Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on Feb 24th, 2011
You know it’s coming, but knowing doesn’t matter. You remain unprepared. You wake in a strange bed without knowing how to dress yourself, how to choose between clothing you love and clothing you’ll later want to burn. You think about fire. Eventually you remember that the hospital’s chilly, and you decide to wear your favorite [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 21st, 2011
Think of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Shimmy Shimmy Ya, Salt N’ Peppa’s Shoop, The Trashmen’s Bird-word, The Ramones’ Gabba Gabba, Lady Gaga’s Roma-Roma-Mamaa, Little Richard’s Womp Bop-a-Lou Bop, Muddy Waters’ No-B, O-child, Y, Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Hanson’s MMMBop, David Seville’s Ting-Tang-Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang. The Spice Girls wanted to Zig-a-Zig-Ahhh, Gene Vincent licks Be-Bop-A-Lula, Project Pat sings Good Googly [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 16th, 2011
In middle school “technology skills” class, we were instructed to always type two spaces after a period or question mark (exclamation mark usage was strictly forbidden—such emotive punctuation is too easy to abuse…). This double-space rule had been around since Guttenberg, but it really came into fashion during the middle of the twentieth century to [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 10th, 2011
The popularity of the NFL mock draft speaks to two primary reasons that the internet exists: sports discussion and peoples’ need to be right all the time. The mock draft was invented by sports journalists to fill page space on deadline with pure speculation. Sports radio leached off the newspapers, knowing that sports radio callers [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 7th, 2011
Think of the Australian Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo as the exotic cousin of the barnyard chicken. By simply recalling the crude expression “a cock and two balls,” you can quite easily remember the cockatoo’s name. However, this bird is anything but crude when it flashes a feathery headdress that looks like a bright yellow sea anemone suckling [...]
Posted in Replies & Rebuttals on Feb 2nd, 2011
Not all teas are created equal. Take Tetley’s Green Tea with Lemon, whose taste is described as “an ugly light starved moth … excreted from the behind of an ill cat.” No. Not equal. Not all of them. If you’re in search of a tea for the finer palette, might I humbly suggest Celestial Seasonings’ [...]