February 2012
22 posts
Brotel California: My Unpopular Opinions
By Broncosaurus
If you don’t say ‘pfft! What?!’ to any of these things, maybe call me and we’ll hang out.
If however, you, reader, are anything like just about every person that I know, then you will probably drop a ‘pfft! What?!’at some point while reading this. Because this is a disgusting confession of my most crotchety feelings.
1. Paul is the Worst...
Why Step Up 2: The Streets is better than......
By Zizzly Bear
When your family lives in New Jersey and you don’t own a car you have to take the NJ Transit to visit them. The Zizzly sleuth lives in a small commuter town near Princeton University and from Penn Station it takes about 45 minutes to an hour-fifteen to get there depending on whether or not I catch the express. I’ve ridden boats, planes, cars, horses, elephants and my Golden...
It's So Different Here: Knives, Everywhere
By Ryceps
Knives have played a surprisingly large role in my life. I can think of several important milestones punctuated (no pun) with the presence of blades. For instance, once I was finally the age of purchasing Christmas gifts for my parents, my first present for my chef of a mother was a German-made Henckel paring knife- handy for finesse work with fruit and fish. My morning of the last...
Brotel California: Such a Useful Guidebook: Sports...
By Broncosaurus
Obviously, there was a great deal that I failed to cover in my previous installment of this fucking excellent travel guide, so I thought I’d pick her up again and offer you plenty more awesome tiiiiips! Mostly about sports.
1. Fenway Park
You might think I’m being cliche with this one, but I straight up could not even care less, because Fenway is an incredible...
WatchI guess Funny Or Die started reading my letters…
“Building fire as listening to my studios”
– Anonymous 13 year old boys Facebook status
Why Step Up 2 The Streets is Better Than... 2008
By Zizzly Bear
Happy Valentine’s Day, ladies and germophobes. Some people don’t like VDay and that’s understandable. We shouldn’t make them feel they are any less special than we are. Some people like hearing it, but to be honest it wasn’t for you either. I’m saying it out loud as the sentiment I hold in my heart for my girlfriend, L-Boogie. Also for my mom who always left me a small...
Grate Expectations: The Future is Imminent
By DeafandTexas
The present we live in is not the future that was imagined for us 100 years ago. But are we worse off for that? If you made a list of predictions of the future from the last century, we’ve got a lot of the good stuff: better medicine, handheld devices that can tell us just about anything we want to know, we’re closer to a global understanding of humanity. And let’s not forget...
LinkedIn: An expose
By The Weekend Guy
There’s always been something about LinkedIn that creeped me out. Maybe because it’s been gathering strength over the last five years in a much quieter fashion than Twitter or Facebook has, maybe because I know absolutely nothing about it and like all cavemen I fear the unknown, but in any case, there I feared to tread. That said, I have been impressed for years with the...
It's So Different Here: No Duckboats on the...
By Ryceps
A lot of people might not guess this, but the second most popular sport in Turkey is basketball. Because of this, I find a minute smattering of Celtics scarves and hats scattered around the city of Istanbul, and when I see one on the metro, I go out of my way to make sure that this person has some idea of who they are supporting. Thus far, in my God-awful Turkish, I get a few words out...
Brotel California: Such a Useful Guidebook!
By Broncosaurus
One thing that I’m pretty sure everybody probably is into is my unsolicited advice on domestic travel. So here is some!
These are, for my money, the best places there are to go in this country (missing from this list? Anything located in the dozen or so states to which I have not been. Also missing is anything in Kansas because that state is the worst).
1. Bramwell,...
I'm Not Here to make friends: Thomas Jefferson...
By Handsome Sam
Recently I was sent an article about how over the last thirty years the US constitution has stopped being the predominant model for other countries when drafting their own constitution.
Link here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html?_r=1&src=tp&smid=fb-share
It’s a good article and I think it makes...
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Ink Master, eh?
By The Weekend Guy
So, from the executive producers of NY Ink, and Miami Ink, and Dog the Bounty Hunter, we have the latest entry in a seemingly endless parade of reality-show competitions where each week, some diminishing number of personality disorders squawk loudly at each other for forty minutes over a score that would make John Williams blush, and at the end one of them is forced to...
Brotel California: My Ever-Growing Grown Up To-Do...
