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June 29, 2009

Recap: Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal live at the Wilbur Theatre from Saturday
By Ryan Stewart

"There's some backstage drama that you don't know about. I guess there's a problem with the wireless mics and they can hear what we're saying at The Color Purple!"
That was Kristen Schaal speaking to Eugene Mirman onstage last night at the Wilbur Theatre. The two were reconvening after their respective solo sets when Schaal delivered the news of the audio malfunction, presumably discovered while Mirman - he of the booming baritone - was on stage.

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Comedy, Whoops, Kristen Schaal

April 24, 2008

Mental Detox Week
By Will Spitz

Happy Mental Detox week! Yeah, so Mental Detox week began on Monday and I have yet to actually turn anything off - or at least the things that AdBusters, who launched the original TV Turn-Off week (now renamed Mental Detox Week) back in 1994, want me to. AdBusters has changed the guidelines to be both more forgiving and more inclusive.

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music, film, Flashbacks

April 02, 2008

This Thing is A Lot Like That Thing: Strike a Pose!
By Sharon Steel
Tee hee! We're all a-titter over this week's Observer cover, although we can imagine Anna Wintour has an enormous bee buzzing in her bonnet right about now. Oh my!

Here is this April's cover of Vogue, featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen. It was shot by Annie Leibovitz: click for what might have been her "inspiration."

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artsy fartsy, beat downs, Celebrity

April 02, 2008

Truck Off
By Clif Garboden
We're not the only one who noticed that more and more trucks are dashing blindly onto Soldiers Field Road/Storrow drive. That's blindly, as in failed to notice the giant sign that warns "NO TRUCKS OR BUSES."

The ever-vigilant Channel 5 news team caught on to the trend and jumped on the bandwagon with a March 31 report about some dumb trucker who blamed the fact that he'd had to stop just short of the 11-foot-clearance railroad bridge by BU on his GPS.

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Things we expected to see, Whoops

March 31, 2008

The Stupidest Bike Lane
By Will Spitz
Last week, Slate's video editor Andy Bowers posted a video of his self-nominated "Stupidest Bike Lane in America," a lane in Western Los Angeles that runs a mere 275 feet before disappearing suddenly and completely amidst busy LA traffic - sort of a "Fuck off" to bikers from LA road officials. The video:

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film, i love my bike, In poor taste

January 14, 2008

Chargers crash the party
By Ryan Stewart

Here's what we imagine happening between last Friday and this morning: football pundits like Peter King started mentally drafting their AFC Championship preview columns for Monday that would have focused on how if there was one team who could beat the Patriots, it was the team that most resembled the previous, title-winning editions of the Patriots: the Indianapolis Colts.

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Football, Patriots, Things we never expected to see

January 09, 2008

Blooper Reel: The Worst of New Hampshire Primary Night
By Carly Carioli

Five worst quotes we heard last night:

5. New York Times on Grandmama Obama:
"It's pretty amazing to see her as she sorts her corn on the ground."

4. Douchebag local radio interns, heckling Hillary:
"Iron my shirt!"

3. Bill Bennett on John McCain's unlikely comeback:
"Here's a guy who's 71 years old, a guy with broken bones, a guy who can't comb his hair."

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Politics, Barack Obama, John McCain

January 09, 2008

Two Silvers: A Brief History in Pictures
By Carly Carioli

Congrats, Mitt! Your candidacy is officially as soft as your merch!

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Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, Photography

December 20, 2007

Oh crap (Spears content).
By Carly Carioli

Ellee spread the word over on Slop earlier (complete with a fantastically crafted illustration - Ellee, you are a Photoshop genius), but Pat Lyons*, over at the NYT's Lede blog, considers a entirely different aspect to the story:

"The father of the child is variously reported to be 18 or 19 years of age, and she is 16.

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Bald Britney, breaking the law, Celebrity

October 29, 2007

A quick note about your New England Patriots
By Ryan Stewart

The gentleman pictured above is Chris Hanson, punter for the New England Patriots. In eight games, he's been called upon to punt 18 times. For those who don't know much about football, that's not a lot of punts.

But that's not what this post is about - I'm not here to give you a different spin on "The Patriots are really good."

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Football, local heroes, Patriots

September 27, 2007

Team USA Women's National Team eliminated in World Cup play
By Ryan Stewart

Would the outcome have been different had they stuck with the amazingly-named Hope Solo? Probably not.

Did Ryan open his team up to four years of second guessing with his decision? Yes.

Our soccer dude, Mitch Krpata, sums things up thusly: "I would say this is worse than Grady's Boner," referring to Grady Little famously leaving Pedro Martinez in too long in Game Seven of the 2003 ALCS (as though we have to remind you.) "Grady had too much faith in his guy -- Greg Ryan had none in his."

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Questionable motives, Soccer, Whoops

September 25, 2007

"Heroes" and "How I Met Your Mother" both stunk last night
By Ian Sands

It seems like the Heroes writers were so busy packing their premiere with plot that they neglected to consider that they were also making it unwatchable. A character had barely enough time last night to finish his/her lines before we were whisked off to the next character’s scene. Ok that’s an overstatement. But you get my point.

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Celebrity, Comedy, Superheroes

September 12, 2007

The Patriots' videotaping scandal: Let's all take a deep breath here
By Ryan Stewart

I'm not sure there's any way I can attempt to take a rational look at the recent revelations of the Patriots' videotaping tactics in a way that will make me look like anything but a homer, but I'm going to try.

What happened on Sunday was against the rules. And the Patriots got caught doing it. Whatever penalty the league decides to hand down in this case will have to be something we as fans accept and move on.

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Football, Gimme a break, Patriots

September 12, 2007

Pats caught cheating by Roger Goodell
By Ryan Stewart

OH LIKE THEY WOULDN'T HAVE WON THAT GAME ANYWAY

(Image from here via here.)

(UPDATE: Apparently this has been going on for some time. Finding out that Belichick's allegedly been doing this since he was with the Browns puts this in a new light. Hm.)

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Football, Patriots, Questionable motives

September 07, 2007

UPDATE: VANESSA ANNE HUDGENS ISN'T FIRED (YET)
By Sharon Steel

Vanessa Anne Hudgens is naked on the interweb. Also, I told you so.

UPDATE: Holy f-bomb! Disney actually canned her.
UPDATE Part II: Disney denies it. Although, clearly, they're not thrilled with 'Nessa right now.

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Celebrity, Internet, Things we expected to see

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