document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://www.vavavoomroom.com' class='consumed'>The Va Va Voom Room</a>. Burlesque, thankfully, does not mean &quot;like Burl Ives.&quot; Now we want to go every week!<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://www.bam.org/performances/TheIsland.asp' class='consumed'>The Island</a> -- an amazing work of theater, as much for its performance as for its history and politics.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0295297' class='consumed'>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</a>. How is it that they can suck all the life out of the book? Is it some sort of spell?<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0010323' class='consumed'>Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari</a>. Murder. Madness. German Expressionist sets.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087280' class='consumed'>Forbrydelsens element</a>. One of von Trier's first features, a dreamlike / nightmarish combination of Kafka, <a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088846' class='consuming'>Brazil</a>, <a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0052893' class='consuming'>Hiroshima mon amour</a>, and Beckett. Filmed in brown!<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60025342' class='consumed'>Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3: Disc 4</a>. Xander gets cool. Faith goes bad. Giles gets fired.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://www.triptronix.net/ishbadiddle/blogarchive/2002_10_20_blogarchive.html#83353261' class='consumed''>Spirited Away</a>. Still wonderful the second time around.<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0258463' class='consumed'>The Bourne Identity</A>. Someone told us it was good B-movie fare. No offense to that someone, but it should have been called The Boring Identity. The story of a man who wakes up not knowing who he is, chased by killers, involved with a beautiful woman... if only they'd set it on <a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100802' class='consuming'>Mars</A>...<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60025341' class='consumed'>Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3: Disc 3</a>. Evil Xander! Evil Willow! Evil Joyce! Everybody turns eeeevil!<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0104057'class='consumed'>Daughters of the Dust</a>. Maybe we were just tired, but after 40 min neither of us knew what the hell was going on. And.... everything... moved.... so... slowly....<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60004556' class='consumed'>Powerpuff Girls: The Mane Event</a></strike>. Buttercup rules. Includes McCracken's original pilot for the PPG, the Whoopass Girls. Also, DVD commentary by Mojo Jojo!<br><Br></span>")

document.write("<span class='consuming'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060934980/ref%3Dnosim/ishbadiddle-20' class='consumed'>Clockers,</a> Richard Price. Spike Lee's adaptation was way off the mark (see below). The novel was worth rereading.<br><Br></span>")