Watching Multiple Seasons of ‘American Horror Story’ at Once
American Horror Story is actually pretty good. Co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have managed to do what horror movie directors haven’t done for at least the last decade: develop a project that puts good acting and character development first. There’s plenty of “jumpy” moments involved, but the show finds… [Read More]
I LOVE #SELFIE CULTURE
Oxford Dictionary named “selfie” the Word of the Year and I love it. Selfie, or a picture you’ve taken of yourself, was used 17,000% more than it was used last year. Among other words added this year are twerk, jorts, FOMO, and bitcoin. However, selfie rises above as most indicative… [Read More]
Making a Case for Bitstrips (sort of)
Writing a Facebook status used to be just that. You’d write something down to share with your friends. Times have changed. Now we tag our friends in statuses by adding their @name inline or even by letting the whole world know we are quite literally “- with Steve.” The latest… [Read More]
Fantasy Football Anger Management
Many sports fans are of the opinion that in the fall months, Sunday exists as the simultaneously best and worst day of the week. On the one hand, there’s football: beer, friends, fantasy teams, food, sloth, and watching grown men pummel the shit out of each other. On the other,… [Read More]
Larry David Loves Basketball
Today, a brilliant picture of Larry David at Sunday’s Knicks-Spurs games made its rounds on the world wide web. In it, not only is he sporting a classic apathetic Larry David look, but he’s featured with a great supporting cast. From left to right: Nelly, Anthony Anderson, cute random girl,… [Read More]
Try Again, YouTube Music Awards
YouTube streamed its first ever awards show on Sunday afternoon and it received negative backlash from the 10 people who actually watched the whole thing — and for good reason. Hosted by Jason Schwartzman and Reggie Watts, the first ever YTMAs was advertised as “unscripted so anything can happen!” but… [Read More]
Weekend Box Office Round-Up, 10/28
Here’s the box office round-up for the weekend of 10/25-10/27. JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA opened to 32.1 million (avg. 9,537). It performed like Jackass Number Two which opened to 29.0 million in 2006. I’ve never been a major Johnny Knoxville fan but clearly there are tons of them out there…. [Read More]
A Confederation of Kanyes
There are countless ways to talk about Kanye West in 2013. There’s egoism, the bravado, the fashion. You can talk about the music, the “rants” or Kim Kardashian. Kanye isn’t a sentence, he’s a conversation. But no matter how the conversation starts, whether it be Kim, Taylor or Jimmy, it… [Read More]
Weekend Box Office Round-Up, 10/21
*Budget dollars set in millions Here’s the Box Office Round-Up for the weekend of 10/18-10/20: GRAVITY was the #1 movie for the third weekend in a row, and it fell a small 31% to $30 million. This brings its seventeen day total to $169.5. Seemingly, this movie has broken into… [Read More]
Pondering the Trailer for Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Today the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, was released. Based on its content, the three words best suited to describe what Anderson’s latest is likely to be are “playful,” “precise,” and “peculiar.” In what should come as no coincidence, these are also the best… [Read More]
