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The Wholly Unsatisfying Ending to How I Met Your Mother

799px-How_I_Met_Your_Mother_cast_(cropped)Confession: I was one of the brave souls (suckers?) who watched How I Met Your Mother nearly all the way through its 9 season run. Admittedly, there were times during the near train-wreck Season 8 and again during the Season 9’s longest-wedding-weekend-ever storyline that I sincerely considered cutting bait.

Yet, like a committed partner in a yo-yo relationship, I stayed right through Monday’s much-beloved/much-hated finale, and have spent the last day-and-a-half trying to figure out what I actually think about the way Craig Thomas and Carter Bays ultimately decided to end the series.

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Is a Duggar Girl About to Be Released into the Wild?

If you’ve watched 19 Kids and Counting over the past several years, you’ve probably noticed there are several daughters that are in the midst of the fundamentalist marrying years. Some are even getting a bit on the old side, frankly. I hear rumors that Jana is 24 and she’s going to have to concentrate hard on breeding to get a mere 12 children. She’ll never catch up to her mom’s 19 children. The daughters are busy raising the younger children so mom and dad can go on speaking tours around the country so they’re plenty busy, but what about the girls’ uteruses (uteri?) Continue reading

Game: Short and Not Too Sweet Movie/TV Descriptions

Let’s Play a Game

One of the things that I loved about the Sunday paper was the compilation of TV listings for the coming week, printed in a handy booklet that would live in the TV room. The best part was reading the incredibly brief synopsis of the movies. These condensed reviews were often unintentionally funny. Thankfully there were copy editors that fearlessly chopped down those synopsis until they fit into the daily grid. I salute you. Continue reading

Ten Things You Should Know About House of Cards

house_of_cardsFriday, February 14 will be a momentous day across these United States. No, not because of Valentine’s Day. No, anybody can get chocolates or jewelry from Kay or Jared on any other day of the week, but a new season of the American version of “House of Cards”?

That is worthy of special note.

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