Archive for December, 2010
31
Dec
Posted by Tim in Comedy, Culture, Film, Social Norms, Vignettes. Tagged: mila kunis, Natalie Portman, New Year's Eve, the black swan. Leave a Comment
: any ideas? : i just want to have fun : stop : i just want to have fun : i get it : all i want, is to have fun : you done? happy? : this is fun : im sure it is so im guessing you have no ideas : i have no [...]
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28
Dec
Posted by Tim in Hindsight 2010, Literature, Sunday Book Review. Tagged: aurelie mcintyre, bethani, ed's doughnut house, grim de-dreamification, howard the coward, i'll admit that there are a lot of extraliterary reasons i liked this, lucky condoms, pachelbel's canon in d, paul murray, ruprecht van doren, seabrook secondary school, shots at "a separate peace" (what else is new?), skippy dies, taylor swift AND miley cyrus. 1 Comment
“We’re too old We’re not old at all.” —“Bear,” The Antlers In the opening scene of Skippy Dies, in which the climactic and eponymous action of Paul Murray’s novel occurs on the floor of Ed’s Doughnut House, Daniel “Skippy” Juster attempts to scribble, with jelly as his ink, his final message to the world. “Tell [...]
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27
Dec
Posted by John S in Comedy, Hindsight 2010, TV. Tagged: 2010, Aaron Paul, atheism, best episodes of 2010, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Community, Don Draper, Elisabeth Moss, Fly, God, hindsight 2010, Jesse Pinkman, Jon Hamm, Lost, Lost final season, Lost The End, Louie, Louis C.K., Mad Men, Mad Men Season Four, Modern Warfare, most memorable episodes of 2010, paintball episode, Peggy Olsen, Rian Johnson, sitcoms, The End, The Suitcase, Walter White. Leave a Comment
5. “God,” Louie One of the reasons the superlative in the title of this post is “memorable” and not “best” is to make room for episodes like “God.” It wasn’t the funniest episode of the first season of Louie—and it wasn’t even necessarily my favorite—but it was certainly the most distinct and memorable episode of [...]
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27
Dec
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: a year in reading, atheism, best movies of 2010, christmas, cool free throw, Freakonomics Blog, Hayley Williams, idaho state, jason gay, Jesus Christ, Life of Brian, mets, michael weinreb, Misery Business, monty python, movies, new york jets, Nintendo, Paramore, Ricky Gervais, roger ebert, ron artest, social media, Super Mario Brothers, The Baseball Economist, the millions, The New Yorker, The Wire, Top Ten Lists, wall street journal. Leave a Comment
What we read while regifting… In honor of the greatest holiday ever, here’s Esquire‘s “What I’ve Learned” interview with Jesus H. Christ. And Ron Artest’s conjecture on the Savior’s basketball box scores. Your Christmas spirit may have distracted you from the big news from last week: Paramore broke up! Regardless of your opinion of the [...]
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26
Dec
Posted by Josh in Hindsight 2010, Law. Tagged: Alex Kozinski, bow ties, cert pool, death penalty, fact-intensive, john paul stevens, jurisprudence, living constitutionalism, methodology, originalism, particularism, Richard Posner, university of chicago. 5 Comments
Hindsight 20/10- Over the next few days, we will be reflecting on the past year in a series of posts. Josh begins with the Retiree of the Year: Since 2005, Supreme Court Justices Rehnquist, O’Connor, Souter, and most recently, Stevens departed from their coveted positions on the bench. As a law student, I read a [...]
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25
Dec
Posted by Jake in Comedy, Education, Mere Anachrony, Politics, Social Norms, This Day in Revisionist History. Tagged: blintzes, British, christmas, Christmas miracles, Christmas Truce, Germans, naivete, Secret Santa, trenches, triumph of the human spirit, whooping cough, world war I. Leave a Comment
December 25: “Okay, I’m just spit-balling here, but what if we organized some type of Secret Santa?”- the rather feckless Lt. Cecil Farnsworth to his commanding officers during World War I, shortly after combat with the Germans was unofficially suspended in the famous “Christmas Truce.” Cecil Farnsworth had been an only child, and with no [...]
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25
Dec
Posted by Tim in Comedy, Culture, Literature, NPI Exclusive. Tagged: 19th century british slang, a christmas carol, charles dickens, ebenezer scrooge, jacob marley, marley and marley, muppet christmas carol, waldorf and statler. Leave a Comment
No, I’ve just got one question: What the hell, man? Why him and not me? Why was it all cool for me to proceed uninterrupted into this nightmare of chains, but oh, we can’t bear to let poor old Ebenezer rot in the same way? What has he done to earn redemption that I didn’t [...]
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24
Dec
Posted by Tim in Culture, Religion, TV. Tagged: a charlie brown christmas, a garfield christmas special, charles dickens, christmas is great, christmas specials are also great, christmas time is here, frosty the snowman, how the grinch stole christmas, north pole as evil corporate syndicate, professor hinkle as evil evil evil, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, the muppet christmas carol. claymation christmas celebration, welcome christmas. 1 Comment
If John S can rerun his attack on Christmas, Tim is compelled to react in kind. Here’s his breakdown of Christmas specials from last year. Unlike my I-can’t-believe-I-still-call-him-a friend, John S, I love Christmas. It is, without doubt, the most wonderful time of the year. The week before Christmas, I indulge in one of my [...]
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22
Dec
Posted by Jake in Comedy, Culture, Food, Law, Politics, This Day in Revisionist History, Uncategorized. Tagged: baking, bernie goetz, ciabatta recipe, deja vu, guns, interracial friendships, jive five, new york, NYPD, paintball, panhandling, self-defense, subgroups, subway. Leave a Comment
December 22: “Wow, talk about déjà vu! Although I still don’t know why you’re not armed, or how you guys talked me into doing this.” – Bernhard “Bernie” Goetz, after rapidly shooting four unarmed black men in a game of paintball several hours after escaping the scene of his subway shootings. Bernie, Jamal, Deion, Marcus, [...]
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20
Dec
Posted by Tim in TV. Tagged: backstabbing, chase rice, dan lembo, fabio, fabio delivers a colby-like performance, final five, final three v. final two, holly hoffman, i do not like final threes, jane bright, jimmy johnson, judfabio, judson birza, marty piombo, naonka's unpredictability wins it to the end, not making enemies, playing dumb, redemption island = bad idea, sash is a nyc river rat, sash lenahan, survivor finale, survivor survival guide, Survivor: Nicaragua, the essence of survivor, the reunion was lame as always, wishy-washy. 6 Comments
“It comes down to knowing yourself very well. I’m very aware of the vibes I’m giving off and how people perceive them.” —JudFabio, summarizing in two sentences the essence of Survivor So much of this 21st season of Survivor has paled in comparison to its 20th iteration. The castaways were not only unfamiliar, but seemingly [...]
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