Archive for May, 2010
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May
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: Alan Sepinwall, Bill Simmons, david foster wallace, Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, Emily Nussbaum, Entertainment Weekly, hitfix, hoosiers, IFC, jason lambert, Jeff Jensen, Lady Gaga, Lost, Lost finale, Lost finale ratings, Lost Finale Special, M.I.A., M.I.A. v. Lynn Hirschberg, mental floss, millennium trilogy, miss cellania, new york times magazine, Noel Murray, randall munroe, roger ebert, stieg larsson, tetris, The AV Club, The Middle World in Life, the millions, thoroughly impolite dustups, True Romance, vulture, will leitch, xkcd. Leave a Comment
What we read while getting caught watching the paint dry… That great scene from True Romance comes to honor Dennis Hopper, who passed away on Saturday. Hopper had a memorable career as an actor, as this video The Middle Word in Life recounts. IFC wanted to make sure that Hopper’s great acting career didn’t overshadow [...]
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May
Posted by John S in Culture, TV. Tagged: celebrity couple nicknames, fake divorces, fake marriages, Heidi Montag, Heidi Pratt, MTV, Nicole Kidman, portmanteaus, reality television, Spencer and Heidi breakup, Spencer Pratt, The Hills, the reality of The Hills, To Die For. 1 Comment
Sometimes something can seem both inevitable and impossible. Like the first successful moon landing, or the election of America’s first black president, thus is the feeling when news broke yesterday that Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag had broken up. On the one hand, anyone who watched The Hills or did merely a cursory overview of [...]
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29
May
Posted by John S in Law, Politics. Tagged: 46 year old legislation, desegregation, dumbed down political discourse, in defense of, Jim Crow laws, kentucky, MSNBC, property rights, Rachel Maddow, racism, Rand Paul, Rand Paul is obvs a racist, rights, segregation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, US Senate seat, Woolworth's lunch counters. 1 Comment
It’s not often that a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky becomes a national political figure, but Rand Paul has been in the news a lot lately. First, it was for his surprising and convincing (and surprisingly convincing) win in the Republican primary for a Kentucky Senate seat two weeks ago, and then it [...]
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May
Posted by Tim in Comedy, TV. Tagged: babysitter lionel hutz, bill mcneal, clinton at mcdonald's, cooking with the anal retentive chef, dumpster law, in memoriam, joyride with perot, lionel hutz, mcclure's comeback, newsradio, one more mission, phil hartman, phil hartman tribute, president reagan mastermind, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, troy mcclure. 2 Comments
It was 12 years ago today that Phil Hartman was killed. Even when I was only 11, I recognized the comic genius of Phil Hartman. I remember Hartman as the voice of several of my favorite Simpsons characters, the star of one of my favorite shows growing up in Newsradio, one of the first actors [...]
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27
May
Posted by John S in Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Sports, TV. Tagged: anatomy of a bell, Carley doesn't know where she is, Evelyn is mad, Exile in the dark, Fresh Meat 2, Fresh Meat 2 rankings, Landon, Landon and Carley, Landon and Carley vs. Luke and Evelyn, Landon is awesome again, Luke and Ev are fighting, Luke and Evelyn, MTV, Noor does well, Power Rankings, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, the clapper, To Be Continued, who went home on fresh meat 2 last night?. 6 Comments
“Evelyn is fuming, but, you know, every time Evelyn loses a challenge, an angel gets his wings.” —Ryan “How do you know my name?” —Carley I hate you, MTV. I hate you with a fiery passion strong enough to wean America off of foreign oil. At least once a season, it seems, MTV annoyingly cuts [...]
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May
Posted by Pierre Menard in Sports, The Sports Revolution. Tagged: a brief digression on referee signals across sports, and one, dwyane wade, expected values, i was told there would be no math, kobe bryant, marv albert, marv albert's emphasis on prepositional phrases, Michael Jordan, paul pierce, Pierre Menard, pierre's beefs with the nba, six-point plays would be pretty cool, the overextension of continuation, wally szczerbiak, why and ones are unfair. Leave a Comment
Let me set the scene for you: You are playing the game of basketball, and you drive to the basket, and you are fouled on a layup attempt that you miss. You receive two free throws. The next play, the same thing occurs, except that you make the layup. You receive one free throw. Let [...]
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25
May
Posted by Tim in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Culture, Social Norms. Tagged: asbury park press, hollis towns, in defense of jughandles, jughandles, new jersey stereotypes, the concept of selective punishment, the safety of jughandles, traffic issues, weird logic behind comparisons, why jughandles are great. Leave a Comment
New Jersey is a state a lot of people like to make fun of. It is popularly stereotyped by its two famous television programs–The Sopranos and Jersey Shore*–and is home to all sorts of crazy quirks, from the law prohibiting us to pump our own gas to the pungent odor north of Exit 13 on [...]
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24
May
Posted by John S in Culture, Getting Lost, TV. Tagged: "All of this matters", afterlife, alternate realities, Christian Shephard, everyone is dead, existentialism, existentialism in Lost, Friedrich Nietzsche, Getting Lost, Jack Shephard, Jack's eye, john locke, Locke is dead, Lost, Lost final season, Lost finale, Lost Finale Special, Lost Season Six, man of science v. man of faith, Nietzschean philosophy in Lost, purgatory, Sideways, the core four, The End, the Eternal Return. 2 Comments
It’s time for the final installment of “Getting Lost,” where John S takes you through all the questions, answers, themes, motifs, mysteries, ideas, propositions, and quandaries raised by last night’s series finale of Lost: “What if a demon crept after thee into thy loneliest loneliness some day or night, and said to thee: ‘This life, [...]
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24
May
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: 1/2 x + 7, adam wheeler, armenian heresiology, brooklyn ink, canada v. america, charles p. pierce, David Shields, disagreeing with Joe Posnanski, field of dreams, harvard frauds, hockey in the south, Joe Posnanski, Lost, marco roth, mikhail prokhorov, monty python, n+1, new jersey nets, Reality Hunger, the awl, the walrus, zoroastrian cosmology. Leave a Comment
What we read while letting go… Sure, it was cool of Mikhail Prokhorov to handpick a blogger to sit down with for one of his first American interviews. But, we can’t help but feel a little spurned. I mean, Tim loves the Nets! John S wrote his review of David Shields’ Reality Hunger a few [...]
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May
Posted by John S in Getting Lost, TV. Tagged: alternate realities, convoluted explanation, Desmond sacrifice, exploding people, Jack as the new Jacob, Lost, Lost explosion, Lost final season, Lost finale, Lost Finale Special, Lost predictions, move the Island, Sideways, sideways stories will be "sideways" no longer, the core four, The End, What They Died For. Leave a Comment
Well, this is it. We’ve made it to the end: The final episode of Lost, appropriately titled “The End,” airs tonight at 9 PM. I’ve looked back at the series’ past, but now it’s time to look at where it stands now. Who’s left on the Island? We’re down to a slim, manageable number of [...]
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