How to Tell If You Read the ‘Game of Thrones’ Books
Did you know that the HBO series Game of Thrones is an adaption of George R.R. Martin’s book series titled A Song of Fire and Ice? Apparently a lot of people have read the books and are just watching the TV series as a fun little way to re-experience the… [Read More]
Things Opening Day Feels Like
Today is baseball’s opening day. It’s a Monday and in New York City the weekend’s clouds have cleared out, revealing a bright blue sky that is impossible not to talk about. Baseball is not America’s most popular sport anymore, but, if we accept that fact without defensively reminding people who… [Read More]
Artists With the Worst SEO Names
What’s in a name? Style, hometown, an ambiguous but artistic statement of purpose? Sure, those things are still important, but how about SEO? In 2014, artists have to consider how their stage/band name will show up on the internet. We’re all slaves to Google’s algorithms, which is why marketing people… [Read More]
A Rundown of Every Team That has Told You to “Fear the Beard”
Fans of sport are always looking for something to rally behind. A player’s quirk, a rally primate, a song — teams are eager to find a little gag that their fans can really get into. One such “gag” is facial hair. It seems like every year there is a fan base… [Read More]
What’s the Best Nelly Song?
As you may know by now, last weekend a Bay Area radio station played Hot in Herre by Nelly in a continuous loop. How did they decide which song? How did they decide which Nelly song? This got me thinking about which Nelly song is the best Nelly song. As… [Read More]
A Hockey Fan Answers Olympic Questions from a Non-Hockey Fan
On the eve of the first Men’s Olympic Hockey game, avid hockey fan, Andy Verderosa, answers questions from Aaron Weiss, someone who doesn’t really know hockey all that well but wants to engage in a once-every-four-years patriotic event. Aaron: Are there any teams to care about besides the US, Canada and Russia? Andy: Oh,… [Read More]
Everyone Needs to Back All the Way Off of Bob Costas’ Eyes
The worst part about having pink eye is not the discharge, the pain, the irritation, the having to put in eye drops, nor the word “gunk.” No, the worst part is going out into the world and watching as people recoil away from you like you’re some kind disease carrying… [Read More]
Trying to Remember That You Don’t Care About the Grammys
The Grammys were last night and, let me tell you, a lot of stuff happened. Fashion happened, spectacle happened, music happened a lot. Other not-so-expected stuff also happened, like gay marriages, but for the most part the Grammys played just like how you’d expect an award show which gives out… [Read More]
NFL Playoffs, Golden Globes, Downton, Girls: I Watched 11 Straight Hours of TV Yesterday
Yo, yesterday was a crazy day of TV. At 10:56pm the Golden Globes gave out its final award, Best Picture, to 12 Years a Slave, a great movie that I haven’t seen yet because my family didn’t want to watch something so heavy during the holidays. Like the movie itself,… [Read More]
Heartbreak Her
The tagline on the IMDB page for Spike Jonze’s beautiful new movie, Her, will probably read something about a man falling in love with his operating system. That’s correct, for all intents and purposes, but Her is more a story about heartbreak than it is a cultural exploration of the… [Read More]
