get on and ride

If you’ve ever had sex, you should watch SHORTBUS. It is by degrees touching, hysterical, hopeful, depressing, fantastic, real, mind-bogglingly explicit, and deliciously subtle. It…

Soccer Today!

The inaugural game of spring soccer is today!  You should totally come.

wii wiill rock you.

Let me be perfectly clear here, from the start. The single best part of Nintendo’s masterful new console is in fact, the multitude of awful…

year in review: your lack of freedom

Slate presents the Top 10 Civil Liberties Violations Of The Year (USA edition).  Remember folks:  not only can the President define what ‘torture’ is or…

goal of the season

And here it’s only December. Matty Taylor, for Portsmouth, against Everton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukWXif4UiGs I’d also like to point all you people who think you’re clever towards…

irony, or mr. campbell

Just a quick burst of wisdom from Mr. Eddie Campbell, on current creative output: “In the old days i’d have made a one-page ‘Alec’ out…

the best player in the world…

…plays for Barca: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpzX5vGdmnM The impressive thing, for me, about that goal is that his first touch *totally* lets him down, the ball goes 180…

why record stores matter

So there’s been a lot of drama on my local electronic music message board, about the whole vinyl vs. digital thing, and the value of…

The Invincibles

So on this one, all your Manchester United fans with your titles, all you Liverpool fans with your European Cups, and all your new-school Chelsea…