Three Best Things 9/7/09 - 9/13/09: "I Forgot To Remember To Forget"
Remembering the Beatles: Chuck Klosterman plays really dumb-smart, breaking down the remastered box set released this week by some “Liverpool pop group, a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not...
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Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences: Most literature snobbery is nothing but player-hating. We say, if a crappy author makes $1M/paragraph, well, good for them. But after reading these passages by Da Vinci...
View ArticleThree Best Things, 10/26/09 - 11/1/09: Dance Like Larry Johnson Is Watching
Artist recreates Manhattan skyline on 18’x3’ canvas, all from memory.Frowny-faced NFL player Larry Johnson’s feet really cover a lot of ground. Sadly, they find his mouth more often than they find the...
View ArticleThree Best Things, 12/7/09-12/13/09: Wesley Willis makes people more...
Creed is good, and Radiohead sucks. Videogames make you smart, but being smart is bad. Imperialism is good, except when Delaware does it. As The Encyclopedia of Counterintuitive Thought demonstrates,...
View ArticleThree Best Things, 12/21/09 - 12/27/09: "Every decade, for all eternity, will...
Using Xmas instead of Christmas was originally a respectful abbreviation that openly acknowledged the speaker’s belief in the divinity of Christ. It’s funny that we assume anything that looks like...
View ArticleThe Shoddy Aughties: Best of the Decade's Worst Lists
Heads up, friends: This post is part of ENGINE’s decade-closing blogsplosion. Click here to witness the rest of the damage. The aughties!It’s time for the exhaustive list of the Worst _____ of the...
View ArticleMichael Jordan Would Defuse Those Bombs Like They Were Ehlo in '89 [Three...
Thing: My Best Worst Friend from Free Darko. A regular Joey, so regular he runs a Blogspot blog, somehow stumbled into a years-long friendship with THE Michael Jordan (THETHE Michael Jordan). Post...
View ArticleApparently Stones Are for Drinking Now [Three Best Things 4/19/10 - 4/25/10]
Thing: Don’t throw that out! Editing like it’s paper destroys journalistic value by Jonathan Stray. Thing: What’s in a Nickname? In Spirits World, an Implied Relationship by Ad Age. Coke. Jack (and...
View ArticleGround Control to Major Kelly [Three Best Things 5/17/10 - 5/23/10]
THING 1:Help me help my friend in DC from MetaFilter. An internet forum takes on the Russian mob… no, that’s literally what happened. The dad in Taken could’ve saved a whole lot of trouble if he’d...
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