Archive for February, 2011
28
Feb
Posted by NPI in NPI Comes Alive!, Sports, The Double Bonus. Tagged: Billy White, BYU Cougars, BYU-SDSU, Clark Kellogg, dick vitale, duke, duke blue devils, Duke-VT, jimmer fredette, Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Singler's disappointing season, Malcolm Delaney, Nolan Smith, NPI Comes Alive!, San Diego State, Seth Curry's worst game of the year, steve kerr, Steve Kerr is great, The Double Bonus. Leave a Comment
It’s episode two of the Double Bonus podcast! Listen as Tim and John S break down the weekend’s slate of games, and hear John S apologize for being so wrong. Click here for the podcast of a lifetime….
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28
Feb
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: Bob Dylan, Charlie Sheen, chris jones, classic rock, david foster wallace, DFW, DFW archives, donald glover, Donald Rumsfeld, facebook jamal ibrahim, Frank Lloyd wright, Infinite Jest, Louis C.K., muses, Natalie Portman, Oblivion, Pattie Boyd, Slate, son of bold venture, Suze Rotolo, the awl, The Foutainhead, The King's Speech, the Oscars. 1 Comment
What we read while Colin Firth managed to give a stutter-less acceptance speech… Natalie Portman won the Best Actress award last night, so it’s worth asking: Is Natalie Portman a good actress? Slate ran two stories that seem to say “no.” Slate also dished on The King’s Speech and stuttering. We know one Egyptian who [...]
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27
Feb
Posted by John S in Culture, Film. Tagged: "loud" performances, 127 Hours, 2011 Oscars, academy awards, Anne Hathaway, Black Swan, Christian Bale, David O. Russell, Inception, Inception was nominated for its SCREENPLAY?, James Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Michelle Williams, mila kunis, Natalie Portman, Oscar predictions, the Coen brothers, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Social Network, True Grit, Winter's Bone. 5 Comments
Although NPI officially endorses the new Oscar voting policy for the Best Picture award, one of the major downsides of expanding the category to 10 is that it makes it twice as hard to keep up. I have seen five of the films nominated for the Academy’s grand prize tonight; you’d think that would be [...]
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25
Feb
Posted by Jake in Comedy, Politics, Stuck in a Poor Equilibrium. Tagged: crowbars, health insurance, hotcakes, premiums, The Drawing Board, The Perfect Storm, twister. Leave a Comment
If there’s one thing people love to talk about, it’s health insurance. Go to any coffee shop in America and you’re bound to find at least one person who has health insurance. But what the insurance companies don’t want you to know is that, in all likelihood, many more than one person there has health [...]
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25
Feb
Posted by NPI in NPI Comes Alive!, Sports, The Double Bonus. Tagged: 2010-11 college basketball season, Blake Griffin shouldn't have won the dunk contest!, byu, Chandler Parsons, college basketball, duke, Final Four, florida, Javale McGee was robbed!, jimmer fredette, Jordan Hamilton, Marshon Brooks, Nolan Smith, Norris Cole, NPI, NPI branches, NPI network, Ohio State, Pitt, San Diego State, Seth Curry, texas, The Double Bonus. 1 Comment
Welcome to NPI Comes Alive! It’s the podcast branch of the NPI network. Our first edition brings back The Double Bonus, with Tim and John S finally breaking down this college basketball season. Click here to listen.
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22
Feb
Posted by John S in Culture, Music. Tagged: album reviews, Bloom, Codex, Give Up the Ghost, Hail to the Thief, kid a, Little By Little, Morning Bell, ok computer, Radiohead, the greatest band in the world, The King of Limbs, Thom Yorke, unconventional album releases, Videotape. 3 Comments
Your first reaction to the latest Radiohead album will be based almost entirely on what you expected from it. This is true to some extent for every album (and every movie, television show, novel, meal, etc.), but it’s particularly the case for Radiohead. The band has built a reputation as the most daring and innovative [...]
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22
Feb
Posted by Tim in TV. Tagged: ABC Family, aria montgomery, big monday, emily fields, ezra fitz, frat parties, greek, hanna marin, high school theater productions, ian, literary allusions, mona, nature v. nurture, pretty little liars, rats, rhoda penmark, spencer hastings, the bad seed, the secret life of the american teenager, william march. 1 Comment
With an especially boring slate of Big Monday games—has it ever been worse than this year, for some reason? The Big East and Big XII are good, but man, I can’t remember a good Big Monday game all season*—I had time to watch Pretty Little Liars at its regular hour this week. And even to [...]
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21
Feb
Posted by Tim in Culture, Politics, Vignettes. Tagged: abraham lincoln, albert fall, Andrew Jackson, calvin coolidge, george bush, henry clay, james buchanan, james knox polk, john adams, mexican-american war, nicholas biddle, presidents' day, presidents' day lottery, warren harding, william henry harrison, woodrow wilson, zachary taylor. Leave a Comment
: you know what bothers me? : womens basketball coaches’ inability to properly discern when to foul in the final minute of a close game? : besides that : the fact that president’s day is one holiday instead of being two like it should be? : YES kind of not quite but close : not [...]
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21
Feb
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley. Tagged: Album of the Year, arcade fire, colby donaldson, Curb Your Enthusiasm, duke, esquire, Grammys, Hannibal Buress, IBM, jared sullinger, Jeopardy, John Mulaney, joshua foer, Ken Jennings, lost wallets, memory, NBA Slam Dunk Competition, new york times magazine, our new computer overlords, Radiohead, snl, Sports Illustrated, supercompuer, the great gatsby video game, The King of Limbs, The Suburbs, Watson, who is Arcade Fire. 1 Comment
What we read while dunking over a 1992 Buick LeSabre… John S offered his thought on the appearance of IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy! but that was before the computer built its insurmountable lead over the petty humans. Ken Jennings described what it was like to play against Watson, while others wonder what comes next for [...]
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15
Feb
Posted by Tim in TV. Tagged: albert camus, american beauty, aria montgomery, ashley marin, caleb rivers, carson mccullers, catcher in the rye, cinematographic buzzwords, emily fields, french tutors, hanna marin, je suis un ami, leonard adams, milorad cavic, mrs. potter, nailing the jargon, paige mccullers, pam fields, pretty little liars, sara shepard, spencer hastings, the artful dodger and arthur dodger, the new normal, The Simpsons, tim duncan, toby cavanaugh, twin peaks, vanessa hudgens, william faulkner. 6 Comments
Does the reduced frequency of my Pretty Little Liars’ reviews reflect perhaps a taming of my zeal for the show or a latent unhappiness with the second half of the first season? I want to quell such worries now. Sure, the last few episodes — including the last two — have not been as transcendent [...]
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