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Podcasts

As Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was being released in July 2007, I decided to find out about this thing called a podcast. I had heard there was something called Mugglecast and went off to itunes to figure it out. I downloaded my first Mugglecast 4/21/07 and caught the mugglecasters giving their initial reactions […]

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Once Upon a Time

ABC’s Once Upon a Time has been a fun fantasy this season’s Sunday nights. It’s based on a premise that fairy tales are real but because of a curse, fairy tale characters have been banished to the real life town of Storybrooke. It first interested me because Jennifer Morrison from House and Gennifer Goodwin from

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Donovan Hohn

After reading Moby duck, I can see how Donovan Hohn been enthralled by and obsessed over the 28,000 bath toys lost at sea. I too became not so much enchanted with the route that the toys might have taken, but by the lengths and measures by which Hohn took to find them. Hohn spoke at

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Live on the Glee Set

I got to watch work done for the filming of Glee. Daughter is in a theater class whose teacher went to school with this Glee episode’s director, Eric Stoltz and executive producer, Dante Di Loreto. So it’s really who you know that gets you all the fun things. This was a theater field trip for

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Rear Window

I stumbled upon “Rear Window” over the weekend. I was stunned all over again by the masterful production. I was 19 the first time I saw this movie. I had a boyfriend who was seriously into Hitchcock. There was a special release of the original reel and he swooned over it. He detailed all these

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