Yahtzee Croshaw is an English-born, Australian-based comedian and gamer who started posting game review videos to YouTube in 2007. The videos were low-production, rapid-fire slideshows of pictures he drew in Microsoft Paint and narrated by himself. Six and a half years later, and Yahtzee is one of the most popular game reviewers on the net.…
So, what is it that makes Taylor Swift appealing? What is it about her music that drew me in enough to make her the most embarrassing entry on my top 100 (or maybe runner up)? Before I try to answer those questions, let’s take a quick walk through her career to date. Swift burst on…
I watched a bunch of Drake and Josh reruns just over a year ago and… there’s a lot about this show that hasn’t aged well. Some of the plots are incredibly stupid. Pretty much any story centered around mischief caused by Megan (a young Miranda Cosgrove) is frustrating. A bunch of the early episodes leaned…
This is on here more for the book than for the movie, even though I liked both. Never Let Me Go is a great example of a book that slowly sucked me but then never let me go (ha) once it did. It’s part coming-of-age story, part character drama, and part horror novel. Author Kazuo…
My friends and I did a “fantasy rock band” draft about a year ago. We set up a “roster” of frontman, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, drummer, songwriter, and “wildcard” for a mythical band. Then, like a fantasy football draft, we took turns choosing musicians to fill up that roster. The rule was you get that musician…
I was an avowed daily reader of the Washington Post Sports section throughout middle and high school. The Post trails behind the NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, and maybe a couple others in overall prestige. But there’s no way any newspaper ever assembled a more impressive stable of sportswriters than the Post those last…
Phil Spector is the greatest producer in the history of rock and roll. Unquestionably. Not only have his tracks included some of the greatest pop and rock songs of all time, but many great artists and whole movements — Bruce Springsteen, The Beach Boys, ABBA, the entire shoegaze movement — have cited Phil Spector as…
I think New Girl’s second season might have been the funniest sitcom season I’ve seen since How I Met Your Mother’s heyday. It bumped New Girl onto this list. New Girl has been heavily marketed throughout its life, so you probably know that it was originally a Zooey Deschanel vehicle, showcasing her distinct brand of…
When I was in sixth grade, my parents decided the female teen idols that were sweeping the charts — specifically Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears — were too sultry and suggestive for my young ears. This censorship would have made most pre-teen boys become obsessed with them, but I was a good, obedient kid. I…
The first TV console I owned was a Playstation, which my brothers and I got for Christmas sometime around the year 2000. A few years later, I saved up some lawn-mowing money to buy an SNES on eBay. Great decision. Since I splurged for Super Mario All Stars (remakes of all 4 NES Mario games)…