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<title>Blowing Smoke: A movie about poker, cigars, women, and getting screwed</title>
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<modified>2008-07-03T18:51:56Z</modified>
<tagline>This is where Blowing Smoke&apos;s cast and crew talk about all that is related to the experience of making the movie and the technology involved. It is also a conversation with those who enjoyed watching it as much as we did making it. This blog has no non-smoking section.</tagline>
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<title>Christuhfuh is a rat!</title>
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<modified>2008-07-03T18:51:56Z</modified>
<issued>2008-07-03T18:42:55Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3369</id>
<created>2008-07-03T18:42:55Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Life on Mars, the American remake of the kinda-great British cop/sci-fi/just plain weird drama, just got a little less unwatchable....</summary>
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<name>Jim Treacher</name>
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<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
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<![CDATA[<p><em>Life on Mars</em>, the American remake of the kinda-great British cop/sci-fi/just plain weird drama, just got a little less <a href="http://blowingsmokethemovie.com/archives/2008/06/my_5word_review_7.php">unwatchable</a>. First they dumped David E. Kelley, which was a good sign. Then they moved the setting from L.A. to New York, which I guess is good. Now they're adding <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117988415.html?categoryid=14&cs=1">Michael Imperioli</a>, AKA Christopher from <em>The Sopranos</em>:</p>

<blockquote>In the adaptation of the hit BBC series, the former “Sopranos” star will play Det. Ray Carling, a not-so-politically correct tough-guy colleague to Jason O'Mara’s Sam, the cop who finds himself mysteriously sent back in time to the early 1970s to find a serial killer.</blockquote>

<p>There's no way to make O'Mara more interesting, so surrounding him with interesting people might work. Or, in Lenny Clarke's case, louder.</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Bold prediction: The Dark Knight is going to make a lot of money</title>
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<modified>2008-07-02T22:48:03Z</modified>
<issued>2008-07-02T22:41:39Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3368</id>
<created>2008-07-02T22:41:39Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"> Click the scary dead man to watch the first 5 minutes, in better quality than the bootleg that was...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Movies</dc:subject>
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<p>Click the scary dead man to watch the first 5 minutes, in better quality than the bootleg that was going around a few months ago. Ledger's <em>eyes</em>, man... I read some critic saying he deserves an Oscar. Which seems far-fetched for a superhero movie, but then again he's dead and Academy voters respect that.</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>I can wait</title>
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<modified>2008-07-02T16:45:04Z</modified>
<issued>2008-07-02T16:44:19Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3367</id>
<created>2008-07-02T16:44:19Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">&apos;Hancock&apos; will fly to FX in 2010...</summary>
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<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
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<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117988394.html?categoryid=13&cs=1">'Hancock' will fly to FX in 2010</a></p>]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Live and Let Rewrite</title>
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<modified>2008-07-02T15:26:19Z</modified>
<issued>2008-07-02T15:22:47Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3366</id>
<created>2008-07-02T15:22:47Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"> Looks great! I love that this new series is treating Bond as an actual character and not just a...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
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<dc:subject>Movies</dc:subject>
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<p>Looks great! I love that this new series is treating Bond as an actual <em>character</em> and not just a kill/quip/fuck machine, without sacrificing the actual killing and quipping and fucking. But that <em>title</em>...</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Happy Birthday, Debbie Harry!</title>
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<modified>2008-07-01T21:31:37Z</modified>
<issued>2008-07-01T21:30:02Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3365</id>
<created>2008-07-01T21:30:02Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">She&apos;s 63. Holy crap! Thank God for YouTube: These days she&apos;s singing &quot;Hip of Glass.&quot; See, because she&apos;s old....</summary>
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<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
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<![CDATA[<p>She's 63. Holy crap! Thank God for YouTube:</p>

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<p>These days she's singing "Hip of Glass." See, because she's old.</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>A-Rod is putting his bat in Madonna&apos;s dugout?*</title>
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<modified>2008-07-01T16:58:44Z</modified>
<issued>2008-07-01T16:49:52Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3364</id>
<created>2008-07-01T16:49:52Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">That sound you just heard was every sighted heterosexual male in North America shuddering: Us Weekly reports in its new...</summary>
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<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
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<![CDATA[<p>That sound you just heard was every sighted heterosexual male in North America <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/exclusive-ny-yankee-making-late-night-visits-to-madonnas-apartment">shuddering</a>:</p>

<blockquote>Us Weekly reports in its new issue, on newsstands tomorrow, that Madonna's seven-year marriage to Guy Ritchie has stalled out -- and the singer has been hosting late-night visits from New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez at her Central Park West apartment in New York City...

