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never met an obscure costume i didn’t like

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

The always entertaining wordsmith Kiel Phegley recently posted a retrospective look at his Halloween costumes through the years, and it made me wish I had photos on hand of some of my own. I still consider the massive cardboard Pac-Man costume my mother made for me back in Elementary School to be the greatest costume [...]

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updatery: movie madness and car talk

October 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Last week was one of the busiest five-day spans I’ve worked in quite a while, so that’s the best explanation I can muster for the lack of updates lately.
I found myself managing the MTV Movies Blog for about a week straight due to an unexpected convergence of editors taking time off, and ended up getting [...]

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tarantino babies and my t-shirt problem

October 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments

Something about this t-shirt image forces me to pass it along. I wish I could buy it for myself, but Jessica has imposed a ban on any new t-shirts entering the apartment without an equal number of t-shirts exiting the apartment. Apparently, I have a t-shirt addiction.
Sure, I filled an oversized, can’t-take-it-on-a-plane-without-an-extra-charge suitcase with [...]

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moving on up… or is it down? where are we moving again?

September 27th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Updates will be sparse this weekend as Jessica and I move into the new apartment in Astoria, NY. It’s a decent place, and along with having a friend in the next building, I’m discovering a mess of other people I know who live in and around the area, too. Oh, and Christopher Walken was born [...]

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updatery: so how’s the mtv gig going?

September 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Well, I’m three weeks into my new gig as Co-Editor of MTV’s Splash Page, so it’s well past time for a post about how things are going. The need for such a post has become overwhelmingly apparent due to the number of messages I’m receiving each day asking how things are going — which is [...]

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