That's the sort of song i wouldn't object to hearing in an Essential Mix, but I know that I would quickly get irritated with the precious white-boy indy singing if I had to listen to a whole album.

Video games, too, although to some extent it's sort of like hip-hop. The big releases like Call of Duty, Madden, etc, generally do get really good reviews, but people generally don't look at them as arbiters of where games are heading as a medium. The ironic thing is that in indy rock, the artists are probably not…

Rob and Amber were eliminated early in their second run, an All-Stars season. They came in second in season 7, which was one of the better ones that I can remember. They basically played it Neutral Evil all the way through, but it was highly effective. Didn't work out so great in the All-Stars run.

I sorta felt the same way, mainly because unlike some other stunt casting, Ethan and Jenna just aren't as good reality TV characters. I hate Boston Rob's guts, but zomg that guy makes good television.

Disappointingly not as strong as the first episode, which was one of the better openers in the series in a while. The final "give ALL your money" thing was a nice twist, and of course we all know that most people would miss it. It was in the clue, right? I don't know how teams haven't learned to sit there obsessing…

Chances of me watching this show instead of Community are nil, but I had to brag that I own the Batman lunch-box that's sitting on the counter in the promo pic.

I'll take CancerAIDS over any of the ridiculous Reddit memes.

Oh, I'm even more in the demo for this show, except for the stay-at-home part. My wife does that. Our son is three months old, and the first episode especially felt quite familiar.

That was exactly what I was thinking. The "eliminated on the first challenge" season was stupid. I generally dislike non-elimination legs, especially when the speed-bumps are stupidly easy, but I'd rather get a little bit of a storyline with a team before they get whacked.

Yeah, I liked the billboard challenge because it actually seemed kinda difficult. They actually had to engage their brains, make an educated guess, and interact with locals. Well played, Amazing Race producers.

I was just sorry the girls didn't flash their boobs at the guys as a reward for finding the passport. That would have been good television.

What I laughed at was how he felt that he needed to hide the fact that he was a football player, because it might make the other teams see him as more of a threat. Uh, actually nobody sees you as a threat cause of your profession, it's more because you're huge and will clearly dominate any physical challenge.

"You BAD, boy!"

I'm going to have it blown up to poster size and hung in the front room of my house. Pretty sure I'll be able to convince people who haven't seen Jersey Shore that it's a late-period Andy Warhol.

I think most American viewers know that Clarkson is an insufferable jackass in other media, and choose to ignore it because Top Gear is so much fun. It's easier in his case to ignore it because he's British, and he's not advocating specific changes to anything that governs the country I live in. Yes, global warming is…

You pretty much have to watch the first season of Jersey Shore to understand why it's appealing, or was appealing as the case may be. Then they were actually, believe it or not, quite charming. Even the Situation, who has morphed into some kind of avatar of creepiness, seemed like a personable guy, even if he was a…

The Berenstain Bears
Apparently the Berenstain Bears movie is coming out late this year.

The difference between good headphones and bad ones is much like the difference between good and bad wine. Most people who aren't idiots CAN tell the difference. However, just as the difference between a $50 bottle and a $100 is pretty slight for most, so is the difference between the $100 headphones and the $400…

A few years ago I ran through a bunch of old NES games like Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 on emulator, and the entire time I was just marveling at my 8-year-old self. I beat those games straight-up, no Game Genie. Was I some kind of robot? Did I really have that much time and so few friends? The answer to all those questions…

Ronnie doesn't love Sammi as much as he loves cocaine
Seriously, how fucking high was that dude? Something about the way he fell down but then popped right back up told me his giddiness was not coming from the watered-down drinks I'm sure they had at that trashy tourist-trap club they went to.