Morgan @ January 5, 2009 # One Comment
Let me start by giving a big thank you to Victor and everyone else at PopTen. I am so super psyched to be able to contribute to such a great blog. As Victor noted in his welcome post, these mixes are usually made and sent out to friends via email, so there is some history [...]
victor @ January 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet
An epic welcome to our first guest blogger, the inimitable Morgan Holzer!
For nearly a year, I’ve been lucky enough to find myself on Morgan’s monthly mix email list. Once a month, Morgan condiments my inbox with a brand new music mix, culling all of the latest bands she’s heard (live or otherwise) into one meticulously-thought-out, [...]
hawkesklein @ January 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet
2009 stands before us as a beacon of movie-going hope! The future will be so grand! There are so many movies that I probably won’t see in theaters! “He’s just not that into you,” “Star Trek,” the list is endless, and I look forward to judging books by their covers for you guys in the [...]
JeremyKotin @ January 5, 2009 # One Comment
Year Begins: Things to look forward to…
1. STAGE 9 to 5 (April 2009)
Based on the 1980 femme centric revenge film comes a new musical with new songs composed by Dolly Parton to accompany her iconic title track. It’s that last bit of information about the composer that keeps me from grousing at the idea of [...]
victor @ January 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Words can’t express the shock I felt when I heard Numa Numa come on the radio, and Rihanna’s voice basically karaoking over the chorus.
Okay, fair enough, anything that is popular is fair game for adaptation- now more than ever. In these lean and meager times, the media only looks to success to breed success. [...]
victor @ December 31, 2008 # 3 Comments
Happy Holidays, folks. Wow, it’s been way too long. I’ve been amassing lists for the past week or so and writing some of my own. My Top Ten Albums of 2008 is almost done- that one always takes a while to sculpt, and is one of those annual labors of love. For now, here’s what [...]
chris @ December 30, 2008 # One Comment
New Years Eve may be one of the biggest party nights of the year, but let’s be honest here, there’s gonna be a lot of events where people will stand around, make small talk, sip a little alcohol, and wonder how in God’s name they’re going to find a lady to kiss at midnight. Personally, [...]
Jason Reynolds @ December 22, 2008 # One Comment
I was hype. Ecstatic. I mean, totally boosted to see the new Will Smith, Rosario Dawson movie, Seven Pounds. I watched Will on every talk show discussing how he couldn’t say ANYTHING about the movie, because one small slip, and the movie was spoiled. I watched Rosario discuss how when she read the script there [...]
JeremyKotin @ December 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Holiday Music Edition from a Christmas Lovin’ Jew
1. SONG “I Remember” Barbra Streisand
Not at all a Christmas classic, rather a song from a rarely seen Sondheim television musical called Evening Primrose, but thanks to a new little intro, the Christmas spirit is alive and well, altering all that follows. The song mixes the excitement of [...]
Juan Carlos @ December 19, 2008 # One Comment
10. Heavy Tees
They’ve got a few really nice designs overall. The competition was stiff, and these guys definitely made the cut.
hawkesklein @ December 17, 2008 # 2 Comments
Someone in my life mentioned that they’re going to look like David Bowie soon, so I googled and found this:
And created this:
Then discovered that really the scope of the “paint” program is limitless.
I feel like I finally get LOLCats
More DB’s after the jump! Leave your own!
victor @ December 17, 2008 # 3 Comments
As most PopTenners know, I’m a massive board game junkie. I pile games up in my closet and behind my couch, scour thrift stores for any I don’t yet own, and if there are more than two people at my house, I’ll try my damnedest to foist one on them.
I’ve spent a lifetime amongst [...]
chris @ December 16, 2008 # 11 Comments
Let me repeat.
Your boyfriend doesn’t care about what you ate today.
This is important. He may listen to you summarize the details of your daily gastronomical adventures. He may exclaim over your decision to go with arugula instead of baby spinach in your tossed salad. But he doesn’t care. You should accept this and talk about [...]
Jason Reynolds @ December 16, 2008 # One Comment
Okay, so one of my many obsessions is late night talk shows. Ever since I was a child, and my mother gave me this tiny black and white TV for my bedroom, I would sneak and stay up to see who was on Arsenio, Letterman, Leno, mostly because it was a free way to see [...]
chris @ December 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just in case there’s anyone out there who might be having regrets about electing Obama:
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Embedded video from CNN Video
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Isn’t it nice to have a little bit of competence in the White House?
