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Linda Holmes writes and edits NPR's entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See. She has several elaborate theories involving pop culture and monkeys, all of which are available on request.

Holmes began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living-room space to DVD sets of The Wire and never looked back.

Holmes was a writer and editor at Television Without Pity, where she recapped several hundred hours of programming — including both High School Musical movies, for which she did not receive hazard pay. Since 2003, she has been a contributor to MSNBC.com, where she has written about books, movies, television and pop-culture miscellany.

Holmes' work has also appeared on Vulture (New York magazine's entertainment blog), in TV Guide and in many, many legal documents.

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1:55pm

Wed December 21, 2011
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Callin' Oates: The Hotline You Don't Need (But Might Call Anyway)

Originally published on Thu December 29, 2011 6:08 pm

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Is it pure whimsy that makes something like "Callin' Oates" appealing?

If you pick up your phone and call 719-26-OATES — at least as of this writing — you'll get a computerized woman's voice telling you what numbers to press to hear one of four Hall & Oates songs.

The question, of course, is ... why?

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12:01am

Fri December 16, 2011
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Diablo Cody Explores The Ugly Side Of Pretty In 'Young Adult'

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Charlize Theron is ugly in Young Adult, the new film from the Juno team of director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody — both literally and personally. In parts of the film, she still looks like her knockout movie-star self, but in other parts, she looks like she's aged a year for every day since her character, Mavis Gary, left high school.

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12:03pm

Thu December 8, 2011
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So The Mythbusters Punched A Hole In A House With A Cannonball. Now What?

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So ... now what?

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8:35am

Wed December 7, 2011
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Raise A Glass Of Butterbeer As Potter's 'Wizarding World' Comes To Hollywood

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You might think Harry Potter fever would be petering out now that the books and the films have come and gone. You, of course, would be wrong, as Ben Bergman reports on today's Morning Edition.

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3:15pm

Fri December 2, 2011
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Bow Bow, Chk-a-Bow: Five Voices Rise To The Top Of TV's A Cappella Competition

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