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  • In Picture This, the excellent documentary George Hickenlooper made about the making of Picture Show and its woebegotten sequel, Texasville, a furious young cowboy reaches his flash point when some gofer from the film crew tries to tell him where he might or might not park during moviemaking time.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • The visitors can't sense the joy, the pleasure that this brings, to tacky paintings, broken toys, and woebegotten things.

    *falls over* hradzka 2009

  • The media must be shown that we, if not they, regard this election as a serious affair and not as a game, as they have treated the woebegotten war in which our children are still being destroyed.

    The Duel 2007

  • His stories are tales of woebegotten souls who achieve freedom at great personal risk and sacrifice only to see that freedom stripped away through deception and cheating.

    Review of Gordon Bowker's "Inside George Orwell" 2003

  • Why must Merida be a hot and miserable concrete wasteland and San Francisco a cold and woebegotten, treeless grid of godforsaken butt-ugly streets and Paris a repository of dogsh*t and overpriced Tunisian restaurants and New Orleans a place where your hair curls ten seconds after to turn off the shower and Manhattan the ugliest imaginable conglomeration of dirty brick structures on the planet and London a cold a dreary urban nightmare and Casablanca a filthy city filled with shameless beggars and on and on.

    Neighborhoods of Merida 2009

  • Why must Merida be a hot and miserable concrete wasteland and San Francisco a cold and woebegotten, treeless grid of godforsaken butt-ugly streets and Paris a repository of dogsh*t and overpriced Tunisian restaurants and New Orleans a place where your hair curls ten seconds after to turn off the shower and Manhattan the ugliest imaginable conglomeration of dirty brick structures on the planet and London a cold a dreary urban nightmare and Casablanca a filthy city filled with shameless beggars and on and on.

    Neighborhoods of Merida 2009

  • Why must Merida be a hot and miserable concrete wasteland and San Francisco a cold and woebegotten, treeless grid of godforsaken butt-ugly streets and Paris a repository of dogsh*t and overpriced Tunisian restaurants and New Orleans a place where your hair curls ten seconds after to turn off the shower and Manhattan the ugliest imaginable conglomeration of dirty brick structures on the planet and London a cold a dreary urban nightmare and Casablanca a filthy city filled with shameless beggars and on and on.

    Neighborhoods of Merida 2009

  • Why must Merida be a hot and miserable concrete wasteland and San Francisco a cold and woebegotten, treeless grid of godforsaken butt-ugly streets and Paris a repository of dogsh*t and overpriced Tunisian restaurants and New Orleans a place where your hair curls ten seconds after to turn off the shower and Manhattan the ugliest imaginable conglomeration of dirty brick structures on the planet and London a cold a dreary urban nightmare and Casablanca a filthy city filled with shameless beggars and on and on.

    Neighborhoods of Merida 2009

  • Why must Merida be a hot and miserable concrete wasteland and San Francisco a cold and woebegotten, treeless grid of godforsaken butt-ugly streets and Paris a repository of dogsh*t and overpriced Tunisian restaurants and New Orleans a place where your hair curls ten seconds after to turn off the shower and Manhattan the ugliest imaginable conglomeration of dirty brick structures on the planet and London a cold a dreary urban nightmare and Casablanca a filthy city filled with shameless beggars and on and on.

    Neighborhoods of Merida 2009

  • Why must Merida be a hot and miserable concrete wasteland and San Francisco a cold and woebegotten, treeless grid of godforsaken butt-ugly streets and Paris a repository of dogsh*t and overpriced Tunisian restaurants and New Orleans a place where your hair curls ten seconds after to turn off the shower and Manhattan the ugliest imaginable conglomeration of dirty brick structures on the planet and London a cold a dreary urban nightmare and Casablanca a filthy city filled with shameless beggars and on and on.

    Neighborhoods of Merida 2009

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