I’m scanning old yearbook photos for our upcoming 20-year high school reunion. This is me. Noteworthy: 1) Serious senior pose. 2) Sweet 1992-era mullet.
9 Thumbs (Episode 10)
The 9 “likes” featured in this episode:
“Swamp People” on the History Channel
Joshua Ferris’ Then We Came to the End
Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces, by Alex Maclean
Newsweek’s “My Favorite Mistake” feature
It’s on the Grid, the screenwriting website
Mike Sacks’ Photos of TV blog
“Radio,” the new Sixpence None the Richer single
Temple Run for iPhone/iPod/iPad
The animated short film Logorama
Other items of note:
Spanx founder Sara Blakely’s favorite mistake
Corrections:
Jason erroneously stated that Tina Brown bought Newsweek. Actually the billionaire Sidney Harman bought Newsweek in August 2010 from The Washington Post Co. (reportedly, he paid only $1). In November 2010, Newsweek merged with Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast and she became editor of both publications. He is only mildly chagrined by this error.
This week’s “Question of the Week”:
Have you ever written anything under a pseudonym?
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9 Thumbs (Episode 9)
With Matthew Paul Turner out for the week, we’re joined in this episode by special guest Rachel Held Evans.
The 9 “likes” featured in this episode:
The New York Times graphics blog ChartsnThings
Where the Wild Things Are (the film)
Season 4 of “Parks and Recreation”
The soundtrack to the film Last of the Mohicans
Imagine: How Creativity Works, by Jonah Lehrer
Micha Boyett’s “Mama:Monk” blog
The upcoming book Flannery O’Connor: The Cartoons and this Paris Review article
The Procter & Gamble “Thanks Mum” ad
Other items of note:
Michael Hyatt’s blog (to be read in the chirpily optimistic voice of Rob Lowe’s “Parks & Rec” character)
This week’s “Question of the Week”:
What was the first movie you remember seeing in a theater?
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This is so awesome. The world would be a better place if all sleeping children could be awakened in time to air-drum Nirvana.
9 Thumbs (Episode 8)
The 9 “likes” featured in this episode:
Midnight Movie Premieres
The twitter feed “Text-Only Instagram” (@textinstagram)
The Showtime series “The Borgias”
The travel app iExit
The iPhone app Cinema FX for Video
The pop culture site AV Club
Trace Bundy’s new CD/DVD set “The Elephant King”
The Mental Floss article “11 Early Scathing Reviews of Works Now Considered Masterpieces”
The PS22 Chorus Videos on YouTube
Other items of note:
Carrie Underwood’s new album, Blown Away
Battleship (The Movie, though the game is good, too)
Ulysses, by James Joyce (though none of us can truthfully recommend it)
This week’s “Question of the Week”:
What summer movies are you already “liking” in advance? (submitted by Justin Sean Claypool on Facebook)
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As a child of the 1980s, I spent my teenage years fascinated with the street and pop art of Keith Haring. In fact, the first piece of wall art my wife and I bought together after getting married in 1994 was a Keith Haring poster (a framed reproduction of an image from the Grace Chapel AIDS altarpiece).
Haring died on February 16, 1990, of complications from AIDS. He would have been 54 today. Read more about his life.
9 Thumbs (Episode 7)
The 9 “likes” featured in this episode:
Singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke
A River Runs Through It author Norman Maclean’s “Letter of Note”
The series Lost (perhaps you’ve heard of it)
The Snow Patrol Song “New York”
Chuck Klosterman’s “Tomorrow Rarely Knows” time-travel essay from Eating the Dinosaur
The independent film Absentia
The Tumblr “Theology Ryan Gosling”
Slo-mo exploding stuff from the Danish show “Dumt & Farligt”
Other items of note:
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
This week’s “Question of the Week”:
What’s your favorite first or last line of a novel?
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Beautiful and inspiring. What amazes me is that the culture that created the Kardashians can also create something like this. Human engineering is to be marveled at.
9 Thumbs (Episode 6)
The 9 “likes” featured in this episode:
The BBC documentary Wild China
The online productivity site If This Then That (ifttt.com)
Don Miller’s blog post about the opening weekend of Blue Like Jazz
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
The series “Castle” on ABC
Buzzfeed’s “50 People You Wish You Knew in Real Life”
Trader Joe’s Fruit Frenzy Bars
The search app/project “Cultural Differences”
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Other items of note:
The documentary Planet Earth
Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation
Blue Like Jazz, the book
This week’s “Question of the Week,” submitted on Facebook by Chaundra Anderson:
What is your favorite blog?
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9 Thumbs (Episode 5)
The 9 “likes” featured in this episode:
The Voice Bible translation
Title to Live HD for iPad
Matt Groening’s interview in Smithsonian Magazine
The Fast Camera iPhone app
The blog Flux Machine
Scrivener writing app
The blog Ugly Renaissance Babies
“Pillows and Blankets,” Community’s Ken Burns parody
The parody trailer for Titanic Super 3D
Other items of note:
The actual non-parody movie Titanic
Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Corrections:
The Simpsons is the longest-running primetime scripted series in the history of television. We didn’t qualify it to that extent. Other categories of shows, like “60 Minutes,” have been around longer.
Rob Stennett pronounced Matt Groening’s last name “groaning.” It’s actually pronounced “graining.” He doesn’t feel too bad about this because it’s a common mistake.
Matthew Paul Turner referred to the book/movie “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer.” It’s actually Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He feels no remorse whatsoever for this error.
In discussing Community parodies, Jason mentioned something called “Breakfast with Andre.” He was probably thinking of the film My Dinner with Andre. Or maybe Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Mostly he was trying to appear smart and bungled it.
This week’s “Question of the Week,” submitted on Facebook by Korista Lewis:
What is your preferred way for watching a television series?
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