<p>A source tells Us that the $28-million-a-year Rodriguez, 32, has made numerous solo nighttime visits to Madonna, 49, at her spacious home and would sneak out "as late as midnight." Says the source, "All the doormen are talking."</blockquote></p>

<p>Maybe there's an innocent explanation. Maybe she's helping him with strength training:</p>

<center><img alt="madonna.jpg" src="http://blowingsmokethemovie.com/madonna.jpg" width="458" height="550" /></center>

<p>Seriously, when did she start turning into Iggy Pop? </p>

<p><font size="-3">*I'm pretty sure I got the proportions correct there.</font></p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Eddie Murphy finally catches up with the rest of us</title>
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<modified>2008-06-30T20:10:55Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-30T20:10:00Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3363</id>
<created>2008-06-30T20:10:00Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">&quot;I have close to fifty movies and it&apos;s like, why am I in the movies?&quot;...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Movies</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2008/06/eddie_murphy_retiring.php">"I have close to fifty movies and it's like, why am I in the movies?"</a></p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>He couldn&apos;t remember the lyrics because they&apos;re not about how great Jay-Z is</title>
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<modified>2008-06-30T18:18:46Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-30T18:05:09Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3362</id>
<created>2008-06-30T18:05:09Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"> Backstory: He headlined the Glastonbury festival in England, and the head asshole from Oasis didn&apos;t like it: Noel Gallagher...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Music</dc:subject>
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<p>Backstory: He headlined the Glastonbury festival in England, and the head asshole from Oasis <a href="http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2273595,00.html">didn't like it</a>:</p>

<blockquote>Noel Gallagher has declared hip-hop "wrong" for the Glastonbury festival, claiming Jay-Z's headline slot is one of the reasons tickets for this year's event have been slow to sell...

<p>"Sorry, but Jay-Z? Fucking no chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music, do you know what I mean?"</blockquote></p>

<p>So this was Jay-Z's response. I'm all for telling anyone in Oasis -- or anyone in England for that matter -- to shut the fuck up, but the Hova did not exactly make the song his own.</p>

<p>Between this and the <a href="http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=197280_-1__0_~0_-1_6_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=">Kanye/Amy Winehouse</a> thing... Open race war in the music biz?</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Thank you for specifying that it wasn&apos;t the theoretical physicist Britney Spears</title>
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<modified>2008-06-30T17:02:34Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-30T17:00:51Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3361</id>
<created>2008-06-30T17:00:51Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Singer Britney Spears Has Overnight Visit With Her Boys...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/britney-spears-has-overnight-visit-with-boys">Singer Britney Spears Has Overnight Visit With Her Boys</a></p>]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>My 5-word review of Severance Package by Duane Swierczynski</title>
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<modified>2008-06-28T16:32:02Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-28T16:21:41Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3360</id>
<created>2008-06-28T16:21:41Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">It&apos;s Die Hard with timesheets!...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Media</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>It's <em>Die Hard</em> with timesheets!</p>

<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Severance-Package-Duane-Swierczynski/dp/0312343809/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214666577&sr=8-1"><img alt="severancepackage.jpg" src="http://blowingsmokethemovie.com/severancepackage.jpg" width="372" height="600" /></a></center>]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>It must be NPH Day</title>
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<modified>2008-06-27T19:55:09Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-27T19:54:00Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3359</id>
<created>2008-06-27T19:54:00Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"> Something tells me he doesn&apos;t mind a little excessive wetness....</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>TV</dc:subject>
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<p>Something tells me he doesn't mind a little excessive wetness.</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Our version should be called America&apos;s Next Top Hobbled</title>
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<modified>2008-06-27T19:18:47Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-27T19:18:07Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3358</id>
<created>2008-06-27T19:18:07Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"> (thx, a.v. club)...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>

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<p><br />
<a href="http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/tyra_banks_one_upped_by_bbc??utm_source=hater&utm_medium=RSS">(thx, a.v. club)</a></p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Too early to tell</title>
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<modified>2008-06-27T17:20:41Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-27T17:19:39Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3357</id>
<created>2008-06-27T17:19:39Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"> Teaser from Dr. Horrible&amp;#039;s Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[<center><object width="400" height="225">	<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />	<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />	<param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1227202&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" />	<embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1227202&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1227202?pg=embed&sec=1227202">Teaser</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/drhorrible?pg=embed&sec=1227202">Dr. Horrible&#039;s Sing-Along Blog</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&sec=1227202">Vimeo</a></center>]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>His fuse is short too</title>
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<modified>2008-06-27T12:35:48Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-27T12:34:27Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3356</id>
<created>2008-06-27T12:34:27Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Verne Troyer Sues TMZ...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2008/06/26/verne-troyer-sues-tmz/">Verne Troyer Sues TMZ</a></p>]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Just a little something to brighten your day</title>
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<modified>2008-06-26T19:03:36Z</modified>
<issued>2008-06-26T19:03:01Z</issued>
<id>tag:blowingsmokethemovie.com,2008://1.3355</id>
<created>2008-06-26T19:03:01Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">John Mayer to Retire?...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jim Treacher</name>
<url>http://jimtreacher.com</url>
<email>jimtreacher@aol.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Music</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/mayer%20to%20retire_1072563">John Mayer to Retire?</a></p>]]>

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