And more importantly, does it bother you that 46% of the country thought this man should be in charge of our social security numbers [...]
victor @ December 15, 2008 # One Comment
We’ve all seen our share of bad viral marketing, but this will probably forever take the cake as the absolute worst viral marketing stunt EVER.
Did they hit all the check points? Let’s see…
- Cast two complete and utter tools - CHECK
- Use camera phones to underscore the fact that this isn’t at all sincere - [...]
MacGyver @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Back in the day, a pie in the face was the funniest thing known to man. Movie stars simply had to fall on their face over and over in new creative ways to make a fortune. With roots that go back to the beginning of comedy, slap stick is at the very foundation of funny. [...]
victor @ December 13, 2008 # 4 Comments
I’m sure most of you have read The Tipping Point or Blink, arguably the Harry Potter series for the over-twenty set. I started my Gladwellian voyage years ago with Blink, which was devoured mostly on a subway, and a few months later inhaled Tipping Point, mostly overlooking the Harlem Meer.
Both books delighted with their intellectual-beach-read [...]
hawkesklein @ December 12, 2008 # 2 Comments
Yesterday when I was looking up tv guide online to try to figure out how to watch the Bears beat the Saints and was thinking to myself whether it makes more sense to move to Chicago or pay for the NFL network, I noticed that AMC was showing “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” I [...]
Jason Griffin @ December 10, 2008 # 3 Comments
For those who may not know, the biggest art fair in North America is Miami Basel. This mega fair hosts 200 galleries, who set up shop in a convention style showroom for a small fee of $40,000. FUCK THAT! Because of this crazy fee, and because almost 1000 galleries worldwide fight for a [...]
Jason Reynolds @ December 9, 2008 # One Comment
Okay, so there is a phenomenon that for some reason has lived under the radar for decades. And at this very moment, I am sitting in the midst of it typing this post on my Blackberry, over what some people apparently consider a feast. Where am I, and what is this ghostly phenomenon? A food [...]
victor @ December 9, 2008 # 2 Comments
Generally people fall into two categories. Those who hate holiday music to the point of getting violent in department stores (Macguyver, I’m looking at you) and those who blast holiday music 24 hours a day from Black Friday to New Years, awash in a sickening display of festive euphoria. I fall into the latter category. [...]
victor @ December 6, 2008 # 2 Comments
Pogonotrophy. The cultivation of beards.
Pogonotomy. The trimming of beards.
We’ve had a complicated relationship with the rooty tangle sprouting from our chins. Life hasn’t always been easy for la barba, and society hasn’t always been forgiving of hair so far north of the equator.
Mankind has been ridding itself of beards since 100,000 BC. Archaeologists found that [...]
Juan Carlos @ December 5, 2008 # 2 Comments
Alright you just got on an airplane, and you need to make sure you maxmize your space. Everyone is out for themselves… it’s a lot like Nam. Here are some good rules of thumb to make your seat a little more comfortable.
10. Use shoes as cupholders.
That’s right. Instead of stuffing half filled cups into the [...]
victor @ December 5, 2008 # One Comment
One of the most beautiful love songs I’ve ever heard also makes me want to play Mario Kart.
This is undoubtedly proof of God.
This answers the question I’ve had for so long- what if Sufjan Stevens was a Nintendo-head?
MacGyver @ December 3, 2008 # 6 Comments
I had the recent pleasure of meeting Jack Black by chance while shopping at Bergdorf Goodman. He was really nice and let me take a picture with him. He even shook my hand, which is more than I can say about Donald Trump when he was my boss for a year This video is exactly [...]
victor @ December 3, 2008 # 2 Comments
A LOT has gone down since yesterday, in the marvelous world of science. And this is only the stuff I pick up from my Gmail Toolbar…
MEMORIES ARE STORED IN OUR DNA
Yes, this is as insane as at sounds. Scientists have often wondered how we store memories in the ever-dying protein synapse cells in our brain. [...]
hawkesklein @ December 3, 2008 # 4 Comments
Embedded video from CNN Video
I swear to all things holy if Jesus comes back in an ACOUSTIC GUITAR I will be SO disappointed I won’t know what to do with myself! I don’t know the exact rules but I want to see FIRE and RIVERS OF BLOOD and LOCUSTS and PLAGUES or whatever else was [...]
