http://thegimleteye.com/?p=813 Observations of a skeptic, with a soft spot. Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://thegimleteye.com/?p=813&cpage=1#comment-88911 Back to the Six-Column Hed « The Gimlet Eye Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:11:47 +0000 http://thegimleteye.com/?p=813#comment-88911 [...] I do agree with their assessment that the Hill Valley Telegraph had an unfortunate habit of writing banner headlines, a font size that should be reserved for war or at least major national events, for such dubious “news” as a local man’s lucky streak at the race track (a tendency of which my local paper is frequently guilty). But my concurrence is tempered by my puzzlement at why, why? someone would go through the trouble of taking numerous newspaper-headline screen shots from B-grade ’80s movies. [...]

]]> http://thegimleteye.com/?p=813&cpage=1#comment-16130 Sibling ribaldry « The Gimlet Eye Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:53:58 +0000 http://thegimleteye.com/?p=813#comment-16130 [...] And by “certain demographic,” clearly they mean me. So, they’ve revisited the most awesome television show about neurotic mini-skirt-wearing blondes. And the movie with stellar use of catchphrases and coloured tights. I have every confidence I soon will be reading an essay on the delightful verbal tics of John Cusack. [...]

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