Day One: The Impossible Truth Behind Snake Plissken’s Eye Patch. »

It was an entire week ago – that’s just short of “forever” in blog-years – that my ever-lovin’ pal Piper at Lazy Eye Theatre meme’d me up but good with the following assignment:

Explain to the world The Impossible Truth Behind Snake Plissken’s Eye-Patch. Could be a one word sentence or could be a seven page [...]

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Make Burbanked’s birthday wish come true, Day Three: buy me a celebrity keepsake! »

Movie celebrities have always been the stuff of public fascination, dating far, far back into Tinseltown’s turbulent history in the near-constant scandals, divorces and sexual peccadillos that have run the gamut from harmless to deviant.
But these days we’re living in a celebrity culture in which all of the taboos are gone. There is no mystery [...]

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Make Burbanked’s birthday wish come true, Day Two: remake me a movie! »

From Star Trek to Get Smart; from The Day the Earth Stood Still to Friday the 13th; from planned remakes of everything from The Karate Kid to Arthur to Romancing the Stone to A Nightmare on Elm Street, this past year has seen the completion or the launching of movie remakes at previously unimagined levels. [...]

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Make Burbanked’s birthday wish come true, Day One: regift me an Oscar! »

So here I am celebrating Burbanked’s third birthday and it occurs to me that my chances of getting an actual present for this occasion are mighty slim. Seriously, no one I know truly celebrates blog-birthdays outside of their own sites and each time I bring it up with friends and family I just get a [...]

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I’ve been tagged by The 12 Movies Meme. »

Leave it to my blog-pal Piper to roust me out of the too-much-working, non-blogging malaise I’ve been experiencing lately by tagging me with one of his ever-loving movie memes. What a rascal!
In Lazy Eye Theatre’s 12 Movies Meme, Piper challenges me and a handful of others to program two weeks’ worth of movies if we [...]

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Bravo, Lazy Eye Theatre. Bravissimo. »

Oh, but by the testosterone-soaked macho posturing of Bruce Willis, Piper at Lazy Eye Theatre has crafted something damn near perfect today in his My Dinner With Blank Meme. In a post that veers wildly from sublime to horrifying to vulgar to ecstatic and finally winds up right in the heart of Crazy And Violent [...]

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Eight things you’ve been dying to know about me. »

My blogging amigo Piper over at the wondrous Lazy Eye Theatre has officially tagged me with the 8 Things Meme in which I am compelled to reveal an octuplet of interesting and/or revealing things about myself because I know how much you care about me.
But of course, first we need to review the rules:

I have [...]

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