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September 22, 2013

"The lifestyle that everybody kinda wants": 5 notes on Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring

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September 21, 2013

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September 08, 2013

hiatus links

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August 30, 2013

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August 25, 2013

12 pubs, 12 questions about Edgar Wright's The World's End

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August 24, 2013

The evils of sugar: 5 (no doubt) semi-paranoid notes

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August 18, 2013

La surconsommation

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August 17, 2013

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August 05, 2013

"I love a little macho male bonding": 10 shallow pleasures of 2 Guns

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Shamanistic neon: the Film Doctor's one sentence review of Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives

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