JOHN TYLER'S HEIRS APPLAUD POLITELY: Via a recent AskReddit which wondered "What's the one fun fact that you most often tell people?", I now know that there is an existing photograph in which both Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt appear.
(Last time we surveyed your favorite amazing facts: January 2012.)
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
IS THE WATER WARM ENOUGH? IndieWire's weekly critics survey features a good compilation of great soundtracks/scores attached to relatively lousy films.
I SMELT IT. I DEALT IT. AND IT WAS GOOD: While many of us read Dahlia Lithwick's work on Slate, it's only relevant here about once-per-year, and that one time for 2013 is now because she decided to wear Axe Body Spray for a week to see how it felt to smell "like teen boy spirit."
Monday, October 21, 2013
HE'S THE ONE WHO LIKES ALL OUR PRETTY SONGS: The results of our Doodle poll on the 2014 nominees to the Non-Country Popular Music of the 1950s and Beyond Hall of Fame are not tremendously surprising -- almost unanimous support for Nirvana (52/54 votes, 96.2%); strong but not filibuster-defeating support for N.W.A. (32), Peter Gabriel (31), Hall and Oates (29), and Linda Ronstadt (25); decent support for The Replacements (17, too low!) and Yes (15) and not much for anyone else, though no one went home empty-handed.
In the coming weeks, the editors of this blog will work up some Keltner analyses on the nominees we haven't yet handled. I don't think much of the Peter Gabriel case, so maybe that's the one I ought to try to examine objectively, while I'd be total fanboy on Hall and Oates regardless my qualms over the video for "Out of Touch." Meanwhile, go ahead and defend your ballot.
In the coming weeks, the editors of this blog will work up some Keltner analyses on the nominees we haven't yet handled. I don't think much of the Peter Gabriel case, so maybe that's the one I ought to try to examine objectively, while I'd be total fanboy on Hall and Oates regardless my qualms over the video for "Out of Touch." Meanwhile, go ahead and defend your ballot.
OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS: Attention Christian Borle completists and fans of sugar: the entirety of MTV's sing-a-long broadcast of Legally Blonde: The Musical is available on YouTube, and now that my daughters know I'm not sure when I'll be allowed to put on anything else for them.
[Matt's April 2007 preview review is here; from July 2008, Kim and Marsha debate the conclusion of MTV's Who Wants To Be Elle Woods?]
[Matt's April 2007 preview review is here; from July 2008, Kim and Marsha debate the conclusion of MTV's Who Wants To Be Elle Woods?]
THANK YOU DREW HENSON, DANNY AINGE, AND MARK HENDRICKSON: There's now an app to Kevin Baconize any pair of NFL, MLB, and NBA athletes.
THAT'LL BE IN MY MIND FOR THE REST OF THE DAY: Hey, people who aren't caught up on The Good Wife yet? Especially after last night, get moving—and next week is what one of the actors has already called their "Red Wedding" episode.
The line for Best Supporting Actress-Drama now forms behind Christine Baranski.
The line for Best Supporting Actress-Drama now forms behind Christine Baranski.
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