January 2011
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attentiondoozers:
New Fleet Foxes -...
“Here’s the truly shocking part about this N.F.L. season: Among women 18 to 49,...”
– Katie Baker, writing for the New York Times Magazine, tries to explain the appeal of Sunday Night Football amongst women. But the answer she gives - the “soap opera” quality to the league’s drama - seems to be lapsing back into the same gender-normed explanation that this statistic...
WatchBack in 1997, Patrick Stewart and a then-unknown Vincent Kartheiser starred in the film Masterminds. It was a forgettable Die Hard clone taking place in a prep school, and starring a rebellious teenager as John McClane.
In the intervening decade-and-some, Stewart’s string of post-Star Trek flops were forgotten (cases in point: Conspiracy Theory and Safe House) and he re-established himself...
Watchmustardseedtree:
such a good ending!
(I suppose you shouldn’t watch this if you haven’t seen the movie.)
No Country for Old Men has easily a half-dozen scenes that would have kicked any other movie from good to great, but this is my vote for the best.
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ClarissaDarling: On the Ruins of Detroit →
My girlfriend wrote an essay arguing for the aesthetic/moral value of Detroit ruins photography! It is a good essay and you should read it.
“Respondents do not even attempt to argue that the claim at issue in this case...”
– Supreme Court Justice Scalia, in page 3 of his concurrence in NASA v. Nelson, being Scalia. (background news article)
Dan Deacon - Slow with Horns/Run For Your Life
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“Part of the train-wreck fascination of NOW That’s What I Call Music! involves...”
– From the introduction to The Onion AV Club writer Nathan Rabin’s look back at NOW That’s What I Call Music! volume by volume.
