I am an avid fire watcher, poet and comedian. Also critic, lowly benefit MC, and soap user.

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Goldfish Crackers

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actor Don Knotts

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never to kick homeless people

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to be the first fireman cowboy astronaut

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kicking a homeless person

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helps me vomit less

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Sonny Bono

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Burger King

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listening to Sonny Bono at Burger King and not vomiting

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Carnival of light

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Whip It (2009)

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The phrase "the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore" may not get most cineastes excited, especially as the Oscar prestige season looms, but it shouldn't alarm or offend them either. Barrymore presents a surprisingly solid 80's style formula film that's cute enough to overshadow its ultimate predictability. Protagonist Ellen Page (JUNO), awkward instead of snarky, pines for a life away from the beauty pageants her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) constantly drags her to and her go nowhere job working as a waitress at Bodeen's Oink Joint.The answer to her angst is in Austin, Texas: a roller derby t...

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