Jason Reynolds @ December 2, 2008 # 3 Comments
So a few days ago, I went to the local indie film theater to check out the latest craze (and by craze I mean no one at all knows, except for like ten people,) Slumdog Millionaire. And let me say…whoa. I mean, it was one of those times where I’m sitting in this uncomfortable theater, [...]
victor @ December 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
God, things sure have gotten speedier. Usually I come across something life-changing once a month. Yesterday- three things. It gave me the following insight about life:
Everything is different, but the same… things are more moderner than before… bigger, and yet smaller… it’s computers… San Dimas High School football- well, you know the rest.
Three new, amazing, [...]
hawkesklein @ December 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday Vanity Fair published an interview with Tina Fey online… and the world simultaneously exploded. Just about every blog I read wrote about the interview. The two most important things that have been gleaned and discussed over and over are a. Tina Fey was attacked by a crazy knife stranger as a kid and b. [...]
JeremyKotin @ December 1, 2008 # 3 Comments
1. ALBUM Day & Age The Killers
This is another excellent entry in the evolution of The Killers’ canon. Of course nothing is as catchy or anthemic as “Mr. Brightside,” but this CD has deeper roots than the pure electronic rock that dominated the previous two albums. Just listen to the opening aboriginal chant of “This [...]
victor @ November 28, 2008 # One Comment
I was hoping to devote Cocktail Crashers to the history of Black Friday, but it’s far less interesting than I thought. Instead, I figured I’d go back to my favorite past time- finding the bizarre etymology of words and phrases that seem slightly out of place, until you study their origin, and find that [...]
Juan Carlos @ November 28, 2008 # One Comment
I was watching a part of the Macy’s Day Parade yesterday. I saw something I had always wanted to see, and never knew I did. The Fred Hill Briefcase Drill Team. The group was created by Fred Hill for his suit store he opened a long time ago. Well since then the store closed, but [...]
hawkesklein @ November 28, 2008 # One Comment
Finally we can start listening to Christmas music again! Growing up we listening to Elivis and Willy Nelson’s Christmas albums and watching “White Christmas” and “Christmas Vacation” over and over! I just moved my 100+ Christmas song mix over to my ipod and I’m listening to it now!
I synched up my ipod with this video [...]
Matt Lambert @ November 27, 2008 # 5 Comments
You know what there’s not? A dearth of reviews of Chinese Democracy. Well first of all, the only review of Democracy that anyone really needs to read is Chuck Klosterman’s. Secondly, this isn’t really a review, it’s a Popten list. And thirdly, Guns N’ Roses has been my favorite band since I was eleven, which [...]
victor @ November 26, 2008 # 2 Comments
There’s nothing I love more than finding a passage in Shakespeare or Moby Dick that I’ve heard before in a hip hop song. What better proof that all ideas are recycled, translated for the current generation?
Dr. Dre? Quoting Moby Dick. Eminem? Quoting Chuang Tzu and Shakespeare. (Really, my theory is that Eminem and Dre travelled [...]
Jason Griffin @ November 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
No cavemen, I promise.
You have to click the link “Burger King Commercial” to view. Don’t miss that one!
Burger King Commercial
The rest after the Jump…
Jason Reynolds @ November 25, 2008 # 3 Comments
In a country where all the good ideas have been taken by all the awesome people in other countries, we’ve resorted to repetition. I mean really, who doesn’t like their parents clothes, or music, or drug habits? It’s pretty much the basis of this whole pop culture thing. I remember being in seventh grade, and [...]
victor @ November 24, 2008 # 6 Comments
As I was searching for a specific part of every M.A.S.K. cartoon that reminded me of Obama’s Economic Team Formation, I came across this video…
I had to post it, because it is so completely, unbelievably off. I’ve never even heard of half of these shows, and I was a cartoon junkie for that entire decade! [...]
hawkesklein @ November 24, 2008 # One Comment
I am so excited to see “Australia” I dream about Australian things. I wish I was kidding that Friday night I dreamed a kangaroo was attacking me and I was trying to tell Juan that kangaroos are mean and I need him to help, but Juan turned into an ostrich and ran away, but I’m [...]
