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Putting The “Ass” Back In “Midsummer Classic”: MLB Manager Hotness Rankings
July 13, 2015 – 12:52 PM | 13 Comments
Putting The “Ass” Back In “Midsummer Classic”: MLB Manager Hotness Rankings

My esteemed colleagues Paul Quinn and John Ramos and I didn’t arrive at the idea of ranking managerial hotness first…but I suspect the Hotness Council is the first to compare a Brewers skipper to both …

17/31: The Theory Of Everything
January 17, 2015 – 3:47 PM | No Comment
17/31: <em>The Theory Of Everything</em>

The Theory Of Everything is too much “everything,” not enough “theory.”

Les Miserables: Uch, haine
February 7, 2013 – 7:17 PM | 30 Comments
<I>Les Miserables</I>: Uch, <I>haine</I>

Never have I been so delighted to break a review screener in half as instructed. Les Miserables is everything I mean when I say I hate musicals: loud, obvious, sincere, leaden, fucking goddamn endless. Every …

28/31: My Week With Marilyn
December 28, 2011 – 9:30 PM | 10 Comments
28/31: <I>My Week With Marilyn</I>

“…Actors.” — everyone
Marilyn Monroe and her myth: spare me. I just really don’t care. I have compassion for her, for what she must have gone through that opened that maw of insecurity and narcissism, but …