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All great pranks need a few key factors to achieve legendary status. Ridiculous Nathan Fielder levels of over-planning. Genuinely mystified reactions from your target as to just exactly how you managed to pull it off. And most importantly: getting away […]

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Before I got a real (by which I mean, "more than part time") job...8 years ago, I had worked in the local public library for over a decade. I manned the reference desk, a …

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It's New Year's Eve, and you know what that means. That means that it is the end of the month of December and I am once again scrambling to write a blog post after …

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Painting in Miniature 6: Blood Bowl
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I've talked before about how Games Workshop, despite the name, isn't great at designing "games." For all the work I put into my Warhammer armies, I'm not about to go recommend the actual game to …

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Minor Key Music 87: New Model Army – The Hunt
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Today's song isn't the first song I discovered through a heavy metal cover. However, unlike Gamma Ray's "It's a Sin," Sepultura's version of "The Hunt" was NOT the standout on its album. Sepultura …

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Werner Herzog Describes the Ending of Dirty Harry
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Despite losing a bit of his underground allure over the last decade through a combination of a newly trendy fascination with his accent and working on a goddamn Star Wars tv show, acclaimed German filmmaker …

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The New Wave of Indigenous National Socialist Black Metal
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I've taken a closer look at the various ways the neo-Nazi black metal underground hides in plain sight before. For every band that has the word "aryan" in their name and a swastika in …

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Minor Key Music 86: The Watersons – The Good Old Way
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My Minor Key Monday picks mostly fall into three categories: weird shit I listened to as a kid, music used in movies, and youtube autoplay happy accidents. Today however I had a rare "heard …

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My Favorite Movies 78: Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)
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I’ve never been the biggest Sam Peckinpah fan.  He’s just a little too revisionist, a little too obvious, and a little too over-reliant on slow-motion bloodbaths. While nothing will ever compare to peak pre-revisionist …

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Cinema Scripture School 4: David and Bathsheba (Henry King, 1951)
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Though I have no formal religious education, I have actually learned a fair bit about Christianity over the years, both via apophatic deduction applied to my metal collection, and, through cinema.  In this recurring series, I …

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