On The Oddball 80s Magic Of "Battle Of The Video Games"
@SpyMagician Please visit Brooklyn's Barcade, to satisfy all of your Asteroids, Qbert, Tron, Rampage, and Tapper-related needs.
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On Frozen Food Critic Disappointed By Garlic Dipping Sauce That Comes With Digiorno Pizza Dipping Strips, For Which He Had Surprisingly High Hopes
@davidwatts Also, no offense, but shouldn't the phrase "you're better off just making your own" not really come into a review of frozen food, because duh?
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On Frozen Food Critic Disappointed By Garlic Dipping Sauce That Comes With Digiorno Pizza Dipping Strips, For Which He Had Surprisingly High Hopes
There's a real disparity in quality between that opening sequence and the show which follows it, huh?
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On The Oddball 80s Magic Of "Battle Of The Video Games"
Starcade used to give away a portable record player as a prize, and it blew my fucking mind.
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On When and What Do Guys Think About Pants? An Investigation
Look, not to engage socially with an advertisement, and run the risk of having my comment included in a powerpoint presentation about "community engagement," but I actually think about pants all the time. i think an important part of growing and maturing as a fella is finding a way to wear non-jean pants in a way that does not make you look like an off-duty police officer or a building contractor. Find pants that match your style, buy those pants, wear them. Take them to a tailor, also. Pants are a big deal, man.
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On The Bodybuilder's Guide To Getting Rid Of "Computer Back"
I bought one of those $30 pull-up bars from a big-box retailer famous for their stylish ads, and as cheesy as I felt purchasing (and then WALKING HOME) with something that said "SUPER MUSCLES GET RIPPED!!!" on the box, it really actually works super well, in a variety of ways: I have yet to fall out of my doorframe and break my neck, and also my shoulders and back are in reasonably better shape. Just sayin!
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On The Coming Real Estate Disaster for White-People Brooklyn
Or, "Writer Justifies His Decision to Move Out of State."
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On 'The Hunger Games': Bloodless, Sexless and Not Very Hungry
I just don't know what the people who were disappointed in this movie expected? Like you thought it would be like WOW ZOMG and TOTALLY TRANSPORT YOU (which, btw, maybe it actually DID have this effect on the target demo of teens and tweens, but just did not succeed in making anyone over 25 feel 11, which, did you really honestly think that was even possible?)? It's just something basically okay to fill time between bouts of intense depression and despair. Which, hooray, thanks, pass the whiskey.
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On In Fabrication Uproars, At Least Everyone Agrees David Sedaris Is a Liar
@Choire Sicha There's a great part in Shattered Glass where one of Glass' co-workers at TNR is just in awe that his stories always turn out so interesting; that she can have a good, funny idea and look into it and come away not finding very much of interest, but he always comes away with a great story. And I think that's what's most frustrating about this Sedaris thing, or Daisey, at least from my point of view: that he fucking cheats. It takes a lot more skill (and work!) to write a funny, interesting story that is also 100% true than it does to pretend your story is true and then just make up some funny parts.
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On Black People Incoming! Miami Beach on Max Lockdown!
I am from south florida, and i still find this a little surprising. not that most people i grew up with weren't extremely racist in a way i didn't realize until many years later - like, you the color of someone's skin isn't necessarily germane to every story? - but, uh, this is insane.