Category: Dan
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[Name Of Boy On Blog] hates movie, can’t tell you which one
One of the best movie reviews I’ve ever read was Lisa Schwarzbaum’s Entertainment Weekly review of Chocolat, the twee little nominated-for-Best-Picture-by-accident nightmare of a film you only woke up during when your friend nudged you in the ribs four hours into it and loudly whispered, “See, I TOLD you Johnny Depp was in this.” EW…
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day has “fun stuff” tattooed on his forehead
Then has angry, public, tabloid breakup with Fun Stuff, hastily has tattoo changed to read “Wino Forever.” I’m using that joke in every available context today, for some reason. You’ll never get me, Pamie. I’ve got the patent on Fun Stuff this time. ps. Fun Stuff!
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dan realizes he writes when he’s tired sometimes, but that’s the job, yo
My new Bachelor recap was posted minutes before this email hit my inbox: Last year the articles here were entertaining, however whoever is writing them this year makes absolute no sense…. Because I’m just as much a proud fan of a catty flame war as the next guest blogger, I responded in kind. The person…
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dan thinks it’s time for #2 in a continuing series
Seventy weeks ago, one of the last times I posted on Da Blog, I promised that there would be a “next” in a self-serving series of cut songs from the musical you might have heard me mention. From the sixty-hour, Roots-length, Ken-Burns-sponsored duration of Monica‘s earlier versions to the leaner, meaner version we have today,…
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dan cleanses his palate
Ew! Ew ew ew ew ew. I once knew a boy whose hatred of Boufant Ben was so strong and pointed that even a photograph of him in a magazine would send the boy into a mad rage, causing him to slam his closed fist down on the photo repeatedly and scream “aaaaah!” Because if…
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Dan tells a story, adds a song cue. And a song.
Tell a story? With pleasure, Pamela. With self-celebrating pleasure. As some of you may be aware as a result of the shamelessly self-whoring amount of linking that goes on around da blog, I am one of three collaborators of a musical. This musical has been in development for some time now, and, in its earliest…
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dan spends some time on the Pacific Rim
The last three movies I’ve seen, just by coincidence, have all taken place in Japan. This is, by strides, the best of them.
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dan’s friends get mad when he doesn’t tell them
Sigh: here. After I got snagged last time trying to live a life of quiet, obscure dignity by not telling anyone I was going to be on TV, VH1 saw fit to air this thing no fewer than fourteen times in its first twenty-four hours. But don’t let me find out that you wasted your…