In a world where a box of delicious Nestle Buncha Crunch can cost upwards of $15, scrupulosity is key for moviegoers. With costs ever rising, cinephiles have to exercise caution in their cinephiling; seeing every movie the […]
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EXCLUSIVE: BPoFD Interviews Jeff Koons
Say what you will about the man or his work, but Jeff Koons is the greatest artist who has ever lived. To promote his emblematically titled retrospective at The Whitney, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Mr. Koons […]
The 2nd Annual CarCar v Georgie NFL Showdown for All the Margaritas: Week One
Last year, Carmen “CarCar” Petaccio and George “Georgie” Gutierrez faced off in one of recorded history’s most competitive and exhaustive battles for a single frozen margarita, The CarCar v Georgie NFL Showdown for All the Margaritas. The competitors were […]
The Insane Video I Made for Some Job I Applied To
Applying for jobs is a total, categoric sham, particularly in postindustrial America. When your country’s chief manufacturing commodity is Gchat conversations, convincing the lizard people plutocracy to underpay you to sit miserably at a desk […]
Is Nate Silver A Socially Tone Deaf Tool Bag?
The civil unrest over the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri has raised a host of unanswerable questions. How can an African American President be so utterly dismissive of the […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Guardians of the Galaxy
“Less is more” is an axiom, “more is more” is not. “Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing” is an axiom, “too much of a bad thing can be a good […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Purge: Anarchy
The high concept at the center of The Purge: Anarchy and its predecessor should make for better drivel than this, but it very definitely doesn’t, and again these are movies whose lofty ideas nosedive in execution to […]
In Which I Help Mitt Romney Blog
Editor’s Note: National regret Mitt Romney recently took five of his 22 (!) grandchildren rock-climbing across the American West, an experience he recounted via blog post on the self-publishing platform Medium.com. In typical Romney fashion, the […]
Mining The New Yorker’s Fiction Archives
Every story that has appeared in The New Yorker since 2007 is currently available to be read online, free of charge, before the magazine’s site institutes a pay wall later this year. See for yourself by […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 