During our fourth week of U.S. Navy boot camp, we found ourselves in the service of the mess hall. The navy called it Service Week, and we’d been warned about it for the previous three weeks. Everyone said it would be a sweet little piece of hell made up of the most interminable days imaginable. To […]
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When it comes to television, it might seem dismissive to refer to a series as a “little” show, as if that adjective somehow diminishes its importance or influence, but it can also be a compliment. A little show can be unpretentious, and it can fly under the radar. It can move in slow, deliberate strokes
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Let’s say something bad happens to a guy. Maybe we don’t know if he had it coming. It could be a car accident, a life-altering injury, or a terrible disease. Perhaps he loses everything he owns in a natural disaster, or worse, gets caught with his hands in a metaphorical cookie jar. One day, everything’s fine, the
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If you haven’t yet heard of writer/director/actor Taika Waititi, you probably will soon. He’s best known for slightly off-the-radar films like Eagle vs. Shark and What We Do in the Shadows as well as for working with fellow New Zealander comedians Jemaine Clement and Rhys Darby. His newest release, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, could be
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At its heart, literature is about our lives, and some of the most compelling stories are about how life rarely ever turns out the way we think it will. We can plan, dream, and work, but in the end, things sometimes tend to go the way they will, regardless of our wishes. It’s fitting, then,
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Here’s a cute little story: One day, when I was five years old, I commented to one of my kindergarten peers that playing sports was a good pastime for people who weren’t smart enough to read books or add numbers. In related news, that was also the day I spent around a half-hour trapped in
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