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Television Collision: Royal Pains Is No Royal PleasureAs the second season of Royal Pains is now two weeks old, I have decided to re-post my original assessment of this show (written in July 2009), becau... Read more |
Television Collision: Was There Enough Awesome in Season Two of Game of Thrones?SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ if you haven’t seen the Season 2 finale of Game of Thrones! Let’s not even pretend that I have to justify why I am writing... Read more |
Television Collision: Did The Voice Find Its Voice?It’s been almost a week since the finale of The Voice aired and Javier Colon was crowned the winner, so I assume the dust has settled and now we can t... Read more |
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Big Apple Comic-Con'11 Spring Edition PreviewWizard's Big Apple Comic Con (spring)'11 is here and CC2K will be there. Kaare Andrews will be there and Marvel's new Ultimate Comics will be discusse... Read more |
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Rachel Brooke :: Late Night LoverI reviewed Rachel Brooke's last album here at CC2K and gushed quite a bit about it. If you didn't like my gushing, I apologize. Also, you ... Read more |
Advance Review: A Place to Bury Strangers by Exploding HeadA predictable, disappointing effort. If there is a malaise within the ‘shoegaze’ sub-genre, it is that its commitment to the frustration... Read more |
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