USA at the 2010 World Cup: Pop Culture Roundup
Dodge Muscle Cars, “Team America: World Police,” and Elvis: staples of America’s World Cup pop culture hegemonic discourse.
Posts by Mark Lee on Overthinking It
The (CI)A-Team
Dangerous practitioners of extra-legal violence: the CIA, the A-Team, or both?
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The Karaoke Quotient, Part 2: Is “Summer Nights” The Best Karaoke Song Of All Time?
Is "Summer Nights" The Best Karaoke Song Of All Time? Tell me more, tell me more!
Episode 101: An Instructional Film About Forklift Operation
The Overthinkers tackle our best & worst karaoke experiences, the last part of our 2010 Summer Movies preview, the misleading film titles of Angelina Jolie, and how to decide on a movie when you’re on a date. Don’t blame us when you get dumped over seeing The Expendables.
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The Karaoke Quotient
A formula for calculating how appropriate a pop song is for karaoke. Find our what your favorite song’s Karaoke Quotient is–and if it might the best karaoke song of all time.
Episode 99: Of Course It’s An Electric Dog
The Overthinkers tackle Lost (or rather, not watching it), the western video game Red Dead Redemption (aka Grand Theft Horse), Troll 2/Best Worst Movie, the nature of camp, and the bleak existential desert that is reality.
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The Devil In You And Me: Making the Metal Sign
Satan! Sex! Heavy Metal! Dialectic!
Geek Week Rewind: “Gold chains and social capital: Subaltern strategies of resistance and the coercive authority of the state in Mr. T-oriented fool-pitying”
The highlight of our Geek Week performance, in which Fenzel, Sheely, and Shechner present the political and sociological implications of our favorite hero, Mr. T.
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A Brief History of Fool-Pitying: Origins of the Phrase “I Pity the Fool”
An exploration of fool-pitying through history.
“Street Fighter” and the Role of Multilateral Foreign Policy in a Post-Cold War World
America’s struggle between multilateralism and unilateralism as demonstrated by Col. Guile in the "Street Fighter" movie.
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