Archive for January, 2010

I’d Be A Great Basketball Player For 1952

I really wish I could play basketball, but it seems like the only options for games are the six-foot-tall monsters who just missed the draft, or the Asian foreign exchange students who couldn’t get into the badminton game. Essentially there is no middle class in pickup basketball games.
And it’s really frustrating, because that’s exactly where [...]

How Could Dominos Rescind Jersey Shore Advertising When Dominos is the Jersey Shore of Pizza?

Jersey Shore had its season finale last week with the genuine bombshell leading to Sammi and Ronnie breaking up (I’m not sure which was the guy and the girl).
Italian-American defamation leagues did their usual protesting and boycotting of MTV, arguing that the show promotes negative stereotypes of Italian heritage. The protesters then threatened to send [...]

Which Gym Is Right For Me? Flow Chart

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Monumental Food Industry Books Have Motivated Me To Give Unhealthy Foods Really Dirty Looks

Motivated by a deep-seeded desire to appear smart and insightful, I recently read Fast Food Nation back-to-back with the Omnivore’s Dilemma, both of which made me extremely hungry.

There’s no question that these books are important and educational, which is the exact message I wanted to convey to people seeing me reading these books on the [...]

Do Foreign Umbrella Salesmen in New York Always Yell At You Because They Don’t Have a Word for Umbrella?

Whenever it rains in New York, the street vendors come out in full force to hawk umbrellas, but I could never figure out why they were more aggressive with their sales pitch than any other person along Times Square.
The knockoff wallet dude is always chill, sitting along the sidewalk playing dominoes with cell phone cover [...]

Shouldn’t Jackie Chan Have English Down By Now?

I just saw the preview for The Spy Next Door, which finally combines the movies Spy Kids and Rear Window, and it just seems a little surprising that Jackie Chan still speaks English as well as the hostess at my local Wok Don’t Run.
Avatar invented an entire race, with its own language, culture and traditions [...]

The Indisputable Top Ten Movies of 2009

All those other top ten movies of 2009 lists, namely the Golden Globes and Oscars are knockoffs. This list is correct and irrefutable, unless you like overrated movies, like District 9 and Paranormal Activity, in which case you’d like to be popular, which probably wouldn’t land you here. Here we go…
Just missed the cut: The [...]

Angry Girls Are Like Mandarin Because The Inflection Gives the Same Words Different Meanings

People knock Mandarin for being a tricky language because the emphasis on a certain syllable can make a word’s meaning be either “I love you,” or, “Your mother’s a whore” (although I don’t know what the Chinese is for, “I love your whore mother”). It’s a tonal language with a lot of sounds and vocal [...]

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