Yeah, I know the NBA Playoffs already started over the weekend. Big deal. Did anything that happened really change our perception going in? Especially in the East? Thought so. Pretty much ever since Michael Jordan retired, the East has been significantly worse than the West. The East has only won three championships since 1998–two of [...]
Archive for April, 2010
19 Apr
Monday Medley
What we read while kind of wishing we had at least a little volcanic ash to gaze at above: We’re big David Foster Wallace fans at NPI. So, naturally this hyerplinked list of every word that Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary fascinated us. The close of the NBA’s regular season meant the close [...]
18 Apr
A Book By a Songwriter: Bob Dylan’s Chronicles
Bob Dylan did some amazing things and lived through some amazing times: He was labeled, by some, the voice of the 60s. He was booed at the Newport Folk Festival. He met The Beatles. He converted to Christianity. He hung out with Allen Ginsburg and Johnny Cash. Should we be surprised, then, that none of [...]
17 Apr
The LeBron Question
I probably should have called this post A LeBron question, because there are really dozens of questions surrounding LeBron James right now: Where will he be playing next year? What is his ceiling? Will he win a title for Cleveland this year? Will he be better than Jordan? Etc. I, like most people, don’t know [...]
16 Apr
Survivor Survival Guide: “Survivor History”
“He just handed me $1 million. I guess he can afford it.” – Russell “I cannot believe that kid won.” – Parvati Don’t do it, JT. Don’t do it! JT did it. Continuing to act under the assumption that a strong all-female alliance is running the Villains, JT made his boldest—and dumbest—move yet: He gave [...]
16 Apr
Ranking Bob Dylan Songs, #39: Song to Woody
At the end of “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency,” the best episode of the most recent season of Mad Men, Don Draper tries to comfort his daughter, who is scared of the dark. She is scared of the dark because she thinks that her new baby brother is inhabited by the ghost of their [...]
15 Apr
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat 2, Week 2 Power Rankings
“For the first time in…six seasons, I feel powerless… This will never happen again.”—Kenny “What the hell are these Fresh Meat doing? They have opinions of their own? That is so inappropriate.” —Paula Well, our epigrams come from the same two sources as they did last week, but some people are just consistently quotable. It [...]
14 Apr
Getting Lost: Everybody Loves Hugo
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: Oh man, how excited were you to see Libby again? I know a lot of people were anxiously awaiting her return, and I hope for those people that it was everything [...]
13 Apr
My Favorite Commercial
Even though I previously called the Nike Tiger Woods ad “brilliant” (which, admittedly, may have been overstating it), it’s not my favorite commercial currently on TV. No, that honor belongs to the Slomin’s Shield. For those of you who don’t live in the New York area, and thus don’t have the privilege of seeing this [...]
12 Apr
iPad Inevitability
I will not be getting an iPad. For one, I can’t afford one. But even if I could, I don’t really see the value of it. It’s too big to carry around comfortably, and most of its functions seem like they can be performed by other tools. It functions as an e-reader, but the Kindle [...]
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