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Office Toys from Perpetual Kid to Get You Through the Day
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2009 Was Ass-tastic!
The year is almost over and it wouldn’t be proper to let 2009 slip away without identifying some of the most hideous trends, mishaps and biggest disappointments, this year had to offer.
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Palinode’s Top Everything of 2009
Let’s face it: I’m old. I’m grumpy and easily distracted. I don’t like new things, and pop culture is relentless in its stream of new things. Stupid pop culture. But even among the river of pop trash like the Speidi monster or Flo Rida (really? Flo Rida? Hell, why don’t I launch a music career as Ne Braska? Or Rho Disland? Or Ma Ine?), there was some stuff that I loved. Here it is.
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On Tom Hanks Considered as a Viral Media Infection Propagating Across a Plane of Critical Renown, or You’ve Got Hanks
The New York Film Critics have announced their picks for the best in this year’s sinny-mah. Films like The Hurt Locker and A-list actors George Clooney and Meryl Streep are some of 2009’s big winners. Tom Hanks won nothing. But what if he won everything?
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Filed Under: George Clooney, Movies Tagged With: awards, Best of 2009, Christoph Waltz, George Clooney, Inglourious Basterds, Meryl Streep, Mo'Nique, Movies, new york film critics, precious, The Hurt Locker, tom hanks, up in the air
Sugarpants’ Top Ten Something Something We Loved You In 2009
I purposely haven't read any of my cohort's 2009 List Posts because I'll only be influenced by their awesomeness and not be original. I'm easily coerced by their mental prowess and they ALL KNOW IT. Here at MamaPop, there's one magical thing that wouldn't be worth writing here if we didn't have it: