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Highlights from Amy Poehler’s “Yes Please”

November 4, 2014 by Meryl Williams Leave a Comment
Cover of "Yes Please"

Yes Please came out October 28. (image via)

I bought this book on Audible on Friday afternoon and finished it Monday night, savoring the last hour at home while cleaning before sitting down to write this review. Listening to Amy Poehler talk about her life, her career, her family and her friends was soothing and inspiring at the same time. She made me want to write but also call my aunt to catch up. (I still owe you a call, Aunt Cary.)

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Posted in: Books and Literature Tagged: Amy Poehler, Kathleen Turner, Patrick Stewart, Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Yes Please

Our Month in Popular Culture: November 2014

November 3, 2014 by Travis J. Cook Leave a Comment

We here at The Addison Recorder read stuff. We also watch stuff. And play stuff, even. Sometimes, that stuff is interesting. Sometimes we just need to talk about whatever pop culture ephemera occupies our time. Which brings us to this column. Moonwalk on.

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Posted in: Round-Ups Tagged: Agents of SHIELD, Amy Poehler, Bad Feminist, bears, Delta Green, FIFA 13, Gilmore Girls, H.P. Lovecraft, Horse Feathers, John Oliver, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Roxane Gay, RPGs, Television, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Twitter, video games

Best TV of 2011-12: 80% of the Top Ten

July 10, 2012 by Alex Bean 2 Comments

Picking up where we left off last week, I am continuing my run through the best that TV had to offer this past year. This week I am listing off spots ten through three from my top ten list. I tried to write out what made each of these shows special and worthwhile, though none of them got the space for consideration and praise that they truly deserve. That being said, I realized before I even wrote this that the two shows that top my list will need a ton of space just to get all my thoughts about them into coherent order. So they will get their own posts in a few days. Until then, enjoy this section and take a guess as to what my top two are.

Oh, and if you haven’t yet, check out my Honorable Mentions and Individual Citations list first. Enjoy!

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Posted in: Lists, Television Tagged: Adam Reed, Amber Nash, Amy Poehler, Archer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Community, David Milch, Dustin Hoffman, Eliza Coupe, Game of Thrones, Happy Endings, Jack Gleeson, Joel McHale, Justified, Lena Headey, Luck, Margo Martindale, Martin Freeman, Michael Mann, Neal McDonough, Parks & Recreation, Peter Dinklage, Sherlock, Steven Moffat, Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins

Best TV of 2011-12: Honorable Mentions and Individual Citations

July 3, 2012 by Alex Bean Leave a Comment

TV cannot be more charming

I watched more great TV in the past season than I can ever remember doing before. This is a big, bold statement, essentially saying that the best of TV in the past 12 months stands up to the best of any other such period, ever. But, hey, I lead with it, so I stand by it. If you want to be on the bleeding edge of what is current, great, and vital to American popular culture right now, turn on your TV (or download lots of videos off the Internet, as I too often did).

So, without much ado I want to get on to the listing and such. There will be two distinct parts to this article: first, the list of my picks for the top ten programs that aired from June 2011 to June 2012. Each show will get a brief write-up arguing my case for it, and the top two will get another, longer article devoted to them soon. I will also call out what programs deserve an honorable mention, and those that I missed and should not have — you can all take me to task for that. After that I will go through and list of some of the individuals or specific episodes that deserve a special mention outside of the list. Enjoy!

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Posted in: Lists, Television Tagged: Amy Poehler, Archer, Children's Hospital, Christina Hendricks, Community, Craig Ferguson, Downton Abbey, Girls, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jim Rash, Jon Stewart, Justified, Louie, Louie C.K., Luck, Mad Men, Parks & Recreation, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Late Late Show, Timothy Olyphant, Veep

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