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Entries from Houstonist tagged with 'richardlinklater'

April 17, 2007

Movies Houstonians Love: Richard Linklater presents Some Came Running Best known for his superb recreation of the 70's slacker era in 1993's Dazed and Confused (writer & director), Richard Linklater could quite possibly be responsible for writing some of the most quoted movie lines of all time. Just thinking about it makes us "wanna dance!" In 2006, Richard Linklater“s back-to-back films A Scanner Darkly and Fast Food Nation received enormous critical and popular acclaim.......

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July 9, 2006

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public......

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April 23, 2006

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Taser Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest Bathroom Videos" and PBS trains cams on cows at, uhg, MooTube. Also,......

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