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Hamilton Nolan · 09/17/14 04:36PM
At the End of the Day, Here Is a Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Supercut
Rich Juzwiak · 09/10/14 12:25PMAt the end of the day, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta's third season finale aired this week. At the end of the day, the people on this show say, "At the end of the day" a lot. At the end of the day, I counted over 140 utterances. At the end of the day, "at the end of the day" is supposed to notate definitive statements and sentiments. At the end of the day, here is all you really need to know about this show and its characters:
Don Draper Weighs in on Ferguson: "Bad Situation"
Leah Finnegan · 08/20/14 10:09AMHere's Basically Every Pro-Gun Cliché That Exists On The Internet
Adam Weinstein · 05/27/14 09:30AM56 Things Writers Have Predicted 2014 Will Be "the Year of"
Sarah Hedgecock · 01/01/14 09:30AM61 Things 2013 Was "the Year of"
Sarah Hedgecock · 12/31/13 04:00PMAll 226 Clichés Uttered by Katy Perry on Her New Album, Listed
Rich Juzwiak · 10/24/13 04:33PMKaty Perry is one of the most bankable contemporary pop singers—"Roar," the first single from her new album Prism, became her eighth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August. Prism is expected to sell about 300,000 copies its first week in stores. It is a dreadful album, way too concerned with preserving Perry's star than using said star to push sonically. It is also dreadful because Perry has absolutely nothing to say.
Vanity Fair Is as Relevant as Ever
Hamilton Nolan · 07/30/13 11:56AM50 Things 2013 Will Be 'the Year of'
Max Read · 12/31/12 06:00PMThe new year is upon us, and now that we've determined that 2012 was the year of "meh" (or was it the year of the slug?), we need to figure out where we're going next. What will 2013 be the year of — peace? Justice? Mobile social marketing? Here, 50 articles make the case for 2013 being the year of...
58 Things 2012 Was 'the Year of'
Max Read · 12/31/12 12:30PMHero Portlanders Live to Tell of Journey Through America's Savage South
Hamilton Nolan · 01/16/12 05:35PMRemember how last week we were talking about the "post-pointless" era of journalism, in which any and all experiences no matter how banal can be packaged as journeys of discovery and wonder, and sold to superficially pop-intellectual sites like Slate and Salon as something that appears just meaningful enough for a bored office worker with an advanced degree to justify wasting ten minutes of her life reading it, only to be left with the mental equivalent of the junk food hangover we get from feasting on an entire bag of unadorned Tostitos™ brand white corn chips?
Bill Keller Writes Provocative Media Column From 1997
Hamilton Nolan · 03/10/11 03:34PMWhen we learned that New York Times editor Bill Keller was getting his very own column in the New York Times Magazine, our keen media instinct—honed by years of reading the Twitter and writing juvenile jokes on the internet while never doing any "real reporting"—told us that sooner or later, this column would become an institutional embarrassment. Spoiler: sooner!
Another Alleged Russian Spy Caught, Deported from US
Jeff Neumann · 07/14/10 05:08AMFive and a Half Cliches in 121 Words
Max Read · 05/05/10 12:25AMThe New York Times' on The Ultimate Brooklyn Cliches: Banned from the Co-op
Foster Kamer · 10/25/09 03:00PMCould Sexxxy Nudes Help PETA?
Hamilton Nolan · 09/10/09 04:27PML.E.S. Celebudogs in Twee Clash
Hamilton Nolan · 04/15/09 09:47AMBritish Geraldo Meets British Tony Soprano
Hamilton Nolan · 07/18/08 10:01AMCan there ever be too many British gangster movies? The answer is no. So we fully support the new documentary A Very British Gangster, which is being released in the US today. Not only has the filmmaker, Donal McIntyre, been described as "the British answer to Geraldo Rivera," but the subject of the film, Manchester crime boss Dominic Noonan (pictured), has been compared to Tony Soprano, and his English thugs are accused of having bad teeth and being reminiscent of Trainspotting. It's satisfying to see every single English crime journalism cliche in one place. But the film itself sounds entertaining; anything starring a guy who gets his point across by chopping off the heads of rivals' pets can't be all boring. The trailer is after the jump.
The Wind Beneath Our Wings: Poetry Clichés Will Get You Published
Sheila · 03/17/08 01:10PMAugust literary magazine Virginia Quarterly Review's blog did a survey, discovering that cliché-ridden poetry submissions get published more often than not. They thought they were above that, avoiding clichés like the plague, but alas: "This was supposed to be a blog entry about how authors submit poetry to us covering clichéd topics that there's just no way we're going to print. But then I did the math... and found that precisely the opposite is true." Let's take a look at the cliché-roundup, by percentage: