Archive for January, 2010

in the end, everyone makes fun of Coldplay

What follows is an actual conversation between myself and a long-time friend, Justin Koeppen. No spelling has been corrected. PBR: Ever listen to “The Do”? JK: Never haves. PBR: I was hoping they’d sound remarkably different. But they don’t, really. Female lead is kind of like Hope Sandoval, but not enough. JK: How much more [...]

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Poor Dumb New York Times

The New York Times recently put the rumor that they were going to erect another pay wall around their website to rest…by admitting that they are going to erect another pay wall around their site. And there’s a lot of heated discussion going on about this right now. Are they right? Are they wrong? Running [...]

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Grammar, Logic, and Math Users Need Not Apply

Ah, the Franklin Mint. You’ve stood too long and produced too many “commemorative” items to go without some serious checking. Wow! Don’t you feel patriotic! Don’t you want to own not one, but fifty pieces of American history? Well, let’s hope not, because then we couldn’t be friends. Let’s dissect a commercial, shall we? I [...]

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