Down With Fast Food Draft! Round 2 Down With Fast Food Draft! Round 2
Onward with Round 2 of Fast Food Restaurants we want to banish forever. E) Hardees/Carl’s Jr. The #4 fast food chain in the nation behind McD’s, BK, and Wendy’s, you want to talk about the obesity problem in America? Maybe try eliminating the restaurant that puts 8 strips of bacon...
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Down With Fast Food Draft! Round 1 Down With Fast Food Draft! Round 1
It’s been a while since we had a draft, and so here’s our draft of Fast Food Restaurants We’d Like To Banish from the Face of the Earth. Consider it a reverse “Favorite Fast Food Restaurants” draft. We also had three participants with everyone jumping in whenever they wanted...
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East Bound and Awesome East Bound and Awesome
Have you been watching Eastbound and Down? While not as rock solid as the premiere, the second episode was a good watch nonetheless, setting the tone for the rest of the initial batch of six episodes. Here’s the scenario: Former pitching phenom Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) gets a job teaching...
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The Joaquin Phoenix Chronicles: An Old Friend Returns On the Most Unlikeliest of Nights! The Joaquin Phoenix Chronicles: An Old Friend Returns On the Most Unlikeliest of Nights!
Hugh Jackman: [singing] HOW I LONG TO BEEEEE…PAAAAAART OF THIS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD [applause] THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT LADIES AND GENTS! Joaquin Phoenix: This is…[scratches beard]….fuckin’ whatever. [wanders backstage] Joaquin Phoenix: ……… [chewing...
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Save us, Ken Griffey Jr. Save us, Ken Griffey Jr.
Thousands lose their jobs every day. Banks fail. Osama bin Laden remains at large. Yet in the cruel darkness of night, a glimmer of hope. Ken Griffey Jr. is returning to the Seattle Mariners. When Ken Griffey Jr. last played for the Mariners, a nation was enamored with his youthful spirit and playful...
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JC in Real Life JC in Real Life
Earlier this week, the glorious Eugene Ahn, of People You Don’t Know, interviewed me for his podcast.  The topics range from Nilla Wafers to Reaganomics, the video game.  In between, we also discuss our love of video games, why every 15 year old on Xbox Live seems like a member of the Klan Youth...
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Sir Pratchett Sir Pratchett
Since I’ve talked up Terry Pratchett so much on this site (here and here and here), I think I’d be remiss not to note that he was freaking knighted by God’s Holy Vessel on Earth (take that Pope!), The Queen of freaking England. Go Terry, go Terry, go Terry.  What I learned from this...
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My Spirited Defense of Jimmy Fallon My Spirited Defense of Jimmy Fallon
For those who don’t know, tomorrow night is the end of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Alan Sepinwall has written a fantastic article taking a look back on the historic run of the tall, skinny, awkward red head that we all grew to love and call one of our own. In his place steps Jimmy...
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The Joaquin Phoenix Chronicles: Ripped from the Headlines! The Joaquin Phoenix Chronicles: Ripped from the Headlines!
HOW IT COULD HAVE GONE….. Casey Affleck: Alright, we got a lot of good footage today for your documentary, Joaquin. And look, your movie Two Lovers had a great weekend! You get the night off. Joaquin Phoenix: ….*mumbles* CA: Try to take it easy, okay? Don’t go too nuts tonight. JP:...
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FOOL by Christopher Moore FOOL by Christopher Moore
Dearest readers and adoring fans, In the wake of Valentine’s Weekend — much of which I spent playing WoW during the “Love Is In the Air” world event, passing around enough virtual cards to NPCs to actually get the Bag of Candies to drop the three times I needed so that I might...
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