(There Will Be Spoilers) Christopher Nolan didn’t major in philosophy in college (or “read philosophy at University,” as the case may be), but he evidently has some familiarity with the subject. How do I know? Well, both of his two … Continued
“Da Game is to be told, not to be sold.” — Snoop Dogg, 14th Annual Conference on Hip Hop Securitization In 2003, I identified what I believed to be a speculative bubble for bling bling — the shine, the scrilla, … Continued
Hendrik Herzberg, who is some sort of editor at The New Yorker (though that shadowy cabal never ever publishes a masthead, so aside from Remnick, it’s kind of unclear what everyone does), and my very, very favorite political columnist in … Continued
I’m currently trying to come up with a plot that ties in every single summer movie this year. It’s tricky – there are a LOT of summer movies. While I’m cooking that up, here’s a similar mashup from last summer. … Continued
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Sean Tevis, who is running for State Rep in Kansas, had a brilliant idea to raise campaign funds: become viral on the Internet by doing an xkcd parody. And it’s funnier than xkcd has been recently, which is an added … Continued
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This one was inspired by the five Trapped in the Closet episodes all at once. I started thinking about other pieces of video that shared a soundtrack, and could potentially be synced up. So here you go – the closing … Continued
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There’s a mid-to-large sized kerfuffle brewing over Barry Blitt’s cover art for the latest New Yorker (at left). As you can see, it shows a caricature of Barack Obama exchanging a “terrorist fist jab” with his wife in the oval … Continued
The first episode of Joss Whedon’s writers’ strike project, Dr. Horrible, goes live on teh interwebz tomorrow. Since one whiff of any Joss Whedon project is enough to turn most of the OTI bloggers into snarling, prosthetic-foreheaded vampires, consider this … Continued
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So recently, I’ve been seeing a poster for Journey to the Center of the Earth every day on the way to work, and it’s making me uncomfortable. Check it out. She’s going to die, isn’t she? She is literally in … Continued
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The film composer Howard Shore has written an opera. It is an adaptation of one of the movies he did the music for. However, it’s probably not the one you’d expect/hope. Here’s a list of operatic movies Howard Shore has … Continued
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