By Broncosaurus
I’ve done my ‘best’ to cram a whole lot of adulting into the three years that have passed since graduating from college. I’m always doing grown up shit like registering vehicles and cleaning my rice cooker, and yet it doesn’t seem to be doing anything in terms of transforming me from an irresponsible duckling into a beautiful salaried swan. For...
Why Step Up 2 The Streets is better than......
By Zizzly Bear
SPOILER ALERT: If you are still behind on Downton like most everyone else is, or if you’re one of those “people” who haven’t yet started watching there may be in this post facts and statements that could herein dampen your Downton viewing experience. Friends don’t let friends miss the next big thing.
When you think about the question of cultural superiority as hard as I have,...
“truth is your realllyyy cute and i txt you sometimes…uhh you went out with...”
– Random 15 year old girl’s Facebook status
Grate Expectations: Getting Caught in the Net
By DeafandTexas
When the internet was deemed the “world wide web” in 1990*, I wonder if they had any sense of how apropos the name would become. I remember a time in my life when I thought whatever you wanted, you could find on the internet. Need an iguana on roller skates wearing a Kareem Abdul Jabar jersey? The internet has it. I thought this when I was a young lad, so let’s call that sixth...
RE: The United States has conquered the world, get...
By Charles in Manchester, UK
In his last article, Handsome Sam, being overwhelmed by the hate he sometimes gets as an American abroad, shares his opinion about how the world just needs to accept the fact that American culture has the biggest market-share. But in doing this he seems to be taking a cynical position, leaving us with nothing but a ‘this is reality so accept it and move...
January 2012
31 posts
It's So Different Here: Bigger than Rhode Island
By Ryceps
Many of you are city dwellers. Good for you. I was raised in central Massachusetts a five minute walk from a dairy farm that produces some of the tastiest ice cream on this side of the Leominster/Fitchburg line. I am just kidding; all they have in ghetto Fitchburg are those Spanish limbes iced treats which, in fairness, are pretty tasty. For me, however, Istanbul is the first city in...
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I'm Not Here to Make Friends: The United States...
By Handsome Sam
So after several months of living abroad I’ve found that when people discover I hail from the good ‘ole US of A the first thing they want to talk to me about is just how terrible America is. They like to point out that we as a nation are a predominantly ignorant people. That we don’t know where Switzerland is on a map; that we’re self-important and that we actively decide to...
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Brotel California: Weird Sandwiches and the...
By: Broncosaurus
One time some bro posed to me the fairly common hypothetical ‘if you could only have one food the rest of your life what would it be?’ and without even having to think about it, I said sandwiches. I was then told that my answer was unacceptably open ended and that I had better try again. I don’t remember what the stakes were or why it was so important that I really nail down a...
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Today is a great day for The Ivester...
My Dear Readers,
It has been over a year now since my words hit your computer screens, and what a year it has been. We have had our ups and downs, months without entries and weeks with two too many. But throughout 2011, I have had the privilege of regaling you with anecdotes about my battles with Wilford Brimley, conspiracy theories about the French and their affinity for Will Ferrell, and...
“the cowboyz coach justt cussed on tv idoit”
– Anonymous 13 year old boy’s Facebook status
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Sure, let the French make 'Anchorman' and it'll...
Before we get into this, if you haven’t seen The Artist, and intend on doing so, it is my duty to warn you that there are spoilers in this entry.
For those of you who have chosen to read on, I advise that you read this entry while sitting down, as the scandal that I have discovered may cause some dizziness and will leave you feeling nauseas and light headed.
Are you sitting down yet?
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“I bet you the super bowl will be just like 2007 hay Brady need some tissues...”
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Anonymous 13 year old boy’s Facebook status
It’s a dookie kind of morning in NYC.
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Gonna go hit the gym. Great song to get your pump...
The 12 year old Ivan presents: Top ten movies of...
Tis the Oscar season.
Now that 2011 has come to a close, the film critics of America and abroad have started releasing their top ten lists to the public. While films like Melancholia and Tree of Life have received praise, some might say these films do not resonate with a specific demographic. Tween boys.
For tween boys, there is no voice. No one to express gratitude to those who have mastered...
“Good style, to me, is unseen style. It is style that is felt.”
– Sydney Lumet