Convention Cheat Sheet

By Chris Baily

August 28, 2008 Uncategorized View Comments

With Obama’s speech coming up tonight (btw 10 & 11 EST) I thought I’d put together a few of the more important speeches.

Also, some of the Popten guys and gals are going to be at the Tank tonight to watch the big speech. They’ve got beer and lots of young democrats running around. The Tank is at… Read More

Top Ten Working Albums

By Jamie Antonisse

August 27, 2008 Uncategorized View Comments

So I’m staring down a long dark tunnel called Thesis Year… shut in a warehouse space with ten other amazingly intelligent and amazingly distracting Interactive Media Masters students. I’ll be spending ten or more hours a day in front of a monitor, with occasional breaks for basketball (we installed a hoop in the scrap room, simultaneously the best… Read More

Saving Musicians For Dessert

By Victor Pineiro

August 25, 2008 Uncategorized View Comments

I’m a live-in-the-moment kind of eater.  When a waitress comes by after a big meal and asks, “Have you saved room for dessert?” I have to laugh- I never think that far ahead.  Until I’m exploding, I’m focused on the hamburger, not the apple pie.  One thing at a time. Being myopic with meals works fine for me.… Read More

08.25.08 My Top Ten: Right Now

By Jeremy Kotin

August 25, 2008 Uncategorized View Comments

1. “Elegy

This little gem of a film is far from perfect, and yet it totally captured and captivated me.  Where the story failed time and again, the performances from Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson carried me through from beginning to end, as did the fantastic soundtrack with its mix of… Read More

Joe Biden Everybody…

By Chris Baily

August 23, 2008 Uncategorized View Comments

Your new Vice Presidential Candidate for the Democratic party…

more videos after the jump….

Food For Thought

By Victor Pineiro

August 22, 2008 Rants View Comments

Out wandering the desert of ignorance- 3pm last Tuesday at work- I chanced upon the following. I don’t know where the train of thought came from or was headed. Still it led me, as all thought-trains invariably do, to Wikipedia. And Wikipedia, with no show of effort or strain, answered one… Read More

Ten Memorable First Lines of First Songs

By Andy Marino

August 21, 2008 Uncategorized View Comments

This list doesn’t need much in the way of introduction; the only rule is that the lyrics must be taken from the first line of the first song on an album.

Here’s my attempt at narrowing about twenty-five contenders down to ten real attention-grabbers. Feel free to chime in with some of your favorites. To the nerdery!

NOTE:… Read More

Conference

By Jamie Antonisse

August 20, 2008 Rants View Comments

Wide, carpeted halls, too early in the morning; the symphony starts with the industrial vacuums running figure eights, retreating and returning, fortissimo, pianissimo.  Lulled almost to sleep, hunched against a fake wall with the cuffs of my Good Pants dusting the only square inch of unscoured carpet in that cavernous space, I can imagine that’s the sum total… Read More

We’re losing at Risk, and it Sucks.

By Chris Baily

August 19, 2008 Uncategorized View Comments

McCain has been attacking Obama for opposing “The Surge” back in 2006, and he’s scoring some political points with the issue. Obama still won’t say it was a good idea, even though it seems to have been relatively successful. I couldn’t figure out why, but then Russia invades Georgia, and I’m starting to see Obama’s point. The surge… Read More

10 Things I Learned From “Man On Wire”

By Jason Reynolds

August 17, 2008 Uncategorized View Comments

For those who don’t know, there’s this French guy, Philippe Petit, who is a hire wire artist. That’s right, a high wire artist. Before learning of Mr. Petit, I always referred to this type of “artist” as a tightrope walker, or a circus dude. But hey, tomato, tomato (the latter pronounced Tuh-MAH-Toe.)

Philippe Petit got his claim to… Read More

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