Dressed to Kill

A sexually frustrated housewife attempts to seduce her therapist. After he turns her down, she picks up a guy at an art galley. Unfortunately, she soon finds out that he has a serious case of VD. She doesn't have a lot of time to fret over it though, as she gets hacked to death with a straight razor in the elevator of the guy's apartment building. So then it's up to her son and a prostitute who witnessed the murder to find the killer. I guess there's a lot of people out there who hated this movie when it first came out, calling it overly violent and misogynistic. Nowadays, a lot of people would probably hate this movie because of its less than PC handling of sexuality and gender dynamics. Personally, I'm not one to let dated attitudes stand in the way of a good murder mystery.   

Rating: 71%

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Coming Of Age"

Wesley takes the Starfleet Academy entrance exam which includes a test where they trick students into believing they're living out their worst fears. No wonder they have therapists on board every starship!

RATING: 56%

Shameless Self Promotion

Writing a post on one blog and putting a link to it on another blog is pathetic, and I don't know why anyone would ever do it. But let's say Thomas Benton wrote an article about how people shouldn't go to humanities graduate school, and you wanted to write a response to it, that wouldn't be so bad, would it?

RATING: Gotothepnakoticmanuscriptsandfindout%

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The Olympics

When I say the "Olympics" I'm actually referring to the "Summer Olympics", and that's because it's the original Olympics, buddy. People just felt bad for those people who live in the yonder reaches of the Earth and decided that they have egos too, so they created ridiculous things like skiing and um, curling. Yay! Well, I'll be honest and admit I've come to love hockey, but that's not enough to redeem that abomination of an event they call the "Winter Olympics". It's not like the IOC really cares where those are held. Either way it's a fun time where I get addicted to watching sports for 2 weeks and cheer on my country. Plus, I get really emotional during this time period, which is either normal or some kind of repressed childhood desire for athletic competition I'm not dealing with.

RATING: 90% (if summer only) 73% (if including winter)

Clowns

Keeping in line with dishing our phobias onto R3 instead of our therapists, I thought I'd review one of the most terrifying "things" in the world. Clowns. Do you remember that clown dream sequence on "Pee Wee's Big Adventure"? Even if I momentarily remove myself of my fear I don't see how they're even slightly amusing. I'm pretty sure my fear of clowns stems from an overexposure to them as a child by my mother. Aren't parents great? We get to blame everything we're afraid of in our lives on them. This is why I don't want kids. I can't be responsible for that.

RATING: 4%