You can be 25 minutes late to this movie and still have a great experience. This will be a great movie for basic cable for the same reason. The first part has very little to do with the rest of the movie. I was very proud that I found a way to sneak a three hour movie experience into my day. Good job me. Jukebox Superhero: 26 Songs About Superman
Superman has appeared in comics more or less continuously since 1938. This is how long that is: He's been famous since it was cool to use the phrase "Slap a Jap!" on the cover of a comic book. (Just kidding — that was never cool.) He's weathered asex-tape scandal, taken a wife and then lost her to a continuity reboot, died, and been reborn, with a mullet. He's outlived his creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and will undoubtedly outlive his current corporate paymasters, too.
If he were a real person, he'd be a leathery showbiz survivor — 75 years old, with a résumé split between massive hits and outrageous flops. Regardless of how Man of Steel does — and even with a Rotten Tomatoes score hovering around 59 percent as I write this, it still looks too big to fail — it won't define him for long. What define him are his endurance and his mutability. The most important Superman movie is whatever the next one is. Here's a look back at some of his more noteworthy appearances on screens small, large, and huge.
It's me posting on this blog about a guy who posted on another blog about following a party set up by a podcast/blog.
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Today's Photo: This is me officially making a big deal about the remodel happening at my parents house. It's a vessel sink. I know this because my mother mentions it every time I see her.
She wanted to talk about this more than her trip to Disneyland.
Why shouldn't I become some crazy grill master this summer? I could get a tiny grill for the back patio. Cook up some great cuts of meat. Really do a job on it. These people love to teach. I should just throw myself at their mercy and ask them what to eat. "What's good today, Billy?" Get on a first name basis with my local butcher. Norman Rockwell would be proud.
Film Crit Hulk On Star Trek TO BEST EXPLAIN WHY THIS MATTERS, LET’S GET HYPOTHETICAL: IF YOU (THE REAL YOU READING THIS NOW) WERE WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND SOMEONE CAME UP TO YOU AND YELLED, “Quick! I'm your long-lost brother you never knew you had! Someone's after me! We have to run!!!!" YOU WOULD BE COMPLETELY TAKEN OFF-GUARD, WOULDN'T YOU? NOW, WOULD YOU BE CURIOUS? WOULD IT BE CRAZY? WOULD IT BE EXCITING? SURE! BUT YOU WOULDN’T EXACTLY BE INVESTED. YOU WOULD BE SUSPICIOUS. YOU WOULD DISTANCE YOURSELF. MEANWHILE, IF YOUR ACTUAL BROTHER THAT YOU'VE KNOWN AND LOVED YOUR WHOLE LIFE SHOWED UP AND SAID “Quick! Someone's after me! We have to run!" YOU WOULD BE MUCH MORE INVESTED! IT’S YOUR BROTHER, AFTER ALL. BOTH ARE YOUR "BROTHERS" BUT ONE IS A PERSON WITH WHOM YOU HAVE A SHARED HISTORY AND LOVE. YOU HAVE ALL THE RELEVANT INFORMATION TO YOUR BOND THUS THERE WOULD BE A SUBSTANTIAL ROOTING INTEREST. AND BETWEEN THESE TWO SCENARIOS, THE MORE DRAMATIC AND COMPELLING SITUATION SHOULD BE OBVIOUS, RIGHT?
SO WHY DO SO MANY MODERN BLOCKBUSTERS OPT FOR THE FIRST OPTION?
Central District Wonder Coffee & Sports Bar is a coffee shop, Ethiopian restaurant, burger joint, sports bar, dessert stand, and karaoke venue in the Central District, where the Wonder Bread bakery used to be.
Regardless of where you play, you're eating tacos all day every day: breakfast tacos pre-first tee from Maudie's or Tacodeli; lunch tacos near UT at Torchy's. Then switch it up at dinner. You have two can't-miss destinations. First: Uchiko, which delivers sushi dishes as flamboyant and flavorful as those at any coastal restaurant. Second: Barley Swine, the kind of place that has the Drive soundtrack on the stereo and lets you buy $1 beers for the kitchen staff. The entire menu features no more than a dozen small plates on any given night, which means any party larger than two can order the complete nose-to-tail works of the place.
Pay your tab and head to Rainey Street, where a block of old houses have been converted into bars (like Banger's and Lustre Pearl) with living rooms, backyards, fire pits, and views of the city skyline.
The Kings Of Summer
Kids today have lost all their grit.
They would never do anything like this.
They wouldn't even have a thought to do something like this.
If Columbia City is already too hip for your tastes, head half a mile farther south to Hillman City, home to Spinnaker Bay Brewing, a rare woman-founded, -owned, and -run brewery and taproom.
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Track kids who broke a record got to literally break a record.
I had the idea, but the execution took it to another level.
From now until sometime in September I will be on the road, writing stories. Yes, this series has a catchy name, "Rembert Explains America," but that's only part of the story. Also, I don't enjoy thinking in the third person, so my actual approach to traversing the country takes me back to another great summer of my life.
The Summer of Yes
It's a simple philosophy that two friends and I invented during the summer of 2008. Newly 21, vaguely employed, and anticipating three thrilling months of independence, we established one rule for the summer: Say yes. To everything. While not perfect, and certainly not always carried out, even having the inclination to always be willing to try something was enough.
