http://www.shinygun.com/blog news and opinion from the folks behind shinygun Copyright 2005 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=132 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=132#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2005 02:27:49 +0000 news words love & mating shinygun alerts http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=132 Our brutal heroine's adventures continue today in the magazine. As usual, things for Liza are... in flux: It occurs to me, largely because my mother had written it in a letter to me the previous week, that I have a tendency to undermine myself with fantastic projections of my dream life. ... http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=132 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=131 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=131#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:33:01 +0000 news words love & mating shinygun alerts http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=131 New fiction from Trish Elms, today in the magazine: Thea loved the way he added an extra syllable to the word cold when he sang; the way he closed his eyes, tilting his head slightly to the left when he got to the chorus, and the way his rough, warm hands ... http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=131 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=130 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=130#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:03:08 +0000 news television words http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=130 What with the 100th episode and the Lorelai telling Emily "We're done" and all, Gilmore Girls is all over the tv and arts pages this week -- including my writeup for PopMatters -- but the Onion interview with ASP is most interesting, especially since she seemed to be in a ... http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=130 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=129 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=129#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:25:38 +0000 news love & mating film http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=129 We can look for Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale in theaters this fall. Goldwyn Films and Sony's Screen Gems acquired rights to the film, which had its world premiere last month at Sundance and earned Baumbach directing and screenwriting honors there. The film revolves around two brothers growing ... http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=129 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=128 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=128#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:20:35 +0000 news television chicago http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=128 The more I look at the major network TV landscape, with its island voodoo, uneven suburban tales and murder and medicine mysteries of the week, the more I can't imagine that 1/4life -- or 1/4 Life -- will last long on ABC (assuming it makes the schedule): As with all Zwick-Herskovitz ... http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=128 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=127 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=127#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:31:02 +0000 news words shinygun alerts http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=127 Today in the magazine, Siri Steiner considers her old self -- that ugly kid singing James Taylor on the videotape -- and her current one, but can't quite make them join. Still, she finds some perks in ugliness. http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=127 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=126 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=126#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:39:09 +0000 news television film http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=126 The Simon turns its new feature, Why Are They Famous?, on Topher Grace this week, and Trevor Thompson gets off track -- in a very good way -- when a chance sighting of Grace on the Metro North New Haven Line sends him reeling. It's easy not to hate huge ... http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=126 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=123 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=123#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:19:39 +0000 news television words http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=123 File under self-promotion: I reviewed life as we know it, the new ABC drama you haven't been hearing about for months, for PopMatters. As for those other shows, Lost got more tawdry and DH got more tasteless (or maybe Susan can tell us what Mrs. Huber's ashes taste like?) last ... http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=123 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=125 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=125#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:09:58 +0000 news words love & mating shinygun alerts http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=125 New in the magazine, Minter Krotzer recounts three personal milestones of girlhood: first period, first bra, first trip to the ob/gyn. http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=125 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=121 http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=121#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:48:22 +0000 news words film quirks shinygun alerts http://www.shinygun.com/blog/index.php?p=121 While the world talks Oscar in February, ShinyGun will be looking at the films that really hit close to home -- those goofy comedies that ran incessantly on cable during childhood, that secret stash of dirty movies that taught you -- or confused you as to -- what was what, ... http://www.shinygun.com/blog/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=121