Archive for July, 2010
28
Jul
Posted by John S in Culture, Film. Tagged: Ariadne, Christopher Nolan, Cobb, creative ambition, dreaming, dreams, Ellen Page, epistemology, extraction, ideas, Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Leonardo DiCaprio, limbo, Memento, neuroscience, Psychology, The Dark Knight, Waking Life. 3 Comments
“The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibility of dreams…if you do that, you can do anything.” —-Waking Life Here is what you do if you have a passing interest in neuroscience, psychology, or physics but are too lazy to take science classes in college: make movies. In the last [...]
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28
Jul
Posted by Tim in TV. Tagged: alison, aria, band of horses, brendan fraser, emily, emily's sexuality, flashbacks, hanna, jason dilaurentis, mr. fitz, noel's crazy bread, please do talk about me when i'm gone, pretty little liars, scenes that take place in the dark, spencer. 9 Comments
You weren’t kidding when you approvingly linked to a review of Pretty Little Liars a few Monday Medleys ago, were you? Trust me. We never use Monday Medley to kid. Seriously, though, why Pretty Little Liars? Because it’s summer, because Degrassi just isn’t fun anymore, because it’s accurately billed as Gossip Girl meets I Know [...]
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26
Jul
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: Bill Murray, charles p. pierce, Conan O'Brien, Darko Milicic, David Kahn, gq, Jason Whitlock, Joe Posnanski, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Beasley, Mitch Albom, NY Times, Paul Rudd, Room for Debate, Teach for America, The A.V. Club, the dead homer society, Tracy Morgan, Zach Galifianakis. Leave a Comment
What we read while being snookered by Fox News… Bill Murray. Need we say more? YES! In fact, GQ’s entire comedy issue is worth checking out, from a writer’s account of the last days of Conan’s Tonight Show to an interview with Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, and Tracy Morgan, and another with some of the [...]
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25
Jul
Posted by John S in TV. Tagged: AMC, anachronisms, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4, Matthew Weiner, season premiere, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, Sterling-Cooper. 1 Comment
In case you haven’t heard, the fourth season of AMC’s Mad Men premieres tonight at 10 PM. But you’ve probably heard. As I mentioned last year, Mad Men is quite the buzzworthy show, which means promotional material and spoilers are somewhat hard to avoid. Luckily, I have been able to stay somewhat sheltered from the [...]
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21
Jul
Posted by John S in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage", Culture, Sports. Tagged: Charles Barkley, dwyane wade, Larry Bird, Larry-Magic, lebron james, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, rivalry, rivals, Scottie Pippen. 15 Comments
Shut up, Michael Jordan. Nobody should be listening to you. You were an excellent basketball player—probably the best ever—but you are an arrogant, selfish idiot. We all know that by now. So nobody should care that you said you would never have called Larry Bird and Magic Johnson and asked them to join you on [...]
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20
Jul
Posted by Tim in MLB Midseason Bonanza, Sports. Tagged: aubrey huff, conversations that never happened, huston street, i'm bad at predictions, jaime garcia, jason bay < gary sheffield, josh johnson, pablo sandoval, roy halladay v. cliff lee, roy oswalt, the cubs suck, the padres are still not that good, troy glaus, ubaldo jimenez, yunel escobar. 2 Comments
So John S was all like, “When are you gonna criticize your MLB predictions? You’re just gonna hang me out to dry?” And I came back with, “You call that a criticism? I call that a hearty pat on the back you did.” To which John replied, “Yeah, well, you got a lot more wrong [...]
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20
Jul
Posted by Tim in Comedy, NPI Exclusive, Sports. Tagged: Chris Bosh, Cleveland Cavaliers, Comic Sans, Dan Gilbert, lebron james, miami heat, What the Raptors Owners Would Have Said (And Bryan Colangelo Pretty Much Did Say). Leave a Comment
Dear Toronto and All Toronto Raptors Fans, Regardless of Your Present Location; As you may have heard, our former “hero” Chris Bosh went to Miami after a prolonged, egotistical campaign played out mainly through his let’s-be-honest boring Twitter account. I want you to know that I, like you, am not in any way devastated by [...]
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19
Jul
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: American Splendor, Bob Sheppard, david foster wallace, demons, dostoevsky, dystopias, gary shteyngart, George Steinbrenner, Harvey Pekar, new york yankees, paris review, Paul Giamatti, Paul Graham, roger ebert, Shake Shack, the comeback of the colon, the millions, the nature of the fun, the Voice of God. Leave a Comment
What we read while taking advantage of the estate tax loophole… Lots of deaths this week, especially in the world of Yankee fans. Technically, Bob Sheppard, the Voice of God, died last week, but the tributes kept coming, including from the Yankees themselves. Before the team’s next home game, they lost legendary owner George Steinbrenner. [...]
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17
Jul
Posted by John S in MLB Midseason Bonanza, Sports. Tagged: AL, AL Central, AL East, AL West, american league, Boston Red Sox, Brett Gardner, Chicago White Sox, cliff lee, Curtis Granderson, Detroit Tigers, Joe Mauer, Joe Saunder and Scott Kazmir underwhelm, Justin Smoak, Kendry Morales, minnesota twins, MLB, Morales breaks his leg, new york yankees, Nick Johnson, robinson cano, Robinson Cano's breakout year, Vladimir Guerrero overwhelms. Leave a Comment
With the MLB All-Star Game come and gone, it’s time for John S and Tim to look back at their pre-season (well, more like 5 days into the season) predictions and see where they stand now. Here’s John S looking back on what he got right and what he got dead wrong. AL West What [...]
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16
Jul
Posted by Josh in Food. Tagged: bread, chains, deep dish pizza, efficiency, environmentalism, freshness, McDonald's, mediocrity, Pepperidge Farm, pret a manger. 3 Comments
Pret A Manger (“Pret”) is a London-based sandwich retail chain that has been expanding in the US. There are now 24 outlets in New York and one in Washington, DC. Despite encountering many Pret outlets in England, it was the latter outlet that gave me my first experience eating one of their celebrated fresh sandwiches. [...]
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