Five years have passed, but my approach to the summer still remains the same. The catch this time is that I'd like your help. For this series, a schedule and a route exist, certain stops will be made, and there are stories, long and short, fun and serious, weird and extremely weird, that I have wanted to tell for years, that will finally come to light in this three-month journey through the contiguous 48. But I don't know everything.
Slate Gateway Episodes - Gilmore Girls It’s nearly summer, the perfect time to catch up with a few of those shows everyone is always saying you should watch. But there are so many! How can you decide which to try? You need to find the gateway episode, one you can watch without any background knowledge and which will give you a real sense of the show—and whether you’ll like it. Whether or not you’re a sophomore in high school, I’d recommend starting with Episode 7 from Season 3, “They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They?” It has a bit of nearly every essential aspect of the series. There’s an important scene showing Rory working on the school newspaper at that fancy private school; her friendship with domineering classmate Paris Geller (Liza Weil) comes into play; a Friday night dinner scene with Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop), Lorelai’s mother—who hosts the weekly meals in an effort to gain some influence with her daughter and granddaughter—gives you a feel for the show’s family dynamics. Many of the key characters from the quirky, vibrant town Lorelai and Rory live in play a part in the episode. Most importantly, the episode showcases, as most episodes of Gilmore Girls do, fast-talking wit, clever cultural references, and general fun-loving ridiculousness.
Welcome to this new series, in which we anticipate one excellent matchup per week and diarize it to learn something about the art of pitching. In the process, we also discover meaningful things about ourselves and our lives through the lens of baseball. There is always a lesson at the end. Each pitchers' duel receives an official 1-10 rating on the Marichal-Spahn Scale, named after the greatest pitchers' duel ever.
Last year, Jeff Sullivan at FanGraphs wrote about Iwakuma's splitter, noting that it produced ground balls at an extremely high rate. That has remained true in 2013; the pitch yields a grounder on 79 percent of balls in play, the best of any splitter in the game. It's no surprise when you consider the excellent movement; the pitch tails in on righties at the fourth-best rate among all splitters and sinks at the second-best rate. Throw in a velocity of 86 mph — not far off from his fastball — and you can see why it's so epic. Lefties flail, righties get handcuffed.
Iwakuma goes to the splitter 20 percent of the time and rounds out his repertoire with a fastball (averaging 90.43 mph), curve, slider, and, per FanGraphs, the most valuable sinker in the game. That last pitch is a doozy; it's practically the same velocity as the four-seamer, but ends up five inches lower and three inches to the right.
Fun Fact: He was so good in the 2009 World Baseball Classic that the Japanese manager chose him over Yu Darvish to start the championship game. He made it into the eighth, holding South Korea to two runs, and left with the lead. Japan later won in extra innings.
Adam Scott and Jon Hamm Greatest Event In TV History
June 10, 2013 How Not To Be Alone Most of our communication technologies began as diminished substitutes for an impossible activity. We couldn’t always see one another face to face, so the telephone made it possible to keep in touch at a distance. One is not always home, so the answering machine made a kind of interaction possible without the person being near his phone. Online communication originated as a substitute for telephonic communication, which was considered, for whatever reasons, too burdensome or inconvenient. And then texting, which facilitated yet faster, and more mobile, messaging. These inventions were not created to be improvements upon face-to-face communication, but a declension of acceptable, if diminished, substitutes for it.
But then a funny thing happened: we began to prefer the diminished substitutes.
A few months ago I was on this Jet Blue flight from New York to Burbank. And I like Jet Blue, not just because of the prices. They have this terminal at JFK that I think is really nice. I think it might be the nicest terminal in the country although if you want to see some good airports you’ve got to go to a major city in another part of the world like Europe or Asia. They’re amazing airports. They’re incredible and quiet. You’re not being assaulted by all this music. I don’t know when it was decided we all need a soundtrack everywhere we go. I was just in the bathroom upstairs and there was a soundtrack accompanying me at the urinal, I don’t understand. So I’m getting comfortable in my seat. I spent the extra $60 to get the extra leg room so I’m trying to get comfortable and we make altitude. And there’s a guy on the other side of the aisle in front of me and he pulls out his iPad to start watching stuff. I’m curious to see what he’s going to watch – he’s a white guy in his mid-30s. And I begin to realize what he’s done is he’s loaded in half a dozen action sort of extravaganzas and he’s watching each of the action sequences – he’s skipping over all the dialogue and the narrative. This guy’s flight is going to be five and a half hours of just mayhem porn.
I get this wave of – not panic, it’s not like my heart started fluttering – but I had this sense of, am I going insane? Or is the world going insane – or both? Now I start with the circular thinking again. Maybe it’s me. Maybe it’s generational and I’m getting old, I’m in the back nine professionally. And maybe my 22-year-old daughter doesn’t feel this way at all. I should ask her. But then I think, no: Something is going on – something that can be measured is happening, and there has to be. When people are more outraged by the ambiguous ending of The Sopranos than some young girl being stoned to death, then there’s something wrong. We have people walking around who think the government stages these terrorist attacks. And anybody with a brain bigger than a walnut knows that our government is not nearly competent enough to stage a terrorist attack and then keep it a secret because, as we know, in this day and age you cannot keep a secret.
