If you think your NYE is lame, you could always attend the Possum Drop in North Carolina

I was looking around for some weird New Year’s Eve traditions. There’s a handful of articles on this topic right now because Badoo just did a poll on the topic. No. 1 on their list was a tradition in Talca, Chile where… Continue Reading

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Would it be objectively possible to pick the best episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” ever?

The short answer to the title of this post is “Probably not,” although many have tried: here, here and here, for example. The reason I think it’d be a challenge isn’t necessarily that there’s so many great episodes — there are —… Continue Reading

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These Amazon Studios original shows — “Betas” and “Alpha House” — are actually pretty good, as is Amazon’s model

I’ve been devouring these two new shows on Amazon Prime Video, Betas and Alpha House. I say “devouring” but that’s probably not the right word — more on that in a second. Just quick backstory: Betas is about an app launch in… Continue Reading

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake might save SNL tonight

Fallon is hosting, and Timberlake — a five-time host himself — is the “musical guest.” It’s been an uneven season for Saturday Night Live (Kerry Washington episode was good, John Goodman episode was meh, and some episodes were entirely forgettable), but this… Continue Reading

Why isn’t Rian Johnson doing more TV?

Rian Johnson is a director/writer/editor. You may know him from Brick, The Brothers Bloom, or Looper, which are some of his main films (the latter, Looper, did pretty well at the box office). If you were a fan of TV in 2013, though, you… Continue Reading

Has Paul Feig become ‘the man’ in the comedy world?

It’s the end of the year, so a lot of those “best of” lists are coming out. When you get into film, you don’t often see comedy movies crack top 10 lists — but here, via The Atlantic Wire, we have The… Continue Reading

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The origins of NORAD’s Santa Tracker

Here’s the NORAD Santa Tracker. Don’t get too excited just yet — it doesn’t really fire up for about six days (only logical). It’s been around since 1955, and from ’55 to about 1996, it was primarily done via a telephone… Continue Reading

Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace should be pretty good (damn, I hope)

The Black List, which is an annual (since 2005) list of Hollywood’s best as-of-yet-unproduced screenplays, is now out. There are some good things from some big names — i.e. Leo DiCaprio producing a movie about the creator of Calvin and Hobbes… Continue Reading