This Year’s Model

ANIMALS (FANCY) Charger Impala Mustang Viper ANIMALS (GROSS) Beetle ANIMALS (MYTHOLOGICAL) Equus Taurus CHARACTER TRAITS Civic Clarity Fit Insight iQ Smart Soul Speed FOREIGNY Alpina Aventador Cabriolet Cadenza Camaro Fiesta Fiorano Forte Galibier Gallardo Italia Kizashi Mulsanne Panamera Passat Quattroporte Rapide Verano Virage NAMES THE KIDS IN MARKETING CAME UP …

Big in Japan

Greetings, new recruit of the Japanese Defense Force’s Giant Radioactive Monster Battalion! No doubt that you, as a citizen of our great nation, have been raised with many colorful tales of the heroic struggles your predecessors in the G.R.M.B. fought in the 1950s and 1960s.  Perhaps this even influenced your …

American Idol, Season 12 – Episode 12: Second Las Vegas Elimination Round

Two more hours of Idol tonight! I might literally die, and then I’d never know what eventual winner I will fail to buy any records from. Tonight is exactly the same set-up as last night, only with the boys, so let’s get right to it. Keith Urban is wearing a …

American Idol – Season 12, Episode 11: First Las Vegas Elimination Round

At this point in my life, I have been watching American Idol for 12 years — a longer time than I have done practically anything else, including date a woman, hold a job, or refrain from taking narcotics. My primary concern is just trying to remember everyone’s name, which is …

American Idol – Season 12, Episode 9: Hollywood, Women’s Round

It’s LADY WEEK in Hollywood! That means lots of crying, although let’s be honest, the guys were a pretty weepy lot this time around, too. After a boring recap of last week’s nonsense (lines of ten in single performance, followed by extra-brutal group round), we experience a strong push for …

For the Home Team

Pitchers and catchers have reported to spring training, and that can only mean one thing:  six months of manic-depressive obsessing over baseball!  But not everyone is like me, hardened like a Turk’s brass knuckle by years of following the sport.  How does a newcomer know what team to root for? …

Between Impression and Expression: Myles na gCopaleen

(from the Irish Times‘ ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’ column) You must keep this strictly under your hat but I received an invitation to be in attendance at 86 St Stephen’s Green last Thursday evening to hear a ‘paper’ on…guess?…’The Function and Scope of Criticism’.  It interests me as a scientist that there is …