Archive for April, 2010

Priced at $9.99 this app may seem expensive but Football Manager Handheld 2010 is basically like having Championship Manager 2001/2002, 2004/2005, 2006-2007 (the dvd version!) with updated rosters, on your phone. What other app can give you the thrill of taking a team from the third division of a European backwater league to the...
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Trying to explain (or, for that matter, even succinctly summarize) the myriad reasons why The Wire—one of the most, if not simply THE Most, critically lauded and acclaimed TV series in the history of, well, TV—is so damned richly deserving of every, single last comma and syllable ever committed to said veritable mountain of...
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Oh, man. I can't wait to have sex again some day.
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A song so beautiful I want to swim in it. They’re what Morrissey was too depressed to do and Coldplay is too untalented to do. Listen here: “Bloodbuzz Ohio” by The National Stream the entire album at NYT.
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Remember when Jack Bauer was a character, not just a guy who sprinted from set to set, explaining situations to people?  I used to wonder what the fall of “24” would like; how something so entirely, 100% bad-ass could become a waterfall of bullshit, plucking recycled plots and characters out of thin air and throwing...
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I am bold.
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Dude eternally wearing a plain white T?  Cut. Its the age-old conundrum. Your torso’s not attractive enough for you to be taking your shirt off all the time, but if you don’t do it more often, you’re left with being a pasty white ghost all summer.  The “purposeful bedhead” and communications degree is telling...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire, the first two books of a trilogy (the third coming out on May 25th and available now for pre-order) and really much more of a character study than your ordinary crime novels and proof that crime novels can be literature in...
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Oh, thank you so much, truck driver with a heart of gold who is always looking for “better routes” to save energy costs and bring the savings back to us, the customers.  This would all be so much more honorable and heartwarming if I hadn’t seen you on a Wrangler Jeans commercial 20 minutes...
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What started as a gritty look at an old school, bullseye-shootin’, catch phrase-spoutin’ sheriff taking on the white supremacists, drug runners, and other twisted shit going down in the bowels of Nashville has turned into a villain-of-the-week “Walker, Texas Ranger” with the missing character depth to prove it.  And there’s not even any roundhouse...
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