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  • Go For the Giant Cans of Import Beer. Pari-mutuel Democracy | 5/22/2013
  • A Hero Ain’t Nothing but a Manwich The third Iron Man movie is better than the second one but not as good as The Avengers | 5/8/2013
  • Column Helper Before I begin this week’s “Mr. Wrong” column, I would like to give you an update on the One Hundred and Fifty Dollars and No Cents’ worth of scratch-off lottery tickets I bought with the very first paycheck I received in remuneration for this, the New, Imp | 5/8/2013
  • Mr. Wrong The City That Leaves the Left-Turn Blinker on | 5/1/2013
  • Still Scratchin’ I bet a lot of people scratch-off some scratch-offs and don’t even realize they won, especially if they are in a dimly lit environment, you know? | 4/24/2013
  • Doing what I love: Scratch-Offs If I type: “I love to Get Paid,” I receive the sum of 75 cents, I Love that! | 4/17/2013
  • Fit to Print UMBC presents a cropmarks-and-all look at newspaper photographs | 4/17/2013
  • The Place Beyond the Pines The Place Beyond the Pines Directed by Derek Cianfrance Now playing Wow, this is not an easy movie, but what a great movie, and what a novelty. | 4/17/2013
  • Please Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself Yeah man, so now I am back, Getting Paid on a weekly basis to leave words on a page for you, the Gentle Reader. It's up to you to read them. | 4/10/2013
  • Junket Junkie Scottish celebrity meets a Baltimorean | 3/20/2013
  • Olympus Has Fallen Every few years, Hollywood rolls out an Action Movie that tries to maim, kill, or otherwise harm The President of The United States of America. | 3/20/2013
  • A Good Day to Die Hard Bruce Willis, America’s posterboy for male-pattern baldness, | 2/20/2013
  • Not Fade Away A well-controlled and surprisingly not-depressing story about real life behind the music. | 1/9/2013
  • Hopkins Pizza 2724 Remington Ave., (410) 554-9797, Open seven days, 10 a.m.-midnight | 12/12/2012
  • Best Wishes Next week is my annually favorite episode of Baltimore’s Best Alternative Weekly, to wit: Best of Baltimore! It is the Best, seriously, there are some other printed-on-paper publications publicating their own Best-ofs out there, but nobody brings the Bes | 9/11/2012
  • Bitter Pizza to Swallow I HOPE THIS IS A trick or a publicity stunt or a way to get somebody interested in buying into their business, but I read on The Baltimore Sun’s Internet at 4:05 p.m., EDT on June 15, 2012, by Richard Gorelick, all about how Iggies, which is a place that | 6/20/2012
  • The real Sterling Coopers at work Taschen volumes feature two decades of Madison Avenue selling the sizzle | 6/13/2012
  • Mid-Century Ads: Advertising From the Mad Men Era Taschen volumes feature two decades of Madison Avenue selling the sizzle | 6/6/2012
  • I win! A couple-few weeks ago I announced a contest for people to become Editor-In-Chief of your Baltimore City Paper, or hey, better yet, about how I, me, the writer of the “Mr. Wrong” column, should be Editor-In-Chief. | 6/6/2012
  • Help Wanted Have you ever thought about being an Editor-in-Chief of a Major Metropolitan Alternative Newsweekly? Hey, this paper you are holding or web site you are clicking on is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief, did you know that? Yeah, that is gonna be an exc | 5/9/2012
  • Bicycle Issues Sometimes I walk my bike downhill, seriously. | 4/18/2012
  • Jim Breuer Q&A with Goat Boy, Dad, and a Spiritual Warrior Jim Breuer | 4/11/2012
  • Opening Day-After So this week is Baseball Season, the beginning of it, and I’m totally into it, attending Baseball Games, even though I generally don’t start “paying attention” to Baseball Season, statistically, with “The Standings” and stuff | 4/4/2012
  • Reach for the Skybox Your server works for tips. | 3/21/2012
  • Undefeated Oscar-winning doc focuses on what it takes to compete when you can’t | 3/14/2012
  • Ready, Go, Set! So I think it looks like there is probably-maybe gonna be another Baltimore Grand Prix of go-fast cars here on the Streets of Baltimore, and I am in favor of it, because I am in favor of all kinds of events and activities that are supposed to be good for | 2/29/2012
