April 2013
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What am I going to do with all these tiny...
I could spend hours fighting Pal. This baffles people, mostly because I have at least 6 feet and 240 pounds on my dog. But Pal required a lot of attention, sometimes it was pills, other times his teeth needed brushing. Yes, his teeth needed brushing. What Pal lacked in size and reach he gained in a psychological edge. When you know your opponent is worried about inadvertently snapping you in...
February 2013
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“I’ll get killed for this, but: Journalism ethics is nothing more than a measure...”
– Journalistic standards in reporting on the Te’o hoax: Q&A with Deadspin’s Tommy Craggs [National Sports Journalism Center]
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“After a brief conversation with the police, World Police put on his Cookie...”
– http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-74512676/
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“You can’t build a business off sexting,” said Mr. Spiegel, using the term for...”
– Inventor of SnapChat, daring the world to prove him wrong.
[ via NYT: “A Growing App Lets You See It, and Then You Don’t”]
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“Quite simply, I don’t know if these new showrunners (all good intentions aside)...”
– I had to talk Dennis off the ledge over at Brannigan’s Law. He has a case of The Fear over whether new Community (sans Dan Harmon) will be as good as old Community. (Check your local listings)
Remedial Game Theory: Community is back! And at least one of us is very, very quesy
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“Black-identifying names turned out to be much more likely than white-identifying...”
– To which Google responds: “AdWords does not conduct any racial profiling.”
“Racism is poisoning online ad delivery, says Harvard professor”
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“The Director’s Guild doesn’t get any money, the Writer’s Guild. Journalists...”
– Harvey Weinstein to Deadline.
And while we’re at it, let’s legislate the rain drops as they fall from the sky. Good luck with that, Harvey.
January 2013
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This calls for a zany scheme, brah: Watching the...
At around the 15 minute mark in the debut episode of A&E’s Southie Rules, I finally had to hit the pause on my DVR. For better or worse, and it would get worse, the show had reached a moment of perfect pitch.
Bros and Southie castmates Jonathan and Devin find themselves walking down the street, about to enter - wait for it - a store called “Vintage Southie.” Jonathan,...
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“Ben and Kate is my new Bent, which was my new Traffic Light, which was my new...”
– Meanwhile, over at Brannigan’s Law, Dennis and I go mushy about TV shows getting canned.
“I am trying to break your heart: How do you rebound from a cancelled TV show?”
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That time when the inauguration did not go as...
Four years ago I somehow ended up covering Obama’s first inauguration. The paper I was working at back then, The Portland Press Herald, decided to send down a quartet of journalists to cover the scene. That’s remarkable now for a couple of reasons, one, that a mid-sized newspaper could pony up the cash to send four people to cover the inauguration, and, two, that I was added as a...
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“Justified,” FX’s backwoods drama, has enough firearms to equip any militia....”
– [Trigger-Happy] via Pocket
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“SAN DIEGO WAS A SMALL TOWN, and the Williams house was a small box of wood, one...”
– [What do you think of Ted Williams now?] via Pocket
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“HULK HAS TALKED ON AND ON ABOUT HOW MUCH SOUND IS “THE ACTUAL VISCERAL...”
– OK, listen. This Hulk thing was fun for a while, but you gotta knock it off if you want me to read you. Please. Stop yelling.
[Film Crit Hulk Smash: HULK VS. TOM HOOPER AND ART OF CINEMATIC AFFECTATION]
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“It’s not unusual now for a movie to shrug off parts of its source material,...”
– Over at Brannigan’s Law, Dennis and I consider Brad Pitt, Max Brooks, and the zombies that brought them together.
December 2012
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“Majerus would order three double-brats, hold the bun, and a pitcher of Pepsi....”
– “Sheboygan native Rick Majerus fondly remembered”
November 2012
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Is it time to let Disney fill that Star Wars...
So, Dennis and I are doing some writing again. Grab a snack before you start reading this one…
dennisandjustin:
Justin: There was a brief moment after reading the news that the Walt Disney Company was acquiring LucasFilm that I thought to myself, “is this a hoax?” And for a minute I found myself looking for even the smallest trace that the press release I was reading on the Walt Disney...
Fans in Brooklyn Have New Shoulder to Cry On →
““I don’t want to take this parallel too far, but it was like an abusive relationship,” said James Graham, a Prospect Heights resident who renounced his Knicks fandom. “I got out.”
October 2012
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Watching "Arrow" - Is that a trick arrow in your...
OK, look, for some reason I can’t stop watching the CW show “Arrow”, so I figured I would try to make it worthwhile by writing up a few thoughts after each episode. Partially to see if I can do it, partially as therapy. So bear with me.
It’s clear Stephen Amell was hired for the star role in “Arrow” because he combined the sharp jawline and molded abs of an...
September 2012
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Note to self in margins of notebook: “She’s Jane Tennison and Leslie Knope playing Pokemon.” If I figure out what that means I’ll have a goddamn megahit on my hands.
August 2012
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June 2012
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May 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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“At his and his wife’s joint 70th birthday, they gave each of the 110...”
– Something about this cause indigestion in my brain. That’s a lot of money, and needless to say an insanely lavish party favor…but for a good cause.
- “Santorum’s Main Backer Plans to Keep on Funding” [WSJ]
December 2011
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Holiday Road: Looking for your car trip favorites
Want to know what Christmas means to me? A 24 + hour road trip to the Snowiest, friendliest, heart-clogging foodiest place on earth, and my ancestral home, Minnesota.
For a more than a few years now Amy and I have made it a habit - necessity (our dogs Pal & Turk) and saving money - of driving out to Minnesota for Christmas when we don’t go visit her family in Maine. And, for at least...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Thanks, Tumblr.
Thanks Tumblr. I thought we had this great relationship going on where I would find and post the kind of pop culture ephemera that passes by every day. And then I had to go and discover all these goddamn style blogs. In particular the mens style blogs, what with their handsome suits, exquisite ensambles, classic looks, master tailors and easily photographed confidence.
Now I’m convinced...
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“The setting had potential: a run-down diner in Brooklyn, which suggested the...”
– But seriously, he’s right. 2 Broke Girls, you had so much promise.
(Also, how awesome would it be to be a researcher & writer for the Paley Center?)
[Arthur Smith: Let’s Talk About Sex]
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“DC executives seemed surprised at the speed with which they had alienated some...”
– – NinjaZilla, a renowned and influential source in the publishing world.
[“In Battle of E-Readers, Booksellers Spurn Superheroes”]
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“But the experiences of mixed-race Americans can be vastly different. Many...”
– Or, in the case of a newspaper writing an outstanding ongoing series about the lives of mixed-raced people in America, using a word like “intermarriage” when writing about those families. On the spectrum of phrases used to describe marriage between two people of different races,...
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