Hey Earn This friends and readers… Back in 2009, a group of us started this blog during our senior year of college. 13 years, 22 writers, 900 articles, and 1.2 million readers later, we’ve entered adulthood and have all moved to bigger and (debatably) better endeavors. I’m excited to share with you one such effort,…
Brian mostly writes about movies and TV, but he’s contributed some music commentary over the years. This week, I’m revisiting seven of his song reviews and recommendations. “The System is Down” by Strong Bad From an email to me and Colton at 12:05 AM on May 23, 2015 Guys… [link to song] Reply to the…
Introduction The Top 10 Most Iconic Songs of 2010-14 Brian Terrill’s Small-Screen 66 The Top 30 Taylor Swift Songs Brian’s Year of Free Movies Ranking the 2015 Grammy Nominees Ranking Potential 2016 Super Bowl Halftime Performers Ranking the Seasons of The Office Ranking the Numbers 1-10 The Top 10 Count Gauntly Episodes (So Far) The Top 10 Characters…
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…
Dear readers of Earn This, I am thrilled to hit the “Publish” button on this post, because Earn This now has 500 articles in its archives! The site will turn five years old in August, and we’ve had an amazing run so far writing about everything under the sun (but mostly music and movies). When Grant and…
I’ve been recruited to write episode recaps for the third season of Game of Thrones over at CharacterGrades.com! Character Grades uses the format of a report card for characters from the series with a tongue-in-cheek tone. I started with a round-up of the second season and then wrote a recap of “Valar Dohaeris,” the first episode of…
At the end of 2010, I made a post counting down my top 25 favorite things from that year. It was a fun and revelatory process to reflect on what had affected me during the previous twelve months. Now that 2011 is wrapping up, I’d like to put together another end-of-year discussion of the year’s…
As we approach the 18-month mark for our web-site, we’ve decided to revisit a few of the best articles from our annals. Each of the three main writers for this site have chosen a few of their own favorite articles. There’s also a list of the most popular articles in the history of the site.…
For the past few months, I’ve been meaning to do a sweeping revision of everything I’ve written for Earn This. I finally waded through the archives, polishing and trimming and clarifying to make my writing stronger. I’m notoriously bad at picking up every grammar or wording error before I publish an article, but my archive…
Grant chose ten of his favorite articles from the Earn This archives, presented here in no particular order with a choice quote from each article: Jay Mathews writes, logic cries “I very much believe that intelligent discussion of one of the country’s most prominent high schools is warranted. This is not that.” Shutter Island: Live…