December 2010
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The Essential Weirdness of Christmas Music
If you listen to Trans-Siberian Orchestra, you are probably part of the problem. Their music is like going to a Restoration Hardware and saying, “Hello, I would like one (1) unit of dad-safe metal, please.” This is exactly the music you would hear in the background of a violently stupid FPS when you entered “The Christmas Level.” I would pay heavyweight boxing pay-per-view...
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A visibly emotionally wrought Hitler promises in...
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Cool thing about watching torture in movies now:...
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Shameful-ass white man gets punked by the Knight...
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So Help Me, God, If 'The Walking Dead' Gets...
I have a very concrete idea of what I shall do. I shall renounce television. My glove cast off, left behind. A narrow and dark hallway, my single missive on the dusty ground—its thumb and four white silk fingers bent underneath it, the middle finger extended, pointing at those who are in error. J’accuse!
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I PURPOSELY ARRAYED THE ORNAMENTS ON MY CHRISTMAS...
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Watching NFL Gameday is awesome, because I keep...
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In what isn't really even a surprise anymore, TJ,...
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As a term, "Dad Rock" is conceptual bullshit.
It’s the ultimate in condemnatory shorthand for music ostensibly appealing to those who are unserious about challenging their tastes and horizons, music whose appeal is as much based on prospective listeners knuckling under to critical/commercial legacy and processed nostalgia as it is on their discovering art that speaks to them. Pillorying that sort of decision-making and horizon-defining...
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Being a girl is wasted on girls. If I were a girl,...
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I was already walking into the post office in a...
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Every original series on USA is like something...
As soon as you think about it, you wonder why you thought it was cool..
Take Monk. That show was on the air for almost a decade. It was kinda amusing as it was happening. But tell somebody, “Hey, you gotta pick just one to go in the time capsule,” and they’d be screwed, because they’re all the same and they might as well put the pilot in there and say fuck it and go get a...
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I'm afraid I have RBS, Restless Bowel Syndrome....
