A Funny Thing Happened at Staples Center: WWE Wrestling vs. NBA Basketball
An uncertain or a scripted victory… which do sports fans prefer?
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Posts by Guest Writer on Overthinking It
A Brief History of Time Travel: Star Trek Edition
In his Star Trek reboot, JJ Abrams decided to use one of Star Trek’s most-controversial plot devices, and creates a predictably paradoxical result.
The Parallel Oedipal Universes of JJ Abrams
JJ Abrams does not want to have sex with his mother… In this universe.
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Cartesian Dualism in Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl”
It’s taken scientists and philosophers centuries to beat back Cartesian dualism; then Rick Springfield comes along and undes all that good work.
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Paper or Plastic, Mr. Updike?
Guest writer Trevor Siegler offers a personal appreciation of literary giant John Updike, who died Tuesday.
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How Time Travel Works (and doesn’t) in Back To The Future [BTTF Week]
Three movies, four theories of time travel.
6 Christmas Songs That Don’t Suck
There are some holiday tunes that rise above the pack in a season where it seems like Satan has his iPod set to Shuffle.
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Use The Force, Mr. Miyagi
[Karate Kid Week continues with another–more lighthearted–look at Mr. Miyagi, this one from guest writer Trevor Seigler. Let us know what you think in the comments; our guest writers are perpetually entered in the All-Valley Blogging Tournament of your approval … Continued
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Quantifying Solace
[More guest post goodness today, this time from John Perich. Let us know what you think in the comments!] Quantum of Solace, last weekend’s highest grossing movie in America, was originally a short story, and is one of the few … Continued
Wilford Brimley: America’s Grandpa, or Secret Alien Killer?
How one horror movie ruined the Quaker Oats spokesman forever.
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