Monthly Archives: February 2008

Oscar Week: Call It

Oscar Week: Call It

Oscar® week. *grunt* Six Words. *grunt* It’s a beautiful landscape, but it’s No Country for Old Men. Belinkie FYI: He does mind riding bitch. Moral: Never bring wounded men water. Honestly, who uses the word “caliche?” This Oscar is really … Continued

Going to Brass

So, let’s talk about Howard Hawks’ The Thing From Another World, or rather THE THING, From Another World. (Thank you, Netflix!) In many ways, it’s a stupid movie. It’s based on Who Goes There, a smart and deeply horrifying (at … Continued

Best of the Blogs, Feb. 2008

Welcome back to “Best of the Blogs,” a feature dedicated to decreasing the amount of original content on Overthinking It. Today’s honoree is “Resurgence of the Soul Sample.” The story of how I came across this website is worth relating. … Continued

Oscar Week: Honest To Blog

Oscar Week: Honest To Blog

It’s Oscar® week, and we here at Overthinking It are celebrating with more six word summaries, this time of the Best Picture nominees. We start today with Juno. Stokes Cera and Bateman together again? Awesome! Sheely Teen Pregnancy? I like … Continued

Six Words or Less

The authors of Freakonomics posted on their NY Times Blog an invitation for readers to submit a six word motto for the US. Being industrious, the crew of Overthinking It individually submitted some suggestions, which were denied (!) by whoever … Continued