Month: October 2008
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A Better HSM
High School Musical, like it or not, represents an enormously powerful and lucrative brand for Disney. I’ve tried to find numbers on how much cash that the behemoth (set to pop with its third incarnation coming to theaters today) has brought in, but no dice. I did see that the combined budgets of all three…
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Dirty Cheater
I’ve got a pretty long-standing love affair with video games. Although I liked playing them as much as most kids of the 80s, I think I can trace the obsession back to the fall of 1993. I was in sixth grade, and my friend Cliff bought Final Fantasy (the orig) for the NES at a…
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Moratorium: Invoking Reagan
Easily one of my least favorite subplot of the upcoming election is how frequently the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin especially, are referencing Reagan, as if he were some sort of political savior. Palin seems to think that the American people believe that had we all put our trust in Reagan, the country would be soaring…