Archive for the ‘pop culture’ Category
Television Poker Has Jumped the Shark
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Television poker has spread all over late night TV like an aggressive mold growth, and I realized recently that it’s leaped over the proverbial shark, several times. No great revelation there, but it really sunk home for me the other night when I surfed into a game where Phil Ivey was at the table eating [...]
Best Halloween Costume Ever
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Credit for spotting this goes to one of my friends on Facebook. I can’t remember who but you’re welcome to identify yourself.
I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreater—but what was in front of our open door—was another door! Like, a [...]
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Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and the Future of America
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Had a Red Robin Gourmet Burger and Now I Am Nostradumbass
So your immodest game writer went to Red Robin, the burger chain, the other night. While the experience is fresh in my mouth (why does that sound wrong?), I feel I must crack wise about what Red Robin gourmet burgers tell us about the future [...]
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All Star Game 2009
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The NL Didn’t Have to Lose the All Star Game in 2009
The All Star Game 2009 is over, and the NL lost again. Good thing the Astros (the team that unfortunately has my witless loyalty) aren’t going to the WS, because now I don’t have to be angry about losing the 2009 All-Star Game.
Wait, I’m [...]
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Need a Shot to the Kisser?
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Try the Pez gun. Great for parents who encourage their kids to engage in suicide- and execution-themed play. Click the gun for the full story at TopCultured.
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All That Twitters Is Not Gold
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God, I hate Twitter.
They say you either hate it or love it. I suppose it has its uses for deal-seekers (like myself) who enjoy the thrill of the hunt, in a Woot-Off kind of sense.
It’s South by Southwest here in Austin, TX, and the streets are filled with the usual LA transplants, here to share [...]
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Do good.
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Do Good Now
Do good while doing nothing? How about working on a cure for cancer while picking your nose? How many of you can do that? That’s what I’m doing today. I’m gonna do good while doing absolutely nothing.
Okay, to tell the truth, I’m going to do good by installing the World Community Grid applet. [...]
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ACL “Sound and the Jury” contest horrors
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ACL’s “Sound and the Jury” contest has started, and in a pretty marginal way.
The winner gets a slot at the ACL music festival – huge prestige. It could be a launching pad to great things for the right band. A band with talent. Too bad the bands who are currently winning are spectacularly weak. I’m [...]
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What happened to M. Night Shyamalan?
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What the heck happened, M. Night Shyamalan?
I just saw the ad for the new M. Night movie. It’s designed to look like some kind of andromeda strain movie.
“There appears to be an event happening,” a man intones. This, according to our statistics, is the blandest, most uninformative, passive-voice piece of advertising ever recorded in the [...]
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Napoleon Dynamite and other dance scene movies
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Time to break open the scope on this blog a bit and chat a bit about movies — not overtly fanboyish movies like Blade but movies in general.
You see, today I was speculating about a new subgenre of popular non-musicals. Outsider movies that feature a “big finish” dance scene. Specifically, Napoleon Dynamite and its lesser [...]
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