I’ve had it up to here with this shark-on-shark violence.
When visiting aquariums as a child, I always wondered why this kind of thing didn’t happen, like, all the damn time. (Warning: video link. And kind of horrifying.)
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Posts by Stokes on Overthinking It
I bear the weapon Excalibur!
I just got through watching John Boorman’s 1981 film Excalibur (thank you Netflix). What a weird-ass movie. Not least because you get to see young Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart (already bald), Gabriel Byrne, and Ciaran Hinds, most of … Continued
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Soulja Boy Up In This Blog
I know that I missed the time when it was socially relevant to talk about Crank Dat by about three months, but whatever. It’s the internet. And I think that the song deserves some digging-into. First, a little refresher course: … Continued
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Everything’s coming up Milhouse!
“If you don’t want to exercise too much,” asks Dr. Morten Gronbaek, epidemiologist with Denmark’s National Institute of Public Health, “can you trade it for one to two drinks per day and be fine?” A study Gronbaek and colleagues just … Continued
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There Will Be Radiohead
So let’s talk about the music. As you probably know, the score is by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood (the musical equivalent of stunt casting) and it’s gotten a lot of press for that reason alone. But Greenwood has serious chops … Continued
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There Will Be Overthinking It
Just saw There Will Be Blood yesterday, and it’s all that I’m going to be thinking about for a while, so here goes. Warning: this is commentary, not a review. Reviews are supposed to help you decide whether to see … Continued
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Best of the Blogs, Jan. 2008
About 60% of the content of any given blog consists of links to other, more interesting blogs. There are exceptions, of course, but I see no reason why overthinkingit.com should be one of them. So this is the first of … Continued
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