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MASTAS 91: Ranking The 91st Oscars’ Best Song Nominees
February 28, 2018 – 12:09 PM | No Comment
MASTAS 91: Ranking The 91st Oscars’ Best Song Nominees

Joe Reid joins Mark and Sarah for a ranking — and handicapping — of this year’s Best Song candidates.

MASTAS Episode 46: Oscar-Winning Songs We Love (And Loathe)
February 23, 2017 – 12:05 PM | 2 Comments
MASTAS Episode 46: Oscar-Winning Songs We Love (And Loathe)

Mark and Sarah take home Oscar gold!

Twomato Concentrate: 16 July 2015
July 16, 2015 – 1:49 PM | 7 Comments
Twomato Concentrate: 16 July 2015

Again With This, Emmy oversights, and the Girls’ Bike Club’s sad prescience.

The Vine: September 19, 2012
September 19, 2012 – 3:19 PM | 4 Comments
The Vine: September 19, 2012

A friend and I have been batting around the idea of starting a blog together, as a way to keep in touch, bounce ideas off of each other, in essence have the conversations that we …

The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 1: Pith Fail
November 23, 2010 – 9:23 AM | 4 Comments
The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 1: Pith Fail

It didn’t feel like an hour, but that’s how long inaugural guest Couch Baron and I blathered on about baseball in the first episode of The Squared Up Podcast. I’ll have a better handle on …

The Crushed Film Festival presents: Point Break
April 14, 2010 – 5:17 PM | 29 Comments
The Crushed Film Festival presents: <I>Point Break</I>

The Movie: Point Break
The Crush Object: Keanu Reeves
The Story: Newly minted Special Agent Johnny Utah (Reeves) goes undercover with a group of L.A. surfers whose Zentificating ringleader, Bodhi (Patrick Swayze), is also the mastermind behind …

Posters and vampires
December 8, 2009 – 9:16 PM | 9 Comments
Posters and vampires

From Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth:
Morrison was immortalized first by death at 27 and then by three generations of college kids who needed a poster to cover up a creepy-looking stain in their dorm …

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
November 12, 2009 – 1:39 PM | 12 Comments
<I>Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town</I>

Reporters and writers of non-fiction run into trouble when, as their story begins to take shape, they decide that that story speaks a larger truth about Us As [Adjective] Americans.Us As 21st-Century Americans, Us As …

The man, the myth, et cetera
August 26, 2009 – 8:45 AM | 23 Comments
The man, the myth, et cetera

I made jokes, but he’ll be missed.

The bitter end
June 25, 2009 – 11:00 PM | 63 Comments
The bitter end

It all happened very fast — within a couple years of the Motown special. But even at the time of the “Motown 25” moonwalk, fame was old hat to Michael Jackson. He hadn’t even turned …