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Top 10 Albums of 2021: 3 Deaths, 2 Weddings, and a Pandemic, the Music That Got Me Through 2021

Posted on December 18, 2021December 19, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Yea it’s a Top 10 Albums of 2021 List! No it’s not 10 albums long (it’s 9)! Yes it also contains blurbs on 3 honorable

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Why Every Straight Man Should Dress in Drag At Least Once In Their Life

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

On Halloween, 2018, I dressed as my then-girlfriend (now-wife) and she dressed as me. The results were, as expected, hilarious. First of all, she looks

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How The Death of My Brother Made Planning My Island Wedding During a Pandemic Even Harder

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Often in life, you don’t realize what you’ve been through until you’ve been through it.  Okay, that sounds dumb. But follow me. A car spins

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What The Strongest Conceits in Movie History Taught Me About My Love of Making Lists

Posted on June 15, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

And Why Horror Has So Many Sub-Genres Colin Farrell is a publicist cheating on his wife: just an all-around gross sentence and also the opening

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Top 11 Performances in Batman Movies

Posted on June 1, 2021June 9, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

With the trailers for Matt Reeves’The Batman (2022) getting re-mixed and re-edited we thought we’d take a moment to look back at the canon of

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Sex and the City vs The Devil Wears Prada: A Tale of Two Soundtracks

Posted on May 18, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

One City, Two Soundtracks, Two Very Different Results As a white guy who legally became an adult in the 2000s – but whose emotional readiness

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The Albums That Defined Genres, and The Artists Who Abandoned Them

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Colin bought a record player. A South East Minneapolis hipster with a career in the creative arts, no children and the disposable income to prove

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The Surprising Working Class Consciousness of Dumb & Dumber

Posted on April 26, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

In the opening scene of 1994’s Dumb & Dumber a limo driver pretends to be an in-demand lecturer in the rarefied air of medical academia,

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Grief in The Time of Coronavirus

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

What Movies Taught Me About Grief and What Grief Taught Me About Life Bruce Springsteen tells us to meet him “in the land of hopes

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It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Snowtown, and Muck-Duck: How Groupthink Is Portrayed in Pop Culture

Posted on April 5, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Dee and Dennis are, to quote a problematic R&B superstar, trapped in a closet. “We’ve got to get out of here Dennis, we need a

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