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Another Entry in Sports Lunacy

January 9th, 2010 · No Comments

There are oh so many reasons why I should being tearing my hair out as a Wizards fan, but I’m not. Why? Because I’ve never been so invested in this team as to have really been happy had they one an NBA title.
Gilbert Arenas and his recent brilliant stroke of lunacy has had me more [...]

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Tags: Sports · TV · The Internet · Washington D.C. · Wit or lack thereof

Not a Top 10 of 2009

December 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Top Ten Lists are bullshit.
Here’s mine.
Best Movies (in no particular order):

Star Trek
District 9
Up
Inglorious Basterds
Avatar
The Hangover
Defiance
Zombieland
Partly Cloudy
Bruno
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Bad Movies I sat through (in the sake of fairness, let’s say they all suck equally):

Adventureland
Sex Drive
Bolt. Wait, that didn’t come out this year. Whatever.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Movies that I [...]

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Tags: Movies · Music · New Orleans · Rants · Sports · TV · Technology · The Internet · Wit or lack thereof

Celebrity deaths in a Web 2.0 world

June 25th, 2009 · 7 Comments

One use to measure a person’s worth by the amount of people that showed up to his funeral. Now it’s the number of tweets about them within an hour of their death.

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The glory of great cartoons and children’s stories

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments

I watch cartoons still. A lot. I saw Up, Wall-E (twice) and loved Kung-Fu Panda so much I bought it on DVD. I still watch it ever now and again. As a kid, I watched nothing but cartoons (thank you early Cartoon Network). I loved every one of them. Every Hanna-Barbara, every Merry Melodies and [...]

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Tags: Books · Movies · Rants · TV · Wit or lack thereof

The internet can quickly kill what was probably just an OK joke.

June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Watching the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Hulu, I saw an ad for Goodwill Industries of America. It showed a pink flamingo; pink, fuzzy dice; a pair of legs wearing pink heels and pink-and-black striped socks. The tag-line at the end prompts viewers to “Free your stuff” and donate. I couldn’t find a clip [...]

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Tags: TV · The Internet · Wit or lack thereof

Why so much hate for “Sit Down and Shut Up”?

May 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

So this may be a strange first real post, but it’s not like anyone’s reading this, so it’s rather fitting. No one is watching or seems to even like the new Michal Hurwitz sitcom, “Sit Down and Shut Up”, and I have no idea why.
Let’s put it simply: this show is fucking brilliant. I don’t [...]

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Tags: Rants · TV