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Taco Bell
True story: When I visited Seoul for the first time in November of 2011, one of the first meals I sought out was Taco Bell in Itaewon — the expat district filled with American soldiers (so yes, it’s...
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The LeBron/Paul George Dap In Game 1 of East Finals
The Playoffs have ended for almost a week now and yes, I am officially bored. While I’ve blogged about the Finals — a beautiful series played at the highest level — here two or three times already,...
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Magna Carta Holy Grail’s Opener…
…and not much else. Man, that Jay. Magna Carta Holy Grail starts strong and then fizzles with a bunch of fillers — not atypical of Jay’s records, really — including yet another lackluster teamup with...
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Black Skinhead
When Kanye West unveiled on Saturday Night Live the first single of his recently released album, Yeezus, my first reaction was: “What is this Marilyn Manson shit?” The song has since grown on me....
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Kanye’s 2010 SNL Performance
For nearly four decades, music performances on Saturday Night Live followed a set template: Grand Central station backdrop, with one or two spotlights. All that changed in 2010 when Kanye West took...
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Paul Pierce’s Boston Career
I’ve been meaning to blog about this but I’ve been busy/lazy. Still, this post needs to be done. I’ll do this quick, in one seating. Let’s see how long it’ll take. When news broke that Paul Pierce and...
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The Dark Knight Returns
I happened to be up and on Twitter when it happened: Warner Brothers officially announced the long rumored, long anticipated Batman/Superman teamup movie at Comic Con. Twitter exploded around 7am Hong...
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Rocky’s Training Sequences
This. All six of them. About a year ago today, I took a bus from NYC to Philly by myself, jogged up the steps, took this photo, ate a Philly cheesesteak, then hopped back on the bus back to NYC. Whole...
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Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Ending
I am aware that, whether from the viewpoint of a film critic, filmmaker, storyteller, or sophisticated movie fan, Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a bad movie. It exists solely as a nucleus/anchor off which...
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Diversity in Fashion: “Asian chicks only, no Asian dudes”
Although there is still a pretty significant white/black divide in real America — as recent headlines in New York and Ferguson have attested to — there is a movement afoot among the new generation of...
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