Archive for January, 2011
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Jan
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: Aaron Schatz, Atul Gawande, Ayn Rand, Ben McGrath, Bill Keller, bob bender, bryan caplan, Civil Rights, concussions, dead spot, egypt, Football Outsiders, Greatest Super Bowls of All Time, Hulu, james parker, julian assange, kevin harlan, Kevin Smith, Kurt Cobain, Louis C.K., mets, nba pace, NFL, press box daily, Pro Bowl, rohan cruyff, Rolling Stone, Sarah Palin, sportscenter, Super Bowl Sunday, tennis, The Atlantic, the new york times, The New Yorker, Twitter, WFAN, wikileaks, Win the Future. Leave a Comment
What we read while they got really excited for the Pro Bowl in Cairo… Man, how about that Pro Bowl?! Almost makes Super Bowl Sunday look anticlimactic, huh? Aaron Schatz of Football Outsiders has been helping the hype over at Hulu, where he has been counting down the 10 Greatest Super Bowls of All Time. [...]
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28
Jan
Posted by Jake in Comedy, Law, Politics, The Drawing Board. Tagged: clock alarms, cruel and unusual punishment, herpes vaccination, legal supremacy, Michael Vick, racism, tampering, the death penalty, the white majority, YouTube. 2 Comments
There’s a new fad sweeping the nation, and for once I’m ahead of the curve. It’s called the death penalty, and it’s the reason you woke up this morning with your face intact. Where at one time an escaped serial killer would more than likely have murdered you in gruesome fashion while you slept, you’re [...]
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27
Jan
Posted by Josh in Hindsight 2010, Music. Tagged: albums, arcade fire, broken bells, Dan Bejar, hindsight 2010, music, Neko Case, new pornographers, omg, silver jenny dollar, songs, the high road, The Suburbs, together, usher. 9 Comments
Much of the music I listened to this year was not from 2010, but there were plenty of standout tracks from this year. Below are my top five songs and top three albums of 2010: Top Five Songs of 2010 5) “Deep Blue” — Arcade Fire It may be a simpler song than many of [...]
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27
Jan
Posted by John S in Hindsight 2010, Music. Tagged: arcade fire, Brian Burton, broken bells, Broken Social Scene, Brothers, cover art, Dance Yrself Clean, Danger Mouse, EXPO 86, hindsight 2010, Hurricane J, James Mercer, James Murphy, Kanye West, lack of punctuality, LCD Soundsystem, Love the Way you Lie, music of 2010, Next Girl, premature nostalgia, Runaway, Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), The Black Keys, The Hold Steady, The Mall & Misery, The Suburbs, This Is Happening, Vampire Weekend, Wolf Parade, World Sick, year end lists, Yeasayer. 1 Comment
I know what you’re thinking: “What the hell? Another Hindsight 2010 post? It’s January 27th!” Well, chill out, man, if you think it’s too late for a review then consider this incredibly premature nostalgia: Top Ten Songs of 2010 10. “Hurricane J” — The Hold Steady From an otherwise forgettable album, Craig Finn shows off [...]
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26
Jan
Posted by Jake in Comedy, Culture, Education, Language, This Day in Revisionist History. Tagged: john swan, native americans, reduplicatives, scalping, sloop-of-war, superficially comical content, the Battle of Seattle, USS Decatur, walla-walla, whimsicalities, william gilliam. Leave a Comment
January 26: “You know, putting aside for a moment the atrocities of battle, you have to admit we live in a pretty hilarious time!” – Lieutenant William Gilliam, as he led his troops against the Walla-Walla, at the Battle of Seattle. There are few things in history cooler than a sloop-of-war, and in the mid-nineteenth [...]
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24
Jan
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: a.j. daulerio, Advertising, auburn, Charlie Rose, david simon, deadspin, duke university, esquire, fox news, gabriel sherman, gq, kim clijisters, million dollars, murray hill, Reynolds Price, Ricky Gervais, roger ailes, the awl, The Office, The Wire, tom junod, wal-mart. 2 Comments
What we read while almost leading the Bears’ fourth-quarter comeback… NPI mourns the passing of writer and, for a lucky few of us, professor Reynolds Price. Price was an institution at our alma mater, someone who fought hard against the excesses of the University that have come to light all too often over the past [...]
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21
Jan
Posted by Tim in Sports, Unabated to the Quarterback. Tagged: aaron rodgers, ben roethlisberger's legacy, conference championships, historical comparisons, jay cutler, jets steelers, long digressions, nfl history, packers bears, prior to the snap, tecmo super bowl, the 2010 jets v. the 2007 giants, the nfl playoff system briefly analyzed, Unabated to the Quarterback. 4 Comments
After achieving what I perceived to be metaphysical perfection with my Week 9 Unabated to the Quarterback post on the Oakland Raiders, I decided to take the rest of the season off. But now that we’re down to the NFL’s Final Four, I’m back. And back. And back. Come on, I write 2,000 words weekly [...]
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21
Jan
Posted by Jake in Comedy, Culture, Politics, Social Norms, The Drawing Board. Tagged: 10 points for a rape joke, baby names, contrarianism, ethereal fusions, kinda hot, pseudo-anorexia, Sarah Palin, the red scare, the vice president, viable offspring, vice president. 2 Comments
What is everybody’s problem with this lady? I’m not saying I like her, but she’s kinda hot so I definitely don’t hate her. I mean, hey, if she’s been living in Alaska, no wonder we have global warming because she is hot! (Hot things raise the ambient temperature, which is symptomatic of global warming, if [...]
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19
Jan
Posted by Jake in Comedy, Culture, Education, Politics, This Day in Revisionist History, Uncategorized. Tagged: arthur zimmermann, badminton, Boardwalk Empire, brandy, chronic lumbago, curves in all the right places, full figures, impressive fake mustaches, kaiser wilhelm II, secretarial misconduct, telegram, venustiano carranza, women who routinely eat crackers in bed yet never risk getting kicked out, world war I. 1 Comment
January 19: “Wait, are you telling me you actually sent that? For God’s sake, woman—it was a joke!” – a hysterical Arthur Zimmermann to his secretary Gretchen, after learning that she had just sent a real telegram on its way to Mexico proposing an allied attack on the United States at the height of World [...]
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19
Jan
Posted by Tim in TV. Tagged: A, alison, aria, ashley marin, broken legs and webmd, comparisons to degrassi, emily, ezra fitz, Hamlet, hanna, hilton head island, ian, know your frenemies, logan howlett, mean girls and mean girls 2, melissa, mike montgomery, noel kahn, pam fields, pretty little liars, rick murray, southeastern geography, spencer, the american dream, the law of cosines, toby cavanaugh, virginity, wolverine. 5 Comments
Before we dive into another terrific episode of Pretty Little Liars—the best, I think, of Season One, Part Two—we have to address something upfront. Hanna Marin is apparently the teenage girl equivalent of Logan Howlett, a.k.a. Wolverine, with her truly miraculous recovery from her broken leg. Last we saw Hanna, she was struggling to navigate [...]
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