My inner quirk now resides somewhere between Amy Adams and Emily Blunt from Sunshine Cleaning (2009).
After a seven month layoff, I’ve gone back to work. While this means I will no longer have to eat Apple Jacks for supper or wait on Sacramento to shake some loose change out of the sofa for my unemployment [...]

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There was probably no better year to be a kid going to the movies than 1984.
It seems like I might have spent most of the year at two theaters in northwest Houston: the AMC North Oaks 6 and a six screen General Cinemas theater at the gargantuan Willowbrook Mall. Willowbrook featured countless retail stores. Toys [...]

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“What you looking at? You never seen a guy who slept with a fish before?” — Freddie (John Candy) in Splash (1984)
This Distracted Globe will host its first ever carnival — The Class of ’84 Blogathon — on Monday, October 26, 2009. On this date, anyone with a website is invited to post their thoughts [...]

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“Honest work. Let me tell ya somethin’ about ‘honest work’. When somebody says they got ‘honest work’, you know what they got? They got a shit job, that’s what they got.” — Charlie (Mickey Rourke) in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)

This Distracted Globe will host its first ever carnival — The Class of [...]

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