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Dispatches From Planet Hockey: “Give Me Some Rope, Tie Me To Dream” Edition

Jas Faulkner | May 24, 2012

commentary by Jas Faulkner, contributing editor Poor Dan Harmon.  Somehow he has stumbled from the land of showrunners where critical success can keep you going for years until you can…

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satire by Jas Faulkner, contributing editor The commercial flight back to Nashville was an almost welcome distraction after the series of rickety little planes that took me leap by grasshopper-like…

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