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Nota Bene #109: You Can't Tuna Fish

by Mike Sheehan on March 23, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene

“It’s absolutely stunning to me, the contempt in which the network holds the audience. The idea that these people have standards is laughable.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #108: Mm-mm, Time for Pi

by Mike Sheehan on March 14, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene

“If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #107: Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

by Mike Sheehan on March 6, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #106: [no title due to budget cuts]

by Mike Sheehan on February 26, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene

“Working for a major studio can be like trying to have sex with a porcupine. It’s one prick against thousands.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #105: The Illustrated Dick

by Mike Sheehan on February 21, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene

“When all you are becomes defined as the amount of information traceable to you, what are we then? What have we become, in a world where there is no separation, no door, no filter beyond which we can say, ‘No. This is my personal space. Not yours. Here I am alone with my thoughts and […]

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Nota Bene #104: Large Marge Sent Me

by Mike Sheehan on February 13, 2010 in Arts & Literature, Features, Music & Popular Culture, Nota Bene, Science & Technology

“Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #103: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse

by Mike Sheehan on February 9, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene, Science & Technology

“To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker—that’s like an aberration. I know there’s some young actor sitting in New York or L.A. who’s spent half of his life learning how to act and sacrificing to learn his […]

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Nota Bene #102: Dancing Limbaughs

by Mike Sheehan on February 1, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene

“What they really want to see is, they want you to chop your fucking arm off, hold up your arm, wave it around spewing blood, and believe me, if you did that, the crowd would go fucking ballistic. You only get four good shows like that, though. Four good shows, and then you’re just a […]

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Nota Bene #101: Your Pal, Mike S.

by Mike Sheehan on January 27, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene

“The guys who are shooting films now are technically brilliant, but there’s no content in their films. I marvel at what I see and wish I could have done a shot like that. But shots are secondary for my films, and with some of these films, it’s all about the shots. What’s the point? I’m […]

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Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro

by Mike Sheehan on January 16, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene

Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. “What splendid buildings our architects would be able to execute if only they could finally be less obedient to gravity!” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #99: Heed the Peace Gnome

by Mike Sheehan on January 7, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene, Scholars & Rogues

“You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #98: A More Glorious Dawn Awaits

by Mike Sheehan on December 31, 2009 in Features, Music & Popular Culture, Nota Bene, Science & Technology

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Who said it?

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