Rising singer-songwriter Sam Behymer was gracious enough to talk with EarnThis.net, following up on our recent post about her competing on NBC’s The Voice. Since that post, Behymer was knocked out of the televised competition but has garnered many new fans from the experience. And, as you’ll see below, she appears to be revitalized in…
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…
In our last post, Lionel Richie told us to let the music play on. So let’s do just that. Toward the end of my first year at TJ, my class scheduled a talent show to be part of the “Lock-In,” an overnight event for Freshmen held at the school. More or less out of the…
“SMASH!?” I shouted as I walked in the front door of my college house, affectionately known as The Batcave. It was just after midnight. Birdman, who had been working on the school paper with me, walks in behind me. My roommate C-Bag, sitting on the couch looking at his laptop, looked up at us. Barely a…
The idea is simple — one or more of us select a category. Then, we each choose a few things from that category and write about those things. The categories can be broad or hyper-specific, selections can span one medium or multiple, entries can be short bullet points or huge diatribes. And that’s the point —…
“The people you work with are people you were just throw together with. You know, you don’t know them, it wasn’t your choice, and yet you spend more time with them then you do your friends or your family. But probably all you’ve got in common is the fact that you walk around on the…
“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.” – Dr. Mary Malone Well, this one snuck up on me. From September 2012 through September 2013, I…
If you haven’t figured this out yet, here’s an inside scoop: There are more board games than ever, they are more varied than ever, and they are better designed than ever. You can build a galactic empire, renegotiate The Cold War, engage in epic fantasy battles, outsmart Cthulu, even relive dogfights from Star Wars. All…
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. – Dr. Malcolm Jurassic Park is a dinosaur-action-disaster-horror-thriller-adventure movie that is one of my favorites for so many reasons. I love it. Nay, I adore it. Is it a good movie? Yes! Is it a great movie? ….Yes! (You can…
When I was putting this list together, I had The Sims 3 ranked about here, in the top 40, and I wondered “does this game really deserve a spot this high?” So I installed the game and all twenty expansion packs — yes, twenty — and booted up the game. I made a Sim named…