Underthinking It: A Beginner’s Guide to Mozfarting
Mozfarting is the new thing. Do it and do it like a champ. Or be the chump. Your call, hoss.
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Posts by Peter Fenzel on Overthinking It
Underthinking It: Top 10 Books of the Bible
Honorable Mention: Songs Most Overrated: Revelation 10. Matthew 9. Genesis 8. Isaiah 7. Daniel 6. Exodus 5. Mark 4. Job 3. Psalms 2. Ecclesiastes 1. Samuel I You’re welcome.
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Dockingjay: Logistics in the Hunger Games
At Overthinking It, we’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on an excerpt from the upcoming Hunger Games Extended Universe novella about a brave young woman who dares to dream of independence and the open road, set against the backdrop of the nation of Panem’s trucking, shipping, supply management and logistics industry.
The Musical Talmud: “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” by Kelly Clarkson
Pop musicians love quoting Friedrich Nietzsche. But do they love what he means?
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Silent Star, Surfer, Spy: Jean Dujardin and Characters About Characters
This Sunday, Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor Oscar for the role of Georg Valentin in The Artist, playing a charismatic silent movie actor incapable of coping with the world of sound. Intellectually motivated movies about movies tend to punch … Continued
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7 Serious Lessons from Will Ferrell Movies
Everything Must Go is a very serious Will Ferrell Movie. But then again, all Will Ferrell movies are very serious Will Ferrell movies.
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The Death of the Author and of Katy Perry
Did Katy Perry intend to unfollow Russell Brand on Twitter? Or was she thwarted by French literary theorist Roland Barthes?
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Dual Survival, Man Woman Wild, and Surviving a Semi-Scripted Relationship
What makes for a good survival TV scene? Hint: it isn’t survival.
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A Muppet of a Marxist, or a Very Marxist Muppet?
The new Muppet movie is about traversing alienation and owning your work. But is it Communist?
L.A. Noire and the Video Game Value of Work
Why are video games 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration?
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