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Monthly Archives: December 2007

The Sparrow

20-Dec-07

It isn’t particularly difficult to find individual reasons why The Sparrow was such a fantastic experience. The play draws liberally from many points of (popular) cultural interest from my childhood and beyond which continue to resonate with me to this day. It is, however, very difficult to articulate why this particularly combination worked. The play [...]

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It’s a Simple Message, and It Comes from the Heart

13-Dec-07

After much consideration, I’ve come to the conclusion that the label ‘favorite’ as applied to one’s tastes in popular culture is most easily defined as that which one spends the most time reading/watching/consuming/etc. It seems reasonable to expect that one spends time in leisure activities largely because one derives enjoyment from them; therefore that upon [...]

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