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What Michael Thinks: You Oughta Listen to My Best of the Aughts
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Wednesday, July 22, 2009. You Oughta Listen to My Best of the Aughts. As the decade draws to a close, this music lover’s fancy turns to thoughts of best-of lists. Forgive me if I’m jumping the gun, but I just can’t imagine anything coming out in the next five months that will displace any of these from my Top 20 of the 2000s…. 20 “I Turn My Camera On” by Spoon (2005). 19 “Toxic” by Britney Spears (2004) —. 17 “What Ever Happened? Soaring, cinem...
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What Michael Thinks: July 2009
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Wednesday, July 22, 2009. You Oughta Listen to My Best of the Aughts. As the decade draws to a close, this music lover’s fancy turns to thoughts of best-of lists. Forgive me if I’m jumping the gun, but I just can’t imagine anything coming out in the next five months that will displace any of these from my Top 20 of the 2000s…. 20 “I Turn My Camera On” by Spoon (2005). 19 “Toxic” by Britney Spears (2004) —. 17 “What Ever Happened? Soaring, cinem...
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What Michael Thinks: Things That Make Me Feel Old
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Thursday, July 17, 2008. Things That Make Me. Having turned 33 recently, I’m constantly reminded of a line from the Pretenders’ “Middle of the Road” — I’m not the cat I used to be / I got a kid, I’m 33 baby! 8220;1999” by Prince, then:. A defiant hedonism in the face of an impending Reagan-induced nuclear apocalypse. And now:. Evokes a pathetic nostalgia for the year that brought us Kid Rock,. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. And the Y2K bug.
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What Michael Thinks: In Which I Predict the Demise of Pop Culture in the Year 2395
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Friday, April 04, 2008. In Which I Predict the Demise of Pop Culture in the Year 2395. Like a snake eating its own tail, pop culture feeds on itself. Until recently, this has been a good thing — it’s a natural recycling or mulching process that nourishes the soil in which our beloved pop grows. One obvious example is. Which has generated almost 400 episodes’ worth of amazing material by satirizing just about every movie. And work of music.
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What Michael Thinks: The world's greatest candy bar
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Wednesday, October 25, 2006. The world's greatest candy bar. My sitemeter just e-mailed to tell me that I am still getting an average of two visits a month to this blog! Noble visitors, whoever you may be, I owe it to you to post something more than once every six months. So here, for your delight and amusement, I present . the best candy bar. I asked Google, "What is the world’s greatest candy bar? Google, you are so right! Life at 7000 ft.
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What Michael Thinks: October 2006
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Wednesday, October 25, 2006. The world's greatest candy bar. My sitemeter just e-mailed to tell me that I am still getting an average of two visits a month to this blog! Noble visitors, whoever you may be, I owe it to you to post something more than once every six months. So here, for your delight and amusement, I present . the best candy bar. I asked Google, "What is the world’s greatest candy bar? Google, you are so right! Life at 7000 ft.
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What Michael Thinks: April 2008
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Friday, April 04, 2008. In Which I Predict the Demise of Pop Culture in the Year 2395. Like a snake eating its own tail, pop culture feeds on itself. Until recently, this has been a good thing — it’s a natural recycling or mulching process that nourishes the soil in which our beloved pop grows. One obvious example is. Which has generated almost 400 episodes’ worth of amazing material by satirizing just about every movie. And work of music.
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What Michael Thinks: Regarding Henry
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Monday, September 26, 2005. Watching a preview for the upcoming Al Pacino movie. Two for the Road. Last night, it dawned on me that we need a version of the television term " jump the shark. Just for actors. Pacino once made classics like. The Godfather, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon,. Now he churns out crap like. Gigli, The Recruit, S1m0ne. We need a term for a turnabout of such monumental proportions. I rest my case. Life at 7000 ft.
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What Michael Thinks: July 2008
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Illustrated entirely with Microsoft Paint. Old school, baby! Thursday, July 17, 2008. Things That Make Me. Having turned 33 recently, I’m constantly reminded of a line from the Pretenders’ “Middle of the Road” — I’m not the cat I used to be / I got a kid, I’m 33 baby! 8220;1999” by Prince, then:. A defiant hedonism in the face of an impending Reagan-induced nuclear apocalypse. And now:. Evokes a pathetic nostalgia for the year that brought us Kid Rock,. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. And the Y2K bug.
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