JeremyKotin @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
1. THEATER Farragut North
The NY Times said this play was predictable but enjoyable. I agree with the latter, the former is a bunch of crap. While it didn’t exactly have me on the edge of my seat, thanks to a fantastic set of performances, this play about a presidential campaign went from good to fantastic. [...]
victor @ November 22, 2008 # 4 Comments
Kill your TV before it kills you.
According to the NY Times, happy people spend a lot of time socializing, reading newspapers, going to church, and doing a slew of other activities. But not watching a lot of TV.
Analyzing massive sets of data accumulated over thirty years and 45,000 Americans, scientists tested what activities happy [...]
victor @ November 21, 2008 # 2 Comments
I’m not going to front. I fucking LOVE Moby Dick. It’s probably my second favorite book (after East of Eden, of course). The trick is to skip the nautical chapters and stick to getting inebriated off the prose, starting with the second line of the book- the first might be the most famous, but the [...]
hawkesklein @ November 21, 2008 # One Comment
Right after the accident Questlove was able to send out an email / blog detailing the crash.
It’s long, but seriously enthralling. There are movie references to “Back to the Future” and “Spice World.” If he had discussed the null-g battle room in “Ender’s Game” I might have had to single handedly create “Pop Ten Blogawesome [...]
victor @ November 19, 2008 # 5 Comments
Lifehacker recently pointed to two UK lists of the top ten most irritating (and clichéd) phrases in use today.
But I feel like these lists are too UK-specific and also a bit too general. I feel like most of us buzzword-weary guys hear far more irritating phrases than these lukewarm ones.
I’ll list my ten (and Oxford [...]
hawkesklein @ November 18, 2008 # 5 Comments
Oh the old “movie out of a book” thing! As far as I can divulge from internet gossip and TV trailers “Twilight” is “Buffy” if you were born in the early 1990s. Complete with blue undertones and hair that’s way longer than any you have ever seen on an actual teenager. I’m already exhausted seeing [...]
Jason Reynolds @ November 18, 2008 # One Comment
You know, I don’t throw out the “G word” often because to me, most people who are called genius these days, just have moments of ingenious behavior. But few are actually geniuses! I know, I know, what makes me the authority on who is a genius and who isn’t?! The same thing that governs this [...]
victor @ November 18, 2008 # One Comment
If you’re itching to ROFLMAO, and you are one of the ten people on earth who doesn’t know about FAIL Blog (I ashamedly admit I was one of the ten until a few minutes ago)… This site had Chris, Juan and I ROFLMAOing all over Juan’s cement basement floor. 100% lollers.
FAIL Blog
If you tire of passive [...]
Jamie Antonisse @ November 16, 2008 # 3 Comments
Well, the city’s on fire again.
MacGyver @ November 15, 2008 # 3 Comments
I am trying to transition from being a raving angry liberal to a dumbstruck happy liberal. It is not an easy task, as I have to admit I had lost so much faith in this country that I was stealing my nerve to rebel if our man had lost. Thank goodness my faith in [...]
Juan Carlos @ November 14, 2008 # 2 Comments
You remember when Tom Cruise was in Minority Report? There in police HQ he had pretty much the most amazing screen for getting through information. He was pulling documents up from the ether, and we were all amazed at the possibilities. Well… the person who made that idea up has now begun the first step [...]
victor @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We’ve all heard of some pretty nutty, wildly unethical, and all around awesome-sounding psychological experiments. Most of us are familiar with the Stanford Prison Experiment, Little Albert and the infamous Milgram study (if not, click on ‘em!) BUT there are other, far more bizarre social experiments that were cooked up before all those pesky ethics [...]
Juan Carlos @ November 13, 2008 # 5 Comments
Alright so here is the really cool news. Victor and I have officially made it into the list of press bloggers. We’re now a few of the people who get to go to movie premieres, test out new board games & video games, and generally get fun stuff in the mail. We feel like minor [...]
hawkesklein @ November 12, 2008 # One Comment
I protested for the first time today! I walked down Broadway from the high 60s to Columbus Circle… I’m not by definition a protester, in the early 2000’s when people were blowing whistles and walking out of NYU classes to protest the war, I stayed back. I believe strongly that the way to change the [...]
Jamie Antonisse @ November 12, 2008 # 4 Comments
Ever since I first saw it creasing out jokes in Kotaku and Boing-Boing posts, I knew I had to make it mine. I had found the text formatting equivalent of a half-dried pencil eraser a soulmate.
