Inspired by the AV Club’s enjoyable AVQ&A series, Earn This writers and friends teamed up and decided to do their own roundtable, question-answering session. The question we stole directly from a recent AVQ&A entry: You’ve discovered a genie, but he has some limitations: He can only grant one wish, and it must be within the…
A record-setting number of people watched The Big Game yesterday, so I’m sure everyone and their grandmother has something to say about the proceedings. Nonetheless, I couldn’t resist sharing my own take on a few aspects of yesterday’s Super Bowl. The matchup Really, was there a worse possible matchup? Both teams have won Super Bowls…
When I saw Dan’s predictions, I felt compelled to follow up with a batch of my own. But I knew I had to one-up him somehow, so I went for the old snazzy-synonym-in-the-title trick. Works every time. I’m gonna classify these as “Temerarious (But Not Lunatic).” I predict that, in 2012… Five different dance albums…
I know I’m delinquent on my end of 2011 posts, but after seeing this post on Grantland, I couldn’t resist interrupting my countdown to make a few predictions for 2012, mostly in the pop culture department. Like Grantland, I will classify these predictions as “Fearless (But Not Insane).” I predict that, in 2012… JK Rowling…
This is part of my 2011 wrap-up series, A Few of My Favorite Things, in which I discuss what I enjoyed this year, regardless of when it was released. 12. Grantland Sports and pop culture web site (debuted 06/2011) When you visit www.grantland.com, you’re greeted with contrasting images: At the center, you have the elegant, classicly-styled…
This is part of my 2011 wrap-up series, A Few of My Favorite Things. Before I jump into my top fifteen for 2011 — read the overview here — I wanted to discuss a few items that I chose not to include on the list for one reason or another. Parks and Recreation This…
I know we don’t write much about sports here at Earn This, but I’m going to file it under the “pop culture” part of our description. Let’s rewind a decade. A dominant Shaq-Kobe Lakers team stifled MVP Allen Iverson in the Finals to go 15-1 in the playoffs. Chris Webber and Gary Payton were still…
Alright, we’re back for Round 2 of wondering What The Hell Jay Mathews is trying to say. New readers are highly encouraged, should they have a hankering for snarky criticism of poor logic exhibited in published newspaper columns, to check out this. When I saw that Mr. Mathews, of the Washington Post, had delivered his devoted…
Brace yourself, all 4 of our readers (oh hai)…my post today will either be an Earnthis vanguard—or an epic failure. It addresses neither movies/TV nor music, but if you make me, I’ll defend its popular culture relevance, and that’s listed in our tagline too. Our source material today is a column from Washington Post writer…