August 2011
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The Most Seattle Thing Ever
A. and I go for a walk in Seward Park, typically one of the least Seattle-y places in Seattle. She makes frequent stops because 1) she’s pregnant (very Seattle) and 2) berries abound, making Seward Park prime territory for URBAN FORAGING (ultra-Seattle). Toward the end of the loop, which is taking us forever, two able-bodied dudes passing us notice A. rooting around the brambles. She is...
Aug 11th
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Aug 8th
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Aug 6th
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Reggie Bush & Vince Young
For SportsFeat, I explain why we will never really get over them.
Aug 5th
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Aug 4th
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A Line I Have to Use Somewhere
Don’t bother with “Shark Week jumped the shark”. That was done in 2004. However, I’m pretty sure that no one has yet proposed Shark Week as shark. It’s 24 years old, which means it has run (swam?) the in/out gauntlet and hardened into tradition, or optimized fact. Shark Week, like the beast itself, is perfect at what it does. Nothing brings together the disparate...
Aug 4th
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Aug 4th
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Aug 2nd
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Aug 1st
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July 2011
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Jul 30th
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“FLAME: So where does the anger in your music come from? TYLER: Uh … FLAME: Is...”
– Waka Flocka Flame interviews Tyler, The Creator @ Interview Magazine. Related: Waka Flocka Flame “Stereo Type” Lyrics. I know we’re all supposed to be over OFWGKTA, or at least talking way less about them to make up for how much we were talking about them, but this is a good way to catch up...
Jul 30th
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Jul 30th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 25th
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Rango and Expectation
seanfennessey: Rango is inessential. It’s a matter of expectations tumbling around. Listmaking possibilities. Questions pressuring you. Do I need to see an animated lizard voiced by Johnny Depp reenact Sergio Leone’s masterpieces in a movie that has no target demographic? A Greek chorus of mariachi owls—seriously—are the first thing you’ll see when you decide that Yes, life is short and the...
Jul 25th
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Jul 23rd
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Shlock Corridor: "The Big Heat", Dir. Fritz Lang,... →
shlockcorridor: Both are so uncompromising, so intent on staring straight down into the chasm of vengeance, that there’s something inherently competitive about them. Each tries to present the most bleak, dysfunctional, corrupt America possible, and then unleashes on them an equal and opposite force. In both films, a man finds himself dead, emptied, and reduced to little more than negation....
Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
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ListenFreeDarko still has a podcast of sorts, and we did...
Jul 21st
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