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Coco before Chanel

By Laura Conrad | Published: March 4, 2010
The big disappointment in this movie was that I didn't really enjoy looking at the clothes. This defect is inherent in one of the good qualities of the movie -- it's about the period in Coco Chanel's life when she's looking at all the clothes around her and hating them and thinking she could do [...]
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Bright Star

By Laura Conrad | Published: February 5, 2010
This is one of the best movies I've ever seen about a poet. The people who make movies in general do better with composers -- you're going to need background music anyway. You can actually have background poetry in some cases, as the reading of Ode to a Nightingale over the closing credits of this [...]
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Christmas Shopping Status

By Laura Conrad | Published: December 6, 2009
It's a busy day (the afternoon at the Pub Carol Sing and the morning turning an old client site into a the new wordpress-based site). So I'll just tell you how the Christmas shopping is going. I don't do all of it online, but I have a firm rule that I never go into any [...]
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Following up

By Laura Conrad | Published: April 20, 2009
Spring I mentioned that I'd retired my winter jacket for the Spring on Good Friday. This turns out to have been a couple of days early, as there was a cold, raw wind on Easter Sunday morning. Since then, my lightweight spring jacket has been fine, though. Baseball Immediately after the Opening Day game that [...]
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MBT Shoes

By Laura Conrad | Published: April 14, 2009
I bought these shoes a couple of weeks ago, and thought I'd tell you about them. The hype for MBT shoes is pretty aggressive, but at least some of it is true. I haven't lost thirty pounds in two weeks, or gotten to really like standing in one place for hours at a time, but [...]
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