Jim Harbaugh vs. Urban Meyer isn’t another 10 Year War, sadly

Jim Harbaugh Urban Meyer

Jim Harbaugh and the 49ers parted ways last night, as expected; interestingly, he won exactly 49 games as their coach, including one NFC Championship. He’s now purportedly headed to Michigan, according to literally every report under the sun. He was… Continue Reading

Jennifer Lawrence’s e-mail, peanutbutt, should be a lesson to marketers

Jennifer Lawrence Hot

Jennifer Lawrence’s e-mail alias is apparently “peanutbutt.” If that’s true — it’s info from the Sony hacks — then it furthers America’s obsession with Jennifer Lawrence and how real / authentic she is (depending on whether you believe she really is). Think… Continue Reading

What if Blake Bortles rebounded from Lindsey Duke to Taylor Swift?

Taylor Swift Blake Bortles Lindsey Duke

If there’s anything I love to do with my free time, it’s harmless and hopeless speculation about people I’ll never meet and whether or not they had some kind of rendezvous at some point. I think that probably makes me… Continue Reading

YouTube 2014 belonged to Katy Perry and a mutant giant spider dog

Mutant Spider Dog

In some ways, on YouTube and Facebook, 2013 was the year of “The Harlem Shake.” Now we have some YouTube data from 2014, and the story is a smidge different. 

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What exactly is Michael Keaton’s Birdman about?

Birdman Movie

I saw Birdman last night, as part of a renewed focus in December on seeing movies that will likely get nominated for a slate of Oscars. It was good, and interesting, and you can argue that a handful of people in the… Continue Reading

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I wrote Mike Nichols a letter once. He wrote back. Kinda cool, no?

Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols passed away today, as you’ve probably heard. I don’t have a lot to contribute to this discourse because I’m not exactly a film buff or even a very good viewer of films — I saw most of the Twilight movies… Continue Reading

Holy hell, J.J. Abrams wrote Regarding Henry

JJ Abrams Regarding Henry

You can find some weird stuff trolling the Internet. Back when Breaking Bad was ending and I decided to Google around Vince Gilligan a bit more, I learned he was a writer for Hancock and Home Fries. (No joke.) 

Here’s a story about unnaturally long sex

Shared this on my associated Tumblr back in summer 2013, but felt like moving it over here too. This doesn’t involve me. It involves a friend of mine from the high school era. This is retold because, eh, why not… Continue Reading