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REVIEW: Sexless Geek Isn’t as Heroic, Romantic as Scott Pilgrim Thinks

Everyone has the right to love the relics of his or her childhood: PacMan as opposed to Grand Theft Auto, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles over Dora the Explorer, New Kids on the Block trumping Taylor Swift. But nostalgia can be as cloying as it is comforting, and there comes a time when that wardrobe of ringer T’s emblazoned with cartoon characters ought to be left behind. Especially if you’re a grown-up guy and you have any interest in, you know, actually sleeping with a girl.

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REVIEW: Sexless Geek Isn’t as Heroic, Romantic as Scott Pilgrim Thinks

Introducing Warehouse 13’s Relic Roundup: H.G. Wells, Bad Guy?

I know why you watch Warehouse 13. It’s not for the Mulder and Scully-like partnership between Pete and Myka, or for Claudia’s sharp glibness or for the generous doses of steampunk. It’s all about the relics — the apologetically cheesy, ultra-satisfying history tweaks that make SyFy’s sophomore drama the best thing the network has spawned since last year’s post- Battlestar Galactica rebranding. And, yeah, of course a little steampunk flavoring never hurt anyone. And so, delightfully cheesy artifacts fresh in mind, behold Movieline’s compendium of those relics from last night’s season-two premiere Time Will Tell, ranked by covetability.

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Introducing Warehouse 13’s Relic Roundup: H.G. Wells, Bad Guy?

Newspapers Revamp Print Editions for Nearly Nonexistent Readership

Big changes are afoot at The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and other relics of the bygone print media era in their aggressive effort to retain the handful of actual newspaper readers they still may have. This is one of those moments when the Onion … (continued) Related Entries May 31, 2010 What’s Not to Like About Civil Rights? May 31, 2010 Memorial Day and Our Discontents

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Newspapers Revamp Print Editions for Nearly Nonexistent Readership