Yes, I’m in love with completely in love with the strikethrough.
victor @ November 12, 2008 # 3 Comments
He did it, yes he did, yes we did, change, change, change- amen. There were tears in my eyes and an overwhelming sense of euphoria that stayed with me for days. And now that we’ve all accepted this Best News Ever, it’s time to turn our heads to the next issues at hand. The failing [...]
hawkesklein @ November 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Oh how I love thee! I love how you spell “apologize” “apologise!” I love how your busses apologise for being out of service! I love how you eat meat pies and have a condiment called “brown!” I love the British “Office!” Sure Michael Scott is funny, but he is clearly no David Brent! (Is anyone [...]
Andy Marino @ November 11, 2008 # 3 Comments
Last weekend I took a bus to Philadelphia and sat in a movie theater next to Popten’s Matt Lambert and Choice Grinds’ Mike Jada for 25 straight hours. The occasion? Exhumed Films’ annual 24-hour horrorfest (with added daylight-savings bonus hour). That’s 14 horror movies in a row, punctuated by trailers and a [...]
victor @ November 11, 2008 # 11 Comments
In the history of the universe, never will we have a better theme song. (Other superlatives The Never Ending Story scores- Best Line Delivery While Biting Into a Sandwich. ”No. Not too much.” Classic.)
You dare to disagree?
One-up me in the comments (or other PopTenners can just jump into this post and plop their favorite [...]
victor @ November 7, 2008 # 3 Comments
Let’s face it- the average male thinks of sex once every seven seconds (not really) and tries to steer conversations towards sex every third sentence. And what better way to segue from election talk to erection talk than through everyone’s favorite non sequiter: insect copulation?
Some facts about insect sex that will titillate, fascinate and outright [...]
victor @ November 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ah Sarah Palin- tabloid supernova.
Almost as fascinating as watching the Obama Campaign’s brilliant path to victory has been seeing this slow-motion train wreck unfurl. Has anyone skyrocketed to overnight fame faster than our favorite Alaskan moose hunter? Between August 28th & 29th the Google search for Sarah Palin must have gone from zero to [...]
Jason Reynolds @ November 4, 2008 # 2 Comments
If Mos Def Were President by GOOD Magazine
Awesome…
Shout out to Myisha Cherry of getsick.net for showing this to me!
Video after the jump! (just because it automatically plays in most browsers)
victor @ November 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Everyone knows that if Obama wins tomorrow, poverty will cease to exist, money will come flooding into the world economy, and we’ll all end up billionaires by the end of the week.
But if you’re wondering how to spend the next twelve hours frugally, New York Magazine is here to help!
Fantastic tips. Highlights include sleeping with [...]
victor @ October 31, 2008 # 5 Comments
This weekend on Cocktail Crashers, I’m giving you a powerful (and possibly insipid) little morsel to pass along to your dinner dates: the bizarre history of a few popular salads. I’ve already had a couple of people tell me they used my last bit of trivia successfully, though it was hard to steer conversation in [...]
chris @ October 30, 2008 # 2 Comments
Yup - six days until we know who the next President of the United States will be. Whether you’re just tuning in now, or if you’ve been following this thing like a sports junky, I thought it might be helpful to throw up a list of my top ten favorite political websites/blogs for use in [...]
Chivo @ October 29, 2008 # One Comment
In the words of esteemed thought leader L.L. Cool J, “Conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.” Amen, Cool James.
Like so many of us, I was past puberty when the internet began blossoming. My first email address came freshman year of college. Approximately twenty minutes after creating my Hotmail account, I was frantically [...]
Juan Carlos @ October 28, 2008 # 9 Comments
There are groups that will go down in history as perfect comic matchups. Broken Lizard… Tenacious D… The Kids in the Hall… Tim & Eric… the list goes on and on. One day I’ll make a top 10 for them too. However - today I wanted to focus the spotlight on The Lonely Island guys, [...]
hawkesklein @ October 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
According to Newsweek it looks like someone in the crowd gave her the scarf during an autograph signinging. Brilliant.
