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Weeds - Quirky show, but jury is still out
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Written by Antony Chen   
Thursday, 11 January 2007

My sister of all people told me about Weeds, a show on Showtime.  I don't have Showtime as I'm too cheap to pay for premium channels, so I started renting season one through Netflix.

I'm addicted to the premise of a mother who ends up having to be a neighborhood pot dealer because her husband dies and doesn't want to change her lifestyle.

The show is quirky as hell too.  I'm just waiting to see where the show is going to go.  Maybe I'll have to get Showtime. 

Seoul Garden (Ann Abor, MI)
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Written by Antony Chen   
Thursday, 11 January 2007

Having now been there a few times and other Korean restaurants in the area, I've determined that this is the best Korean food in Ann Arbor.  Granted, most of the time I'll go to Seoul Korner, but that more has to do with laziness about driving all the way down near the Briarwood Mall area than it is about the food.

I usually rate Korean places on the quality of their Bibimbop, sides, and service.  Seoul Garden does all of them fairly well.  The service is respectable, the sides are upscale (i.e. seaweed, steamed egg, etc), and the bibimbop is pretty authentic.

Miami Vice - The critics were wrong
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Written by Antony Chen   
Thursday, 04 January 2007

Usually, the critics are wrong when they slam a perfectly entertaining movie, but for once, the opposite is true.  Most reviews by respected critics gave this movie a passable review by saying it was gritty.  There were a few aspects of the movie that were interesting such as how the filmed the major shootout scene, which was shot from a first-person perspective, almost like you're playing Doom, but everything else in the movie was almost pure crap.

I could go off about it for several pages, but I'll save you the trouble and just tick a few off:  Colin Farrell mumbles through the whole movie to the point where I had to turn the subtitles on to understand him.  The love scenes were raunchy yet lame.  Gong Li is hot, but doesn't pass for a Latina.  The plot was extremely disjointed and hard to follow.  I don't think anyone spoke in a full sentence (noun + verb).  The end of the movie was anti-climatic.  I'm guessing they did this so they could set it up for a sequel.

I won't be paying to see the sequel and I'm really glad I didn't go to see this at the theater.  I already felt like it was a waste of 2 hours 20 minutes.

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