A few times before, I’ve used a season-ending review to claim that the most recent season of a great show has not been up to the standards of the show. While I stand by those claims, I do acknowledge that there is a natural tendency to romanticize the past and, as a result, unfairly denigrate [...]
Archive for February, 2010
15 Feb
Monday Medley
What we read while practicing torch lighting for 2012…. John S reviewed Lauren Conrad’s latest book, the new best-seller Sweet Little Lies. Conrad went on Good Morning America to promote it. Meanwhile, her old nemesis Heidi Montag announced that she’ll pose for Playboy… again. Malcolm Gladwell on inebriation and the sociology of drinking. Tyler Cowen [...]
14 Feb
L.A. Candy: First It’s Sour, Then It’s… Sweet Little Lies
“Interesting,” said Madison, although really, it wasn’t interesting at all.—Sweet Little Lies When we last left the loosely life-like literary creations of Lauren Conrad, they were deeply mired in controversy. Our heroine, Jane Roberts, had just slept with her boyfriend’s best friend and, once the tabloids had gotten hold of the photographic evidence of the [...]
13 Feb
Oh, Canada!: The Opening Ceremonies
The XXI Winter Olympiad opened last night in Vancouver, British Columbia with the unenviable task of following up on Beijing’s $100 million Opening Ceremony. With half the budget, the Canadians delivered more than their share of camp, laughs, and torch anxiety. There wasn’t enough excitement around the event to really necessitate a Live Blog (this [...]
12 Feb
Ranking Bob Dylan Songs, #111: Gospel Plow
Bob Dylan’s religious beliefs have always been a source of mystery and confusion. Most of the controversy stems from his conversion to Christianity in the late 1970s and the three evangelical albums he released before apparently relapsing back to Judaism. It’s hard to deny that his time as a born-again Christian was one of the [...]
12 Feb
Survivor Survival Guide: “Slay Everyone, Trust No One”
“These All-Stars, I feel I’m above them. Like Michael Jordan in basketball, Michael Phelps in swimming, there’s always someone that’s above their sport. That’s me. I’m the best to ever play this game, and now I get to prove it.” —Russell, Villain “To win this game of Survivor, you have to have a dark side [...]
11 Feb
In Search of 65, Week 1
You didn’t honestly expect us to do a weekly column on college basketball and not include bracket predictions (or a bracketology, as ESPN has conditioned us to call it), did you? My qualifications are as follows: This is, unbelievably to me, the eighth year I’ve tried to predict the field. I started before I knew [...]
10 Feb
Getting Lost: What Kate Does
It’s time for another installment of “Getting Lost,” where John S takes you through all the salient questions from last night’s episode of Lost: So, how excited were you for this episode? Ugh. At least this time they put Kate’s name in the title, so I knew going in that this episode would probably be [...]
9 Feb
Unabated to the QB, The Super Bowl: This Was It
“This, to use an American term, in which discovery, retribution, torture, death, eternity appear in the shape of a regularly repulsive nutshell, was it.” —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Super Bowl XLIV had been what we expected and more: a first-class battle between two phenomenal quarterbacks coming down to the final four minutes. The only thing that [...]
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