  • “Entrepreneurial Center” = Free Parking Politically wired company reneges on job creation | 2/22/2012
  • Bank Holiday This is one of my most favorite times of the year, seriously, but not because of the weather, because, like, no offense, even if it’s “good” for February, it’s still February all up in here on the mid-Atlantic chunk of the Eastern Seaboard where I dwell, | 2/15/2012
  • A Big Bowl of Sad Wow, hey Baltimore, I’m sorry man, nobody wanted to think about Your Baltimore Ravens losing, but damn, nobody ever thought they would go out like that, on a last-minute missed field goal, ouch, seriously, that is, well, it is just Sad, you know? They co | 1/25/2012
  • The End of the Year as We Know it Hey, it’s a New Year! Did you have a good New Year’s? Are you having a good New Year? It’s a lotta pressure, huh? A shiny New Year! People get all excited about how it’s the End of the year because that means it’s almost the Beginning of the year, when | 1/4/2012
  • Interview With Patton Oswalt The performer talks about writing, acting, and the Golden Age of Baltimore comedy | 12/14/2011
  • Young Adult After her divorce, writer Mavis Gary retuns home to small-town Minnesota. | 12/14/2011
  • Top 10! Hey, I dunno if you noticed yet as you flip through these pages of paper or pixel, but this week is one of my fave-rave editions of Baltimore’s Listiest Alternative Weekly, namely Top 10, where we, as in all the people who write words into the paper and d | 12/14/2011
  • Menu Design in America Massive tome celebrates 135 years of the humble menu | 11/16/2011
  • Major Taser I don’t like being cut off from reality, and if I corked up my earholes it’d be nothing but the Voices and the Bad Music bouncing around all up in there, no thanks, you know? | 11/16/2011
  • De-Conquista Next week is Halloween, and no offense, but I am not observing it this year, on account of I am going to be enjoying a vacation in Mexico as a tourist. | 10/26/2011
  • Thunder Soul Thunder Soul is a joyous, touching, and inspiring documentary about the 2008 35th-year reunion of the Kashmere High School Stage Band of Houston, Texas. | 10/5/2011
  • Fundamental Lack of Respect for the Mr. Wrong column So yeah, the Mr. Wrong column is a lot like Where the Sun Don’t Shine, except it is an Award-Winning Where the Sun Don’t Shine for the year Two Thousand and Eleven, see? | 10/5/2011
  • Bobcat Goldthwait The multi-hyphenate comic talks about his new film, the endangered truth, and Diablo Cody cramming it | 9/28/2011
  • Chicanery I am still hyped about this Grand Prix that is gonna happen here in Baltimore, Maryland, America. | 8/24/2011
  • It is an Honor to be Nominated But it is Always Better to Win The Mr. Wrong column has been selected as the “First Place,” i.e., the “best” column in the Association of Alternative Newsmedia “AAN Awards” | 8/3/2011
  • Cowboys & Aliens You don’t have to think, just let it happen. | 8/3/2011
  • Captain America: The First Avenger This is the latest comic-book movie about a guy who gets made into some sort of super soldier. | 7/27/2011
  • It Is An Honor Just To Be Nominated From the Wireless Keyboard office in The Future in my new Temporary Headquarters within the Wynn Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada, Earth. | 7/13/2011
  • Green Lantern A hotshot test pilot is given a magic ring by the police of the universe. | 6/22/2011
  • Super 8 This is a fun summer-blockbuster kind of movie set in the late 1970s/early ‘80s, and it looks and behaves like a Steven Spielberg movie. | 6/15/2011
  • Aggregated There’s a lot of crap out there on the Internet that I don’t understand. | 6/15/2011
  • X-Men: First Class Our latest attraction in the Summer of Comic Book movies is a Prequel, Reboot—hey, let’s call it a Preboot, OK? | 6/8/2011
  • Everything Must Go Omnipresent funnyman Will Ferrell changes it up and goes serious as a guy who loses his job, wife, etc. | 5/11/2011
  • Mission Accomplished I am gonna miss Osama Bin Laden. Now please don’t let me be misunderstood here, OBL getting double-tapped out doesn’t change anything for the thousands who got blown up in the towers or killed fighting wars in all the places we (as in U.S.) have been warr | 5/4/2011
