“Green Day sold out years ago!” “Why are you even bothering?” “Punk is dead!” “I can’t believe you’ll write about this trite garbage instead of the new xx album.”* *”xx” could be referring to the actual band The xx or “xx” could just be a…
Full disclosure: I didn’t watch the Emmys. Well, that’s not entirely true. I watched the first third before I had to head into work. As a serious journalist, I feel compelled to share that. It’s ok though because the only thing more fruitless than analyzing…
Despite all my insistent, whiny and yes, accurate declarations that television consistently outshines movies, the Emmys are still somehow merely a shadow in the Oscar’s saturated hype machine. Giving more awards to “Flash Forward” than “The Wire” will do that. Still the nominees have been…
NOTE: This is a semi-regular series in which I pitch an idea for a sure-fire hit television show that I, myself, am too lazy to write. If you by chance happen to be an executive at HBO or FX then it’s all yours. Just be…
The Foo Fighters have suddenly become old white people’s latest erroneous answer to “what the kids are listening to nowadays,” after appearing at both the DNC and Apple’s iPhone 5 shindig. The whole thing has become a devastating equation of whiteness. Old white people think…
No one is ever happy to see the punter. When the punter takes the field, he might as well be wearing a white flag instead of a jersey. His mere presence is indicative of his team’s failure. Because of this the position of punter attracts…
I, like many other Internet users, was recently in dire need of a video of a cat doing something adorable. So I did a Google search, which led me to The Huffington Post for this entirely necessary video of a cat helping a mute child…
There are two conflicting needs we have from every piece of narrative art we witness. The first is that it offer a sense of realism. The other is that it provide us with a sense of something deeper whether it be emotional catharsis, cheap thrills…
“You’re not the man you’re pretending to be,” Maester Luwin. “You may be right but I’ve come too far to pretend to be anything else,” Theon Greyjoy Last week was the climax in Westeros, this week was the recovery…for the most part at least. Game…
One of the side benefits of TV’s continued renaissance is that more and more actors are opting for the small screen over the big one. As a direct result the general hotness of TV characters has risen about 64% just within the past decade (don’t…