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Author Archives: Joe Sapien
How to apologize: a primer from Tiger Woods
There’s a sexy “downward dog” joke somewhere in all of this, and I just can’t seem to find it.
Posted in Current Affairs, humor, north america, sports Tagged elin nordgren, golf, tiger woods 1 Comment
What’s wrong with action movies? A case study
Is it even legal to hit an elderly person in a chicken suit?
Posted in Entertainment, humor, movies Tagged iron man, iron man 2, mickey rourke, sam raimi, sherlock holmes, spider-man, tobey maguire, topher grace Leave a comment
Me & myself: the majestic (?) possibilities of getting your own replica
I feel I'm the sort of goon that would enjoy riding a two-seater bicycle with myself. I really would.
Duncan Jones’ “Moon”: most definitive review of all time
I liked this movie the way I dig white guys who play the trumpet and pretty girls who roll their own cigarettes.
Posted in Arts & Literature, Entertainment, movies, science fiction Tagged duncan jones, sam rockwell Leave a comment
“Twilight”: captain’s log
If you’re turned into a vampire as a teenager, are you doomed to suffer awkward erections for the rest of eternity?
Posted in Entertainment, fantasy, movies Tagged kirsten stewart, robert pattinson, twilight 6 Comments
I was Zen about the Kanye West thing. You should have been too.
“Finally, a song so annoying it’ll make our enemies just use their weapons of mass destruction on themselves!”
On Joe Jackson’s awesome parenting, tacky mourners and musical genius
The whole affair is sad, but in a way that’s different from the one the media has been using to wring ratings out of their flipper-clapping public.
Banned from Wikipedia: a story in pictures
I’d like to show you a few of the changes I submitted to Wikipedia; not to worry, they were all quickly rejected, and were shortly followed by a ban from editing Wikipedia entries ever again.
Sexy movies that make you want to stab yourself
Picture, if you will, an emaciated heroin addict making out with a peacock in drag. Throw in a cameo by loud, hammy Ben Affleck and you have… well, something.
“Up in the Air”: post-awards season meditation