Steelers and Steel: Sports Teams and Their Respective Commodities
Overthinking It salutes this year’s Super Bowl champions with some totally unnecessary Excel.
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Posts by Mark Lee on Overthinking It
The “Thriller” Musical: Not As Dumb of an Idea As You Think
“Thriller a Broadway musical?” That’s how the Associated Press derisively reported plans to adapt Michael Jackson’s classic song/music video to a Broadway musical. It goes downhill from there; it seems the haters have written this one off about as fast … Continued
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False Dichotomies in Music
Exploring the many logical fallacies of pop music lyrics
“Team America: World Police” in a Post-Bush World
Team America: World Police
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Obama-Man?
Look out, evil-doers: Spider-man swings to President Obama’s rescue in an upcoming Marvel comic book issue.
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George W. Bush: Going Out With a Whimper (on Google)
Overthinking It, and Google, bid farewell to President George W. Bush
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Marty McFly Did Not Invent Rock ‘n’ Roll [BTTF Week]
Nor did he give the song “Johnny B. Goode” to Chuck Berry. Let’s dispel this myth once and for all.
How to “Successfully” Assassinate a Dictator
A comparison of “Valkyrie” to a film about the “successful” assassination of Korean President Park Chung-Hee, “The President’s Last Bang.”
An Unlikely Source of Superhero Fan Fic
National Public Radio. This American Life, specifically. This radio show, made famous for its true-life storytelling on subjects ranging from building superintendents to summer camp, occasionally dabbles in the world of fiction. Very occasionally, they dabble in the world of … Continued
A Christmas Music Observation
What do Metallica, Radiohead, and Kanye West all have in common, besides their lack of Christmas music and the fact that they all take themselves too seriously?
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