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Blog to Book Review: 11 Points Guide to Hooking Up
Blogs-to-books aren’t a well-respected genre. As the editor of Twitter Wit, which was simply a collection of funny Twitter messages, I was accused of killing American literature. (Spoiler: nope.) And...
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Review: The “Perfect Strangers” Browser Game
Perfect Strangers is out on DVD, and there’s a browser game to advertise it. Storyline: Balki from Perfect Strangers must catch all the stars in a music video of the show’s theme song, or he will...
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“Wreck-It Ralph” looks GREAT
Wreck-It Ralph looks so good. It looks like it’s the first good mainstream video-game-referencing thing ever created. When I first heard about it, I was optimistic based on early art but skeptical...
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It Never Rained in the Bronx
You know that crazy uncle who tells weird, rambling tales and says, “I’ve got so many stories from those days I could fill a book”? What if he went ahead and made it happen? While watching the LA Kings...
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The Five-Flavor Takis Taste Test
Hot Cheetos and Takis. That’s my favorite snack. — Y.N. Rich Kids Over 2.5 million viewers have watched “Hot Cheetos and Takis” over the past month and many have looked up at the sky and asked the god...
View ArticleReviewing board games after a week without internet
Here’s a weird but totally factual statement: Because of the weather, I didn’t have a job last week. As someone who A) relies entirely on the internet for income and b) was among those who lost...
View ArticleWhy I’m glad Skyfall isn’t all about the gadgets
The new James Bond film, Skyfall, hits theaters tonight! It’s got a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes right now, which should be enough to pique your interest. I caught a sneak preview a couple nights ago, and...
View ArticleNew GTA V trailer: Video games are art, that argument is done now
People seem to be skipping straight to the pure art, and yet nobody’s made the Caddyshack in games yet, right? So I’m like, woah woah woah, let’s put on the brakes – let’s make Caddyshack, and then we...
View ArticleWhy Wheatus’“Teenage Dirtbag” is the worst song ever made
My first exposure to Wheatus was in 2007, on the old community-run website flashflashrevolution, a Dance Dance Revolution ripoff that involved tapping the keyboard instead of dancing on a pad. When the...
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Better Book Covers and I Love Charts review “Wreck-It Ralph”
Occasionally, Dan Wilbur and Jason Oberholtzer need some time off from writing genre-redefining books based on blogs. They usually watch movies. Then email about them. Spoilers below. Jason...
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The “Home Alone” novelizations are horrifying torture porn
Below are real quotes from the Home Alone novelizations. We’re not kidding, you can fact-check. — Ed. So we’re all on the same page here, right? We’ve all been in this situation? You’re on a stroll,...
View ArticleAlbum review: The Beatles, “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
Reprinted with permission from Aaron Nevins on Tumblr. As a culture, we’ve all been inundated with buzz about The Beatles. They’re probably one of the most hyped bands since The Head and the Heart, and...
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