Cheer Up, TV Land
Why the long face? Must be because you’re watching too much TV.
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Posts by Mark Lee on Overthinking It
The Internet Is No Longer A Series Of Tubes: Ted Stevens Loses his Senate Seat
Convicted felon Ted Stevens has lost his re-election bid for the Alaska Senate seat which he held for the last, oh, eleventy-hundred years. While in the Senate, Stevens gained notoriety for bringing home epic quantities of pork barrel projects, being … Continued
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“Things Are Getting Interesting” is getting… interesting
Remy Martin’s new ad campaign: lesbianism, threesomes, bondage, cannibalism, first person shooter? Things ARE getting interesting.
Halloween Conclusion: We Need A Terminator Awareness Campaign
Your life depends on your ability to recognize a hunter-killer cyborg.
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I Can Has Cheezburger: The Untold Story
We’ve done a lot of Overthinking(tm) of back story on this site. From Gossip Girl to Batman to Sex and the City, we desperately want to know where our fictional heroes came from. We want to be able to relate … Continued
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AC/DC, The Eagles, and Walmart: A Venn Diagram Just Waiting To Happen
Venerable rock band AC/DC made news recently, not so much for their upcoming studio album Black Ice (coming Oct 20; expect more of the same), but for their exclusive deal with Walmart to sell their new album. Walmart, that most … Continued
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Analysis: Obama Plan Raises Taxes For Many Plumbers
Joe the Plumber was singled out in the last Presidential debate for his assertion that Obama’s tax plan would raise taxes on his future plumbing business. In fact, a careful analysis of Obama’s plan shows that almost all plumbers, particularly … Continued
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The Blockbuster Bell Curve: Are we running out of good movies, too?
As a follow up to the wildly popular “Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock” article on the decline of rock music (and U.S. oil production), I decided to take the logical next step in pop culture quantitative analysis: Greatest Movies Lists. … Continued
The Musical Talmud: The KKK Took My Baby Away
[Second in a series. See also part 1, “Don’t Stop Believing.”] Oh, the Ramones, those sages of rock. No subject is too lofty nor banal for their insightful commentary, be it existential angst (“Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue”) or … Continued
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Surprise! A. O. Scott Likes Rambo. And So Should You.
Movie critic A. O. Scott has what appears to be a new series of retrospective video reviews of his favorite movies on the New York Times website, and much to my surprise, his latest entry is an independent art film … Continued
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