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Corey

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Reading, movies, Minnesota Rollergirls, poker, pub trivia, blackjack

Music:

R.E.M., Dar Williams, Dead Can Dance, Electric Six, Neil Finn, The Hold Steady, Louis Prima, Billy Bragg, Ted Hawkins, The Darkness, The Jam, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Zoot Sims, XTC, They Might Be Giants

Movies:

Sin City, True Romance, Fargo, LOTR, Topsy Turvy, Hands on a Hard Body, Trekkies, Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space, Star Trek: First Contact, Dr. Strangelove, One Two Three, The Hunt for Red October, Amadeus, The Big Lebowski, Being There, The Royal Tenenbaums

Television:

Wonder Showzen, The West Wing, South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Robot Chicken, The Sopranos, Real Time with Bill Maher, Venture Brothers

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, The Tipping Point, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, The Corrections, Kingdom Come, In Cold Blood, Assassination Vacation, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, What's the Matter with Kansas?, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Rusty Brown

Heroes:

Paul Wellstone, Buck O'Neil

My Blog

Big Swede meets Big Lebowski

Via Jon Busey-Hunt at Hatesexy, MyHeritage has a nifty tool that scans your face and matches you up with your celebrity doppelgängers. I'm honored by the Big Swede/Big Lebowski comparison, althou...
Posted by Corey on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:36:00 PST

Paris Hilton hits plateau in previously sky-rocketing non-career

http://blogs.citypages.com/canderson/2006/07/paris_hilton_hi .asp
Posted by Corey on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:28:00 PST

Wake up to Johnny Depp swimming in your bowl

Thanks to DisneyCorp, Mr. Scissorhands, Mr. Wonka, Mr. Wood, Mr. Hipper Than Hollywood, Johnny Depp is now, most likely, the sexiest face in your local cereal aisle. Captain Crunch meet Captain Sparro...
Posted by Corey on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:05:00 PST

St. Paul City Council removes the word "Saint" from city name to avoid offending non-Christians

American Idle
Posted by Corey on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:57:00 PST

Straight outta Phoenix

Just got back from Phoenix. A couple days of sun and lots of familial commitments. My girlfriend's mom and my mom finally met - we've only been together for 10 years - no biggie. Deb was nervous, but ...
Posted by Corey on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:26:00 PST

Standing on the street corner, leaning against the lamp post

Got the scoop from Web Director Karl - my blog, American Idle, received over 104,000 page views in January '06! Mostly thanks to that iconic image that will span generations, Kickback Mountain (buy yo...
Posted by Corey on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:52:00 PST

Stinky butts and pussy funk

Mike Mosedale interviewed four Twin Cities limo drivers and got some pretty good stories. You got swingers, pukers, drug dealers, hot lez action, messin' with crackers. It's awesome and it's right her...
Posted by Corey on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:39:00 PST

In the NYT yo!

Kickback Mountain was in the NY Times Arts section yesterday with some other Brokeback Mountain poster parodies. No link or credit. Ugh. Glad I didn't make that deal with the devil about getting into ...
Posted by Corey on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:15:00 PST

Added new/old pics

Added some new/old pictures, from my Richard Harris/Peter O'Toole period. What some people called "adventure," I called "Tuesday afternoon." In honesty, that was more because of a learning disability ...
Posted by Corey on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:31:00 PST

Joyce Hyser is almost 50

I just learned today that the chick from the 80s movie "Just One of the Guys" is almost 50 years old now. That's just wrong. I would totally buy a four-second director's cut version of that movie.
Posted by Corey on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:02:00 PST