posted by Matthew Wrather on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 3:32am
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather alienate and confound the listenership taking their calls, mocking them, and discussing the sociological implications of Gossip Girl and Glee.
posted by Think Tank on Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 7:37am
[Today, we step into the Think Tank, our steel cage match of ideas and friendly one-upsmanshp, to consider what is the best logo in the world. Read carefully all the entries and vote for your favorite at the end.]
Perich: The Red Cross
The Red Cross has the superior logo, out of everything in the world that does currently or could ever possibly use a logo, for the following reasons.
posted by sheely on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 10:08pm
One of the videos that made it into our Super Bowl ad roundup was the Conan O’Brien ad for Bud Light, in which his agent/manager/ambiguous guy in a suit convinces him to make an embarrassing Bud Light Ad by assuring him that it will “only be seen in Sweden”.
The message of this spot seems to be “Drink Bud Light because it is a beer for awesome-non-Eurotrash-American Dudes!” In the world of the commercial, the only way that the effete Swedes could be convinced to drink Bud Light is with fire, mesh tops, and cheesy techno. But does anyone really still hold this view of Europeans?
Madonna is the paragon a kind of pop music that I enjoy (only semi-ironically) far more, I imagine, than my fellow writers on the blog. But despite the many (younger and younger*) girls who have come after with aspirations to the crown, I think nobody has, like, a prayer of coming close. Why? My thoughts after the jump.
posted by Matthew Wrather on Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 6:44pm
We are pleased to open the LOLjoker contest. Send your LOLjokers to sheely AT overthinkingit DOT com before Midnight EDT on Sunday, August 3, 2008. To one grand prize winner we’ll give away a vintage batman t-shirt and a guest spot on our next podcast.
posted by sheely on Saturday, March 29th, 2008 at 9:07pm
[Beginning today, we will be saving our most thoughtfully overthought articles for Sunday publication. Though we haven't the audacity to hope that we will replace your ritual of lugging the phone-book sized Sunday Times down to your favorite obscure Park Slope coffee house to pore ostentatiously over while sipping the organic, shade grown, fairly traded red eye your favorite heavily tattooed and multi-pierced barista pulls with tender loving care, we hope this weekly day of rest affords you time to devote some extra overthinking to this new weekly feature, Overthinking It Magazine. —Ed.]
Even as McDonalds continues to evoke freedom fries francophobia in new advertisements, there are signs that the popular culture has moved on, and that we are on the brink of a new era in French-American relations. The ambassador of this détente? None other than a 25 year old female electro-hip-hopper named Yelle. Video and analysis after the jump.
Even as McDonalds continues to evoke