Archive for December, 2009

My Area Of Expertise, Such As It Were

Posted on December 31, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Iron Man, The Dark Knight, movies | Leave a Comment

Matt Yglesias on the best and worst comic book movies of the decade. The top two are pretty indisputable, but I think Yglesias oversells Iron Man at the expense of The Dark Knight. The former is certainly as rewatchable as Yglesias claims; I think I’ve put on the DVD as background noise four or five [...]

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Incontrovertible Truth Of The Day

Posted on December 16, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under The Wire, television | Leave a Comment

Any professional critic who writes an article or enters into a public discussion about the best television shows of the decade and does not ultimately put The Wire at the top of his or her list is an idiot.

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“Rolling Over In Her Grave” Seems Like An Understatement For How Katharine Graham Is Metaphorically Reacting

Posted on December 10, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under The Washington Post, the media | Leave a Comment

Can the Kaplan Test Prep company please just put the Post out of its misery now? At the point where unpaid high school interns are apparently the only editors over there, it’s time to cut everyone’s losses and move on.

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