Name: Matt Springer
Dateline: Orlando, FL
Weblog: www.alertnerd.com [RSS]
Articles: 26
First Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Last Published: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Currently listing articles 26-1:
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Music Review: Ben Folds - Way to Normal— The latest from Ben Folds offers more gorgeous melodies, sharp lyrics, and pounding piano — oh, and some tabloid drama too.
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Music Review: Golden Smog - Stay Golden, Smog: The Best of Golden Smog— Incredible band, great music...just not the best way to hear Golden Smog.
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Movie Review: Cool Hand Luke (Deluxe Edition) — One of Paul Newman's defining roles proves an ideal way to remember the actor's great gifts.
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Six Grand: Ten Takeaways from Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008— One blogger's look inside Technorati's extensive report on the latest blogging stats and trends.
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DVD Review: The Presidents Collection— A massive, daunting, essential collection of documentaries covering the American presidency and the men who have occupied it.
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Music Review: Matthew Sweet - Sunshine Lies— The latest from a master of pure guitar pop delivers more of the amazing same, a little rough around the edges.
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Graphic Novel Review: Aqua Leung by Mark Andrew Smith and Paul Maybury— Another hero's journey, this one with style and wit to spare.
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Knee-Jerk Reactions to Palin as GOP VP Candidate— A die-hard Democrat weighs in on McCain's VP choice, and why it's a sound strategic move for the GOP.
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Music Review: Solomon Burke - Like a Fire— The soul great's latest record has a country twang but lacks vitality and energy.
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Website Review: Slacker Premium Radio— These may be the "glory days" for Internet radio.
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Music Review: Chris Difford - The Last Temptation of Chris— The new record from Squeeze's Difford is easy like Sunday morning.
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The Unlympics: Story Time— The Olympic Games become remarkably mundane — just another story for the hungry maw of the media.
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Graphic Novel Review: Zot! The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991 by Scott McCloud— Comics scholar and visionary Scott McCloud revisits his earliest fiction work--a tale of rayguns, teenagers, and Burger Kings in the rain.
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TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Week Last— Goodbye, So You Think You Can Dance. So I think I might cry. And skip the finale.
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Music Review: Black Kids - Partie Traumatic— Shimmery, swoony, tipsy pop music with more hooks than a bait shop.
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TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Week 8— The final performance show before the finale provides the perfect opportunity to handicap the remaining six dancers. Also, why Cat Deeley is wonderful.
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TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Week 7— Down to the dancing wire — the elite eight, and two more weeks of show.
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DVD Review: Comedy Central's TV Funhouse— Television comedy so wrong, and so very right.
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Comic Book Review: Star Trek - Assignment Earth by John Byrne— Kinda flat, and not as fun as it should be--you know, like any comic adaptation of a late-sixties TV show that never existed.
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Getting "Real" With So You Think You Can Dance— Reality TV: Only as "real" as you allow it to be.
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Book Review - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner— Anyone interested in the past, present, and future of our government and how it operates should find this an essential read.
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TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Week 3— The Internet's first-ever narcoleptic reviewer!
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TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Week 2— This week on So You Think You Can Dance: Leopard print earns its own constitutional ban.
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TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Week 1— Once more unto the dance-filled breach, my friends... once more. Season four of So You Think You Can Dance is underway.
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TV Review: Lost - "There's No Place Like Home" (Season Four Finale)— Lost wraps up its fourth season with an uncharacteristic whimper.
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Graphic Novel Review: The Brave and the Bold Vol. 1: The Lords of Luck by Mark Waid— Triple-X hero-on-hero action, featuring obscure characters from 40 to 50 years ago...hot and bothered yet?
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