Arts & Entertainment

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NEWS 6/11/09 9:51pm

Um, Thanks, Hollywood...?

By The Pendulum

It's not too often that an opinions section will have an editorial or contributor that writes only to commend something--I'm pretty sure Morgan has made that point before--but I think that it is well deserved in this case. In my blog entry about the Where the Wild Things Are movie, I totally failed to mention, or focus on if I did mention it, the fact that Dave Eggers wrote it.

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NEWS 6/10/09 3:03pm

I swear I have not had any relations with motor vehicles

By pendulumopinions

America's a wonderful place, isn't it? It's the sort of wonderland where everyone can have opportunities, where paupers can become industrious princes at the tip of their soot-ridden caps.

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NEWS 6/6/09 5:38pm

No thought required

By pendulumopinions

The information age is over. If you'd like to attend the wake, please wear black and be courteous to the grieving windows, they've been through a lot.

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NEWS 6/5/09 2:42am

If at first you don't want to read...

By pendulumopinions

No, the title doesn't pertain to this blog. I mean, who wouldn't want to read this blog, in all of it pre-templated glory, upon the first look?

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NEWS 6/2/09 11:20pm

Profit off the Rye

By pendulumopinions

Characters that resonate with audiences take on a multitude of identities, each unique to the particular cultural consumer.

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NEWS 5/30/09 3:37pm

For a journey built upon a balloon-carried house, "Up" takes few risks

By pendulumopinions

The problem with success is that it builds upon itself like sentient Lego bricks, continuing skyward until eventually, one pillar looks a bit ugly, or a awkward arrangement of pieces is necessary to continue.

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NEWS 5/28/09 5:21pm

We promise, this time, that your kids are actually in danger

By pendulumopinions

Look at this girl. She seems perfectly happy and content, what with her working phone, face free of terribly unsightly pores and braces, and if the New York Times' caption is to be believed, she's an honors student as well.

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NEWS 5/21/09 8:41pm

So long, lazy brick road

By pendulumopinions

I'll give myself, and the blog, a nice warm welcome back from the busily distracted realm of finals and travels back home (as much as one can consider New Jersey to be a home...) I can't say that I've been overly compelled during this hiatus to put anything online, mainly because the main events that have been swirling around the news sphere have been largely inconsiquential "he said, she said" moments. Did Rep.

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NEWS 5/13/09 8:37pm

Wilco, the band, present Wilco (The Album)!

By pendulumopinions

Wilco has put their new album up on their site for the world to listen and I, for one, am listening.

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NEWS 5/12/09 1:09am

You woeful idiots, join me!

By The Pendulum

Dr. Carlo Strenger is a pretty darn smart guy. A professor at the psychology department of Tel Aviv University, he frequently contributes to The Guardian (a paper that, if you have not noticed, I worship), mostly on the topic of religion and how it pertains to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

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NEWS 5/10/09 3:31am

Settling for popcorn

By pendulumopinions

Typically, I'm the sort of cultural consumer who runs at everything skeptically, is rarely very pleased and finds it almost sinful to consider compromising the complexity of a lengthy, brilliant source material for the sake of introducing it to a wider audience.

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NEWS 5/6/09 3:47pm

Why get for free what you can pay for?

By pendulumopinions

UPDATE Not long after the post below came along, Amazon just announced a new model of the Kindle which will directly take aim at newspapers with a bigger, more cumbersome design.

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NEWS 5/6/09 3:23pm

Step 1 in being a successful politician

By The Pendulum

Never allow yourself to be even remotely close to a swastika, even if it's made by children and looks to be incorporated in a backwards Chinese flag.

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NEWS 5/5/09 10:09pm

Christmas is coming around the regular time this year!

By pendulumopinions

According to Ben Bernanke, the king of all things monetary (at least until his term is up, which doesn't make him that much of a king,) the economy should be ready and raring to go come the end of the year! Of course, unemployment will still be low, it'll take a long time for us to step back to where we were and the progress will be dependent on the success of the bailout and stimulus packages.

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NEWS 5/1/09 6:33pm

Souter is retiring! Stop the presses, start the wanton speculation!

By pendulumopinions

Supreme Court Justice David Souter is leaving his position at the end of his current term, leaving President Obama with that always-difficult decision of nominating a succesor.

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NEWS 5/1/09 3:58am

Insert bachelor pun here

By pendulumopinions

Yes, I'm sorry, I got my hands on an album early though less-than golden means. I know music typically isn't the domain of this blog, in fact, I'm pretty positive that there hasn't been a single album review posted at all, unless someone slipped one in after catching wind of my password. The album in question?

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NEWS 4/29/09 9:42pm

Photo-oops...

By pendulumopinions

Let's examine publicity for just a moment. The dictionary describes it as, "extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication." Good publicity, therefore, is essentially people being cognizant and chattering about something for all of the right reasons.

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NEWS 4/26/09 9:02pm

One flu over the cuckoo's nest

By The Pendulum

For years the media has gone from one health scare to another, with each summer bringing with it a new viral terror that will result in a pandemic.

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NEWS 4/23/09 4:57pm

Applying King Solomon's wisdom to taxation

By The Pendulum

If a contingent of Americans reacted to President Obama's tax plans with tea parties and protests, will the recently announced, significantly more draconian tax measures proposed by Alistair Darling, Britain''s Chancellor of the Exchequer (aka "Head economic honcho") result in a English alternative, perhaps sailing over to the New World and trying to tax our paper products?

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NEWS 4/22/09 3:02am

Somalia caught in the riptide

By The Pendulum

Columnist Neel Arora put together a piece this week about the ongoing glut of piracy off of the coast of Somalia, and argued that the pirates are brutal criminals free of honor, who must be dealt with quickly using coordinated military measures.

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