JeremyKotin @ October 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
1. PLAY A Man For All Seasons
It has been a long time since I’ve heard such a hush fall over an audience as I did a few nights ago when Frank Langella commanded the stage, delivering his final speech as Sir Thomas More before heading to his execution. This is a must-see incredible performance in [...]
victor @ October 24, 2008 # 4 Comments
Welcome to my new Friday column. The other day I was hanging out with PopTen regular Nick, and told him the story of Erik the Red naming Greenland- an epic marketing ploy. He replied, “Ooh, I’ll have to use that at a cocktail party.”
And it clicked. What’s more treasured in our ADD weblenium than a [...]
Juan Carlos @ October 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sometimes we all want to see an action star do something other than an action movie and it not be a kid comedy.
Kindergarten Cop - The Shwarzer
The Pacifier - Dieseline
The Game Plan - Rockefeller
Finally one man will do us proud. Finally we get exactly what we wanted for.
Jean Claude Van Damme went (as always) beyond [...]
victor @ October 22, 2008 # 2 Comments
Checking my Gmail this morning, an odd thing came up on my Google Web Clips above the Inbox. Filed under Yahoo’s Odd News (not the NY Times front page, somehow) it seems that dozens of UFO sightings have just been released at the National Archives in London. These are once top secret, covered-up-by-the-government sightings, made [...]
victor @ October 21, 2008 # 2 Comments
It’s mid-October, the sun is getting shy, and as they wind develops a nasty bite, so plummets the mood of all us Seasonal Affect Disorderlies. Today was bouts of sunny with periods of general despair.
Who can save my mood? Who else but my homeboy Sergey and his quaint little search engine.
I type “funniest joke of [...]
victor @ October 17, 2008 # One Comment
I’ve sat on this for way too long. If you haven’t caught Italian Spiderman yet, I’m jealous.
I know I’m one for hyperbole, but I’m 100% sure you’ll agree that this series is the greatest and best thing captured on film in the history of mankind.
Sit back, relax, have a glass of Chianti, and just take [...]
victor @ October 15, 2008 # 7 Comments
There’s an art and a science in choosing the proper books for your reign on the ivory throne. I’ve met many who don’t respect the science, and a few who are consummate masters at it. It’s a delicate and maddeningly specific art of curating/cultivating the perfect set of books. Uncle John tries to make it [...]
Jason Reynolds @ October 14, 2008 # One Comment
Okay, so I’m about to share something a bit more personal than usual. There are quite a few things in life that I really get a kick out of. An amazing song, an amazing book. Old people. Babies. Smart women. Smart men. Romantic Comedies, especially ones starring Diane Keaton, and guitars. Oh, and “gentlemen culture.” [...]
Juan Carlos @ October 14, 2008 # 2 Comments
There are job losses - we’re diving into a depression - as I wrote this days ago wall street was opening to a 400 point drop. Markets were crashing all around the world.
Just yesterday I came back home to see my Super installing a security system. His only words were, “You know - things are [...]
victor @ October 13, 2008 # 7 Comments
I’ve had this theory forever, but recently started sharing it with friends, and they agree:
Our core taste in music- the foundation upon which it is all built- happens somewhere during tenth grade.
chris @ October 13, 2008 # 2 Comments
So the economy kind of went to shit, huh? I guess we’ve been hearing about this for a while - but man - I did not expect anything like last week. Times are bad, and unfortunately, this whole thing is really complicated, which means politicians get to spin the hell out of it.
The Republicans are [...]
JeremyKotin @ October 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
1. ALBUM Hello…X Tristan Prettyman
Another excellent female singer/songwriter! I know, shocking for me, and you ask when will it stop, and I say NEVER! Her songs are catchy without being redundant; the sound has a bit of twang without digressing into coffee shop boredom. Her vocals smoky and intriguing, similar in tone to Sonya Kitchell [...]
chris @ October 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Awesome video courtesy of Andrew Sullivan - one of the most entertaining and intelligent bloggers around, even if I don’t always agree with him.
I’m sorry I didn’t post yesterday - I’ve been working all week on something about the financial crisis - it sort of got out of control… check back Monday, though, if you’ve [...]
Jamie Antonisse @ October 8, 2008 # One Comment
So after reading the post directly below, I had this sweet idea to do a Top Ten List for Mario Brothers games. I just had two criteria.
First, my list had to make some damn sense.