  • Cedar Rapids A socially stunted insurance salesman is forced to attend the titular convention, schmooze it up, and vie for a Prestigious Award with the future success of his company in the balance. | 4/13/2011
  • Bill Burr On podcasting as career tool and place to be a jerk | 4/6/2011
  • Taxation Combination I don’t wanna harsh anybody’s mellow or anything, but the deadline for filing the Income Taxes here in the State of Maryland is April 15. | 3/30/2011
  • Paul This comedy movie is “Rated R for language including sexual references, and some drug use,” but it’s a gentle and funny “R” in the hands of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. | 3/23/2011
  • Battle: Los Angeles This is a movie about Space Aliens attacking the Earth: KA-BOOM, yeah. | 3/16/2011
  • Drive Angry If you can’t take a movie with gore and tits and ass and mayhem and cars and shit that blows up real good and naked bitch-slapping and crude but effective dialogue and guns and bigger guns and cigarettes and ass-whuppings then stay home. | 3/2/2011
  • Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son A big, fat, stinky adventure in sequel-milking. | 3/2/2011
  • Cedar Rapids A socially stunted insurance salesman is forced to attend the titular convention, schmooze it up, and vie for a Prestigious Award with the future success of his company in the balance. | 3/2/2011
  • The Pain Never Ends "I subscribe to the Kubrick policy about discussing your own work, to wit: Do not." | 2/23/2011
  • Meathead-itis So Your Baltimore Ravens did not advance further into the Playoffs after surviving the “Wild Card”—or something like that. As with so many other things it’s kinda hazy for me, like they were in the “Wild Card” and they won, but then they were in the “Conf | 1/19/2011
  • The Dilemma The idea here is whether or not to tell your best friend his spouse is cheating on him. Obviously we all know the answer. | 1/19/2011
  • Season of the Witch It’s not even like it’s bad enough to goof on, it’s just very not good. | 1/12/2011
  • Little Fockers While this movie certainly is a big stinky turd, there are some small fragments of comedy-corn. | 12/22/2010
  • Jesus Christ, Get Off The Hon™ Lady's Back Already I don’t know anything about this lady who owns the Café Hon restaurant except for all the Hate she’s been getting since she Legally Trademarked™ the HON™ thing. | 12/22/2010
  • Tron: Legacy Not everyone is a Jedi-Nerd, so we need to explain this is a sequel to a computer animation 1.0 science-fiction movie that was made in the year 1982. | 12/22/2010
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 12/8/2010
  • Thanksgivingfullness' First Finale Thanksgiving is now, and seriously, Thanksgiving is gravy-stained-hands-down my most favorite of all Holidays-with-a-Captial-H besides Super Bowl. | 11/24/2010
  • The Revolution Will Be Televised I like teevee, and before there was a Great Recession, I used to fucking mainline it, baby, I mean, I had every flavor of that sweet cable stuff, seriously: Showtime and Home Box and Cinemax and Starz and The Movie Channel, all On-Demand and in Demand | 10/27/2010
  • Pet Rock Edward Norton leads accomplished actors in an actorly excercise in acting | 10/20/2010
  • Jackass 3D Boy is it stupid, and boy is it senseless, and boy is it, well, regrettably hilarious. How’s that for a movie-ad quotable with some stars next to it? Regrettably Hilarious! (Star-star-star-star.) | 10/15/2010
  • Welcome to the Machine City Paper sent Mr. Wrong and $100 to Maryland's first casino--only Mr. Wrong came back | 10/6/2010
  • I'm Still Here For better or worse, Joaquin Phoenix documentary is exactly what you expect it to be | 9/24/2010
  • Fall Preview Review Fall always used to bum me out because it meant “back to school,” but now that I don’t ever have to go to school anymore (it didn’t work) I am pleased to enjoy Fall for stuff such as fewer brain-frying 90-degree days and, uh, I dunno, less daylight? | 9/29/2010
  • Best Complaint Complaining about things is a legitimate form of communication, OK? | 8/25/2010
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World The young women characters make this comic-book adaptation really fly | 8/13/2010

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