I don’t know why everybody is suddenly discovering Garfield Minus Garfield. I tried to tell you about it two years ago1. It is pretty great though, so I guess I’ll just have to accept the fact that a link from me isn’t quite enough to propel something into worldwide popularity.

1 Although that was [...]

Posted in Internet Hi-Jinx, Links

Hi, computers! I know, it’s been a while. I wish I could say I’ve been really busy, but I don’t think that would be strictly accurate. I have been pretty busy, but I’ve been on my computer pretty much without cease that whole time. I’ve been twittering and google reading and scrabulousing; I just haven’t [...]

Posted in Life

I really enjoyed this Washington Post story about Tokyo’s surfeit of great restaurants. The Michelin guide just released its first edition covering the city, canvassing its 160,000 restaurants (almost eight times as many as New York City) and granting an astonishing 191 stars (Paris has 98, NYC 54). The story is kind of about that, [...]

Posted in Etc

[This post was spurred by this io9 piece about Kanye West and Daft Punk.]

There’s so much wrong about Kanye West’s performance at the Grammys last week. The awkward missing swears. The misogyny. The fact that Kanye essentially appropriates an incredibly awesome sample (Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger,” off of their amazing album, “Discovery”) wholecloth [...]

Posted in Music, Writing

Well, I was way wrong about the game. I take solace in the fact that I’m not alone in that, and in the fact that I’m not really a Patriots fan. That said, I was definitely rooting for them to win, and I’m shocked and disappointed that they didn’t.

I’m pretty annoyed with Belichick for a) [...]

Posted in Sports

If you were more interested in the Spygate stuff than the TV-14 stuff, you may be interested to know that Gregg Easterbrook has another column up today, going into a little more detail on why new stories are popping up this week, and what the Patriots are alleged to have done. I dunno, I still [...]

Posted in Media, Sports

From Gregg Easterbrook’s over-the-top absurd column that essentially asserts that the Patriots’ season is indelibly tainted by “Spygate”—which is, in terms of its actual effect on competition in the leage, a complete non-event1:Will the Victoria’s commercial be TV-14? Earlier this season, TMQ noted that NBC’s Sunday night football wrap show is rated TV-14—I wondered whether [...]

Posted in Economics and Advertising, Sports, Television