Sheely and Wrather discuss The Sid and Maxxie/Anwar episodes of Skins, focusing on false autonomy, post-Soviet Russia, realist and transnational views of the international system, and child brides.
syncretic transnational hipsterati
Episode 96: Raw Ginger Tea
The Overthinker’s tackle M.I.A. and Romain-Gavras’ video for Born Free.
Episode 10: The End of Hipstery
The TFT podcast returns with more insight into Gossip Girl. Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather comfort you with visions of a transnational elite.
Episode 6: Experimental Noise Collective
Ryan Sheely and Matthw Wrather alienate and confound the listenership.
The Best Logo In The World [Think Tank]
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The Puzzling Logic of Conan O’Brien’s Super Bowl Ad
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…
The Immaculate Half-Century
Madonna turns 50 today. Enjoy Like a Prayer. 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*)…
i can has teh batmanz?
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…
We All Are Americans
[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…