Anything Else?

by G. Sax

I never meant for this to become a movie review site, so all the movie reviews are, alas, gone. What shall remain will be the “Best of” and “Worst of” collections from movie reviewer, James Evans.

Where did all the other writers go? E. is now in Florida and is co-owner of some horses. Tip produces content at his own personal blog. John Schmall lives in Texas with his wife. Avram lives in San Francisco, and I may help him produce a book one day. Boo works and drinks in Saint Paul. Sometimes he drinks with me.

I still write everyday, but much of it has been work-related. I wrote a lot for the Saint Paul Real Estate Blog over the last couple of years. I’ll grab at some of that content and bring it on over here in the coming weeks and months. I also have a bunch of content dating back to when I first started this blog pre-2000. I’ll be repurposing some of those oldies for depth and personal defamation.

I’m also easy to find on Facebook and Twitter.

I hope that James considers building his own website of movie reviews one day. He has literally 1,000 of them!

Crystal Cody

by G. Sax

Diablo Cody is a good story for Minnesotans. Although I don’t really get my town’s infatuation with the local angle. Yeah, yeah, she wrote Juno at a Target store café in Crystal. She wrote for City Pages (a decent enough blog called “Pussy Ranch”), yay. But she’s from Chicago. She lives Out West. She’s about as Minnesotan at this point as the Coen Brothers or Bob Dylan. And yet the local newsrag went all apeshit on the post-Oscar cover about how Minnesota WAS Oscar.

Whatever works, I suppose. Ya gotta sell papers. And Cody and the Coens have been nice enough to Minnesota. You’ve probably heard that Cody is also a former exotic dancer. Which is cool, because naked is a good story for Minnesotans, too. We can all stand to loosen up. Including me, I suppose. I’m probably just jealous.