November 2010
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"In Defense of Back to the Future, Part II"- Matt... →
“‘Back to the Future Part II’ is one of the best sequels ever made about sequels. The movie has a poor reputation amongst those who see it as a pale imitation of the original film. What those critics fail to realize is that the film itself acknowledges that inferiority, and the inherent inferiority of all sequels, within its rather brilliant construction. It’s a...
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"The Dazzling Vision of S. Neil Fujita"- Sean... →
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"Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up... →
“And Waka Flocka Flame appears to be of mixed opinion on the song. ‘That they used it to be so sarcastic, it was almost a form of disrespect,’ he said. He shared it on Twitter, though only to ‘let other people see how ignorant other people can be,’ he asserted, not wholly convincingly. His manager, Debra Antney (who is also his mother), said she called up the...
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M83- “Car Chase Terror!” From their...
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Can People Stop Saying, "Where'd You Get It?"
Occasionally, someone will compliment me on an article of clothing I’m wearing. Perhaps this same exchange has happened to you: “I love your shirt.” “Thank you. That’s sweet of you to say.” (That’s always my response. Be a gentleman and throw that compliment right back. The word “sweet” is key too. It’s disarming.) “Where’d...
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"Bitch, I'm Telling You the Truth: Showgirls,... →
Second best sentence: “The unsettlingly explicit scene that follows involves people watching other people do private things, or as we say in the liberal arts, it involves several male and female ‘gazes’—including man-on-woman, woman-on-woman-on-man, and at one point, as James secretly watches Cristal watch Zack watch Nomi watch Cristal, ...
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"Copy-Editing the Culture: The Rise and Fall of... →
“Not only did the new movie seem a hash of previous Woody Allen themes; it was called You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Tall and dark ought to be coordinate modifiers, separated by a comma: They both describe, equally and independently, the state of the stranger. The title, as Allen wrote it, instead suggests a hierarchy: a stranger who is chiefly and crucially dark and only secondarily...
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Hole- “Violet” From their album Live...
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"Christina Hendricks on an Endless Loop: The... →
“There is an appealing economy to these GIFs. They get to the point instantaneously, and at the exact moment when one feels the impulse to rewind and watch the climax again, the loop restarts right where it should. In the two minutes it might take me to load a viral video and watch it in full, I can watch the money shots of 15 different viral videos. Yes, we’re talking about...
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross- “Pieces Form...
"Is It Possible to Sell Out in 2010"- Zach Baron-... →
“We can mourn the apolitical bent of modern pop music, whether indie or not. We can decry the influence massive conglomerates like Converse and Mountain Dew have gained in the music scene since the industry basically fell apart. But to do so, we must also acknowledge who is at fault: consumers, for not supporting the artists and leaving a breach for Converse to rush into; ourselves, for...
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"Original Pitch for 'The Wire'"- David Simon-... →
“The Wire is a drama that offers multiple meanings and arguments. It will be, in the strictest sense, a police procedural set in the drug culture of an American rust-belt city, a cops-and-players story that exists within the same vernacular as other television fare. But as with the best HBO series, The Wire will be far more than a cop show, and to the extent that it breaks new ground, it...
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House of Pain- “Jump Around” From...
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"Watch Andy Kaufman Be Alive" →
How about every Andy Kaufman video on YouTube in chronological order? Is that something that would interest you?
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"Election: Nice Guys Finish Last"- Brianna Ashby-... →
Thank God Tracy Flick missed the cut on The 25 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years. I wouldn’t have been able to top this.
(Hey, remember when I used to write well?)
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