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View ArticleFetty Wap’s Charming, Impossible-to-Dismiss ‘Fetty Wap,’ in Six Notes
1. Fetty Wap says things in his songs, but the way he says them, all coated with cosmic goop and robo-charm, is almost always more consequential (more on this in the last section of this story). So,...
View ArticleThe 10 Old De Niros You Personally Confront on the Way to Heaven
Not very long ago, my wife and I were sitting in the front room pretending to watch TV but mostly just enjoying the silence. One of my sons, 8, walked into the room. He had been with his twin brother...
View ArticleWhich Movie Astronauts Would You Want to Be Stranded With in Outer Space?
Matt Damon’s The Martian opens wide today. And a very lazy but still accurate (and spoiler-less) summation of the movie is that it’s about “an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars for a long time and...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to Kate Winslet, ‘Titanic’ Murderer Still at Large
Kate Winslet turns 40 today. A good birthday present, since I hardly know her, is to just say happy birthday and wish her a good day, so let’s start with that: “Happy birthday, Kate. I hope you have a...
View ArticleThe Most Important Hip-Hop Song of 2004
What This Song Is About It’s a lifestyle song, stuffed fat with meta Houston rap references and slang. Why It’s Important It turned Houston into the epicenter of rap in the months following its...
View ArticleWhen Did Will Smith Stop Being Cool?
Will Smith released new music last week. It was the first time it’s happened in a decade, so it should have been a big thing and caused a ruckus. But it wasn’t. And it didn’t. In fact, of all the newsy...
View ArticleBond by the Numbers: Who Should Replace Daniel Craig as 007?
Daniel Craig, it would appear, does not want to be James Bond anymore. And that’s fine. He has done a very good job at it and deserves to be tired of the role. More than being fine, though, it’s fun,...
View ArticleBayou City’s Beloved: Houston’s 151 Professional Athletes, Ranked
Do you know who Charles James II is? I know who Charles James II is. I TV-met him in August, back when he became an underdog cult hero on Hard Knocks, a TV series on HBO that follows an NFL team...
View ArticleThe Vin Diesel Character Matrix
Just a few nights ago, I was out at a bar. Several people were there, and the conversation was good and lively and important. One of the people there was Alex Pappademas, who writes about things for...
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