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...possible threats on the path towards European world dominance, Campbell tries to capitalize on lingering American hostility towards a continent that vociferously opposed the war in Iraq. It’s ludicrous that an action-comedy would try to proselytize in the first place. It’s downright hilarious given the number of historical errors it contains: Col. Beauregard talks about the “Confederate States” more than a decade before the Confederacy formed. Perhaps no one sees a Zorro movie for a history lesson, but it’s just as unlikely they...
...rest of the acting is downright abominable, with virtually all victims in the house (“7th Heaven”’s Beverley Mitchell by far the worst) providing shallow and unrealistic performances that are not even good by horror flick standards...
...muddled and one of the story’s weaknesses, ranging from a collective memory stored in one’s genes to the suggestion that the real narrator might be a teenage Christopher forging his past. The novel runs more smoothly when the bizarre, the supernatural, and the downright impossible are delivered deadpan and unexplained. In this mode we meet a kaleidoscopic whirl of characters: scientist grandparents who invent an Inconsumable Taco to end Mexican hunger, man-eating apocalyptic coyotes, and Machiavellian politicians who hide microchips in sugar to read opponents’ minds over morning coffee. Christopher?...
...Blackalicious is downright tangy. Say it: “Blackalicous.” It’s like “licorice” and “delicious;” it’s something so tasty, so lip-smackingly good that you can’t help wanting a piece. “The Craft,” the Sacramento duo’s third album, somewhat surprisingly released on the self-styled “Indie Punk and Hardcore” label Epitaph’s Anti imprint, has Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel poised...
...aspect of control. Here's another. What Jobs has accepted--the truth that he's willing to face and others cower from--is that new things don't want to be born. Innovation causes problems, and it's much easier simply to avoid it. In fact, it's downright tempting. Other guys may give in to that temptation but not Jobs. He's smart, but more than that, he's willing to be the guy who looks over your shoulder and tells you you're not going to make your dinner reservation tonight because you're going to be here...