Oh, no! My money!
A quick link from me to a new site I find quite hilarious. From the guy who brought you www.isitchristmas.com (another great site), I give you www.ohnomymoney.com. It updates automatically every day at 2 AM. Enjoy!
0 · Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Houston, we have a problem
At the best of times, there’s only one toilet on the International Space Station. As of last week, they’re down to zero. I am not making this up. The crewmembers have been reduced to collecting their leavings in plastic bags. … Continued
5 · Read More »
The God Paradox, or: Could Steve Jobs Make An iPhone So Awesome, He Himself Couldn’t Launch It?
I am a medium-rabid Apple fanboy, having started out on the Apple IIc (excuse me, //c) when I was a sperm. And, yes, I spent this morning reloading several liveblogs of Steve Jobs’s WWDC Keynote Address like a rat hitting … Continued
On the Beat With Retarded Policeman
[Overthinking It Magazine is the weekly feature where we give you articles you’ll like all the more since the sabbath gives you an extra minute to ponder them. It may not replace your Sunday morning tryst with the newspaper of … Continued
3 · Read More »
Best of the Blogs: The Harvard Classics Project
The Harvard Classics Project is a very Overthinking It-type enterprise, in that it combines high culture and pop culture. On the high culture side is The Harvard Classics. In the first decade of the 20th century, Harvard President Charles Eliot … Continued
7 · Read More »
Episode 9: Indy Movies
All Episodes Subscribe in iTunes Wrather is joined by Belinkie, Fenzel, Shechner, and Stokes to rate Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on a 5-whip scale. (Spoiler alert: The movie earns a “whip it”, but not a … Continued
Listen Now · Download · 11 · Show Notes »
A Sneak Peek Inside the Dream Factory
I recently had the pleasure of watching a play I had written go up as part of the New Works New Haven theatre festival, and sitting in the green room with the actors and techies before the show, I was … Continued
8 · Read More »
Episode 8: Iron Man
All Episodes Subscribe in iTunes Wrather, Stokes, Sheely, and Fenzel overthink summer blockbuster Iron Man. Download Episode 8 (AAC Format)
Listen Now · Download · 0 · Show Notes »
Balls Out: Great Naked Manfights of Cinematic History
Male nudity is one of the last great taboos in movieland. Oh sure, female nudity still raises eyebrows, but people think of The Piano as A) a surreal anti-patriarchal love story, and B) “that film where you see Harvey Keitel … Continued
7 · Read More »
The Nazgul = Epic Fail
At one point in The Return of the King, Gandalf tells Pippin: Sauron has yet to reveal his deadliest servant. The one who will lead Mordor’s armies in war. The one they say no living man can kill. The Witch … Continued