says what I want to say:

The insufferably cerebral and moralistic elements of Star Trek have been bad enough to make even devoted fans wince many, many times, and if the acting often seemed weak it might have been because so few actors can credibly recite some of the drivel generations of actors have been forced to say over the decades.

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Posted by Matthew Hogan at 06:40 AM | Comments (0)
Filed Under: American Culture , Egghead Stuff , Random Personal , Rants- General

May 02, 2009

Probing Fears and Medical Tests

Three things I fear about the standard prostate exam:

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Posted by Matthew Hogan at 07:06 AM | Comments (1)
Filed Under: Random Personal , Rants- General