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In which I breathlessly and irrelevantly discuss Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell was profiled on 60 Minutes last night. My wife and I were trying to make dough at the time, and it needed about an hour to rise. I had just watched the obliteration of the Colts by the Cardinals, and 60… Continue Reading

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Lena Dunham be damned, because the ‘guys’ of ‘Girls’ are pretty interesting too

The trailer for Season 3 of Girls (which comes back January 12th) is on YouTube today / embedded above, and cultural responses have rolled in from all corners of the Internet: for example, The Wire — which used to be called The Atlantic Wire, but… Continue Reading

Mostly from a U.S. standpoint, what’s the biggest ‘where were you when…’ moment in history?

The 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination is tomorrow; I’m sure most of you potentially reading this knew that by now. I was watching Tom Brokaw on The Daily Show last night, and he made some good points regarding that moment in American… Continue Reading

Jennifer Lawrence is the past, the present, and the future of entertainment

Hunger Games: Catching Fire comes out tomorrow at midnight, so The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article today entitled “Lawrence is Hollywood’s modern everywoman,” referencing, of course, Jennifer Lawrence. She’s the star of those films (the first one made about $692 million worldwide, and was… Continue Reading

The world of infomercials is insanely interesting

I had insomnia for a while as a kid, so I spent some time watching infomercials. I didn’t really think about it a lot, but once in a while in my 20s I’d check out a few on YouTube, just… Continue Reading

So, “selfie” is the Oxford Word of the Year for 2013. Thanks, Australia.

Yes, that happened — and according to Oxford, the decision was “with little if any argument.” Oxford had it as a ‘word on the radar’ back in June 2012 (the Oxford Dictionaries blog is surprisingly pretty interesting), but as they themselves… Continue Reading

R. Kelly is probably deserving of a long-form New Yorker profile

The above clip is from last night’s Saturday Night Live; Lady Gaga was the host and musical guest, and she performed this jam “Do What U Want” from her new album (Artpop); the actual song features R. Kelly, who himself has… Continue Reading