To celebrate our fifth birthday, each Earn This contributor is selecting his five favorite things from the past five years. Here are Grant’s picks. 5) Parks and Recreation The Office was good, but Parks and Rec was better. There’s not much new to be said about PnR, but for me, the biggest takeaway is how it’s possible…
To celebrate our fifth birthday, each Earn This contributor is selecting his five favorite things from the past five years.Here are Dan’s picks. 5. Community, Season 1 (2009-10) The #5 spot came down to two seasons of NBC sitcoms that aired during 2009-2010, starting within a week of each other: Parks and Rec, Season 2…
Earn This hit another big milestone recently: our fifth birthday! We used that as an inspiration to put together a retrospective on the past five years of entertainment. (Of course, it took us two months to actually get our acts together… but better late than never!) What we decided to do was each pick our…
To celebrate our fifth birthday, each Earn This contributor is selecting his five favorite things from the past five years. Here are Colton’s picks. Rap Genius (October 2009) First, there were lyrics. Skip ahead a bit. In 1999, the confused masses rejoiced at the creation of Urban Dictionary, an online reference point that, through community…
That’s right, I’m back again, for a final FINAL chapter of “Ten Things Brian Likes.” I won’t stop beating this dead horse ’til it’s glue. In the first half of my honorable mentions, I acknowledged ten more topics about which I’m passionate. Now, to close out the series, I’m returning to the original ten “canonical” categories,…
I’ve put together two quick Honorable Mentions posts to cap off the “Ten Things Brian Likes” series. These are intended to be brisk reads, and so I’ll keep it brief, even though some of the subjects touched on could furnish an entire article. In this first half, I wanted to share ten more Things I…
Halloween season is almost here! The annual “Creepy Classics Countdown” (heavily influenced by James Rolfe’s Monster Madness) will be unfolding all October over at Brian Terrill Movie Night. Following up on yesterday’s “Countdown’s Past” post, here’s a compilation of the selections from my 2013 series. Kindly excuse the exorbitant length. (Heheheheheheheh.) #1: “(Hush, Hush, Hush)…
Dear readers of EarnThis, I just wanted to give a heads-up that I’ll be posting my latest “Creepy Classics Countdown” all through October over at Brian Terrill Movie Night. To get you “up to speed,” I’m posting the two previous Countdowns here in compilation form. The new Countdown kicks off in two days…check back tomorrow…
Ever wish you could make a living by sitting on your couch and talking about pop culture? If so, you’re not alone…so-called “internet reviewers” are a dime a dozen. All it takes is a camcorder, a computer, and an opinion, and you too can cast yourself adrift amidst the sea of amateur critics “broadcasting” from…
Last week, I reviewed the first musical by StarKid Productions, A Very Potter Musical. The second production by the group is called Me and My Dick and it’s a coming-of-age, high school love story in which everyone’s genitals are anthropormophized, walking around and having conversations with their owners. If you couldn’t guess by the title, it’s a…