Second, I would not spend most of my list talking about my Feelings, or The Ladies. The Ladies, as we all [...]
victor @ October 8, 2008 # 4 Comments
The idea for this post came to me right before I nodded off last night… This morning when I remembered, I was nearly crippled by the sheer weight of my task. How to quantify so many amazing games? Have I truly played (and beaten) every major Mario release since Mario Bros?! [...]
victor @ October 7, 2008 # One Comment
A new survey by Break Media just found that 26% of men ages 18-34 would rather surf the web than have sex.
I’ll say it again- more than 1 out of 4 guys would rather watch the Numa Numa guy, write snarky comments on Gawker, update their friends on what they had for lunch on Twitter, [...]
Jamie Antonisse @ October 5, 2008 # One Comment
From HawkesKlien:
“Man I can’t lie right about now I’d give anything to watch 4543 more seasons of the West Wing… I would watch hours of uncut footage watching Josh Lyman just stroll around the White House getting coffee and sometimes answering the phone… what are the Bartlett’s doing in New Hampshire right about now? Watching [...]
chris @ October 2, 2008 # 5 Comments
12:01pm - Next day final thoughts
Alright, so I’m not very good at liveblogging political events.
Watching the debate and writing about it at the same time requires a hell of a lot of concentration. I have way more respect for sportswriters now, and I promise, I’ll try not to get angry again when I have to [...]
hawkesklein @ October 2, 2008 # One Comment
Lil Wayne had me at “cracked skull forehead tattoo, purple jeans and snug leather jacket.” (This year SNL has been epic, Space Olympics, Tina Fey, a cuuuuutie patootie pregnant Amy… Since I never listen to the radio because I hate DJs with all my heart and soul, the music on SNL this year has been [...]
victor @ October 1, 2008 # One Comment
The iPod makes for strange new listening habits. Gone are the restraints of listening to an entire album because you only have a couple of CDs in your backpack. But in giving us complete free reign over what we can listen to on walks, we’ve developed odd habits and in my case, surprising obsessions with [...]
Juan Carlos @ October 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This should have a million views. When I was a kid all I cared about was Turtle Power. I wanted to be Donatello. Which Turtle were you? Who did you prefer Bebop or Rocksteady? Were you a fan of the TV show first? Did you have the original figures that you could only get at [...]
hawkesklein @ September 30, 2008 # One Comment
It’s really hard to believe that the election is a little over a month away (not that we’re going to have a winner on Nov. 4th without a huge ruckus but still, a girl can dream). Personally I have a lot of unanswered questions, most of the answers I can find by visiting the candidates [...]
victor @ September 29, 2008 # One Comment
Well the autumn is upon is, and so is that nagging feeling that we are being pulled inexorably towards our deaths. Happy coming October!
Here to help you celebrate the ever-shorter days is a list of the most bizarre deaths recorded throughout history thanks to longtime listener, firsttime contributor, Wikipedia. A lot of deaths by laughter [...]
Juan Carlos @ September 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The first presidential debate is tonight. If you aren’t seeing it with people, you are missing out on rowdy crowds in the great democratic state of New York. If you want somewhere to go click here.
Or go to this url: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/09/get_your_debate_on.html
Personally, I will be at the Tank tonight on 87 Lafayette street at 8pm getting [...]
hawkesklein @ September 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
chris @ September 25, 2008 # One Comment
grabbed this off of Andrew Sullivan’s blog - amazing….
Juan Carlos @ September 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
BRAWL - Episode 1 : Twilight Ruin from There Will Be BRAWL
Victor found this so I can’t take the credit for it, but you will laugh, and you will fall in love. I guarantee those two things to be true.
victor @ September 24, 2008 # 2 Comments
Often I wish animals would learn to speak and become citizens, not because I want a monkey butler, or would dig having a bespectacled rhino as a boss, but because I’ve always wanted to see UFC: Animal Edition. Who would really win in a battle between a bear and a shark? What if you threw [...]
Jason Griffin @ September 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
@ Deitch Studios 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City (next to the water)
before you google this, and check out a bunch of images - go see it. be surprised.
victor @ September 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Aside from the excellent sausage, they have most most jaw-dropping movie posters! Though Eyes Wide Shut is my favorite visually, the ideas behind some of these (Fatal Attraction! Airplane Two! Lord of the Flies FTW!) are blowing up my brains.
Check out fifty superlative polish movie posters here… Favorites?