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Totally Unrelated: Getting Used to It
(I haven’t written a word about baseball all year, so for the Totally Unrelated Blog-a-thon, here’s a mediation on the curious phenomenon that is my ...
Cinderella's a Whore
I get irritated by commentators who claim that major-college football and men’s basketball are a priori corrupt. (I’m talking about you, King Kaufman.) I don’t ...
Link Dump
Odds and ends before we head off to New Orleans for a wedding. (Congratulations Theo and Jenny! Please do not spawn; the world has enough ...
Rooting for a Bad Guy
Mr. 3000 Mr. 3000 is the Dave of sports movies. Which is to say: It’s a good-hearted fantasy that sacrifices accuracy of detail in its ...
Illini Fever
My beloved Illinois men’s basketball team is very, very good, but this is ridiculous. It’s almost as bad as the anchor at ESPNEWS who asked ...

I’m guessing that many of the people who have seen Fireproof have never heard of No Country for Old Men. ...
Culture Snob
Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28
Methinks you misunderstand what Metacritic represents; it’s a review aggregator, so it’s supposed to tell you what critics overall think about a movie. The problem ...
Culture Snob
Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28
Metacritics have it wrong. Packed houses are the norm for this movie. A little on the amature side, but it’s the only movie I’ve been ...
Tom Sams
Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28
Wait, what the hell is Fireproof? Why is Kirk Cameron still making films? How do these films gross more than his own $7.50 admission price? ...
Scott
Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28
Perhaps it was the tenor of the discussion at The House Next Door, in which the author accused her critics of being misogynist pigs for ...
Culture Snob
"Film Critics Seem to Have a Greater Sense of Community"