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In the next week or so Obama is going to be naming his Energy advisor-people for his administration. The current concensus/rumor is that Dr. Steven Chu, a physicist from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with a Nobel Prize under his belt, will be named Energy Secretary. This is an actual Buy, [...]

Why do you say “God Bless You” after someone sneezes? Or some other iteration of the phrase, possibly in another language? Do you even? Can you recall ever hoping that (whichever) God really does bless the person?
This is something that has bugged me (and others I’ve asked about) for a long time. It is my [...]

I’ve recently started reading Stereogum again. I used to and then just got lazy and overwhelmed by the amount of news that can come out of the genre of music.
In a recent article they talk about Jay Reatard visiting the AOL studios. I’ve never heard of him, but they painted him as ‘the next Kurt [...]

I was always a fan of mythical creatures…the thought that somewhere there’s the perfect mix of lion and eagle, or gorilla and shark, or a giant reptile…and they have POWERS. Lets take something horrifyingly scary and give it wings and lasers. Badass.
Unfortunately, most people know now through research that there really is no such thing [...]

This is an interesting movie review in that it is tailored to this website. By the nature of BODB, the review must either be a Buy or a Don’t Buy…no percentage or letter system. And I think that suits reviews better in general. No longer do you need to question seeing a movie that got [...]