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Don’t Buy: Not Knowing What Words Mean

John Mullin is a contributing sportswriter for SI.com, which means that in theory it is his job to understand statistics and the English language. But in the middle of his ranking of the NFL’s best QB-RB combos is this gem:
An offense 32nd in rushing average is just that: average. Even with [Peyton] Manning.
There are 32 [...]

Buy: Sherlock Holmes Trailer

I had no idea what to expect when I heard about this movie. The trailer reeks of Guy Ritchie and is definitely not the Sherlock Holmes I was expecting. I am somewhat pleased with that.
Downey Jr. looks silly yet badass but not British. Jude Law with a stache is fun but I could have sworn [...]

Don’t Buy: Graduating

So, apologies for the lack of posts. Half of us graduated/moved this week, which gives us a good excuse. The rest of them, I have no idea what they’re up to.

Buy: Timberlake

I’m not ashamed to admit it… I own both Justin Timberlake solo albums and I enjoy them.  Guilty pleasure I guess.
In case you don’t know he hosted SNL last Saturday and the results were expected. Very entertaining.
The obvious highlight is “mother lover.” He teams up with Samberg for a digital short that brings them back [...]

BODB: Gossip Girl Launched Music Careers?

It’s already fairly well-known that Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick in the real world) has a music “career“. But, he’s Chuck Bass and is allowed to do whatever he wants. And he’s secretly British.
But how about “Lil J” aka Taylor Momsen. She is in a band called Pretty Reckless (ugh). She sings. She’s also 16. I’m [...]

Don’t Buy: Josh Gad

I don’t watch The Daily Show very often, not because I don’t like it but because I just don’t think about it very much.  But now that I’m settling into the life of an Unemployed Recent College Graduate, and now that it’s raining every single damn day, I find myself with little to do but think [...]

Buy: Aziz Ansari’s ‘Randy’

Aziz Ansari is a comedic actor. You know him from “Human Giant” and “Parks and Recreation.” But like many comic actors, he also does stand-up comedy. His stand-up comedy is funny, as proven by this clip right here:

In the new Judd Apatow film Funny People, Ansari apparently plays ‘Randy,’ a Dane Cook-style terrible comedian who [...]

Buy: Arlen Specter

If the Senate Republican caucus was “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” Mitch McConnell would be The Brains, John Ensign would be The Looks and Arlen Specter would be The Wild Card.

Sometimes Specter is a hard-core Republican. He went at Anita Hill like a wild dog during Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court hearings and he was mixed [...]

Buy: The Coldplay Simulacrum

Somehow, the video for Coldplay’s “Life in Technicolor ii” escaped my notice until today:

Is it bad to find the puppet-Chris Martin more interesting than the real one?

Don’t Buy: Gawker

Julia and Sly sat outside the United Avalon theaters and asked Tammy to hold up her dress and shoes she bought for MORP. The name might have been backwards, to prevent middle schoolers from drinking, but everything else about Friday’s dance was definitely forwards: girls asking the guys to dance, new clothes, new weather, new [...]