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The General And The Hockey Puck

This post: Is about comedy Is mostly about Don Rickles, who is alive Is partially about Buster Keaton, who is not alive Is tangentially about artistic sacrifice and revenge Is slightly speculative and probably pretentious as all get out Has a footnote about Vietnam How did Buster Keaton feel? I ask this question because earlier [...]

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Bored And Old

In “Eating the Dinosaur,” Chuck Klosterman writes that the world’s cultural memory is expanding. For evidence, he points out that in Back To The Future, Marty from 1985 calls Johnny B. Goode an oldie before playing it for a bunch of 1955 teenagers. Johnny B. Goode came out in 1958, 27 years before Back To [...]

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