Posted: March 26, 2009 at 4:21
So my plan last week was to fire up the way-back machine and do my thing with Peter Travers’ zero-star review of Bad Boys II, arguably the second greatest Henry Rollins movie of all time. I ran into a slight hitch when I realized that, for a movie he considers to be in the category [...]
Tags: Cool is always just out of Peter's Reach, I Hate Peter Travers, I love you man, It's always Peter who drops the ball, Journalism Commentary, Movies
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Posted: March 6, 2009 at 4:30
Apologies to my tens of fans who have been left with next to nothing to read for the past week or two. I’ve hit a bad run of Writer’s Block and have been unfairly ignoring the website for a while. But I’ll make it up to y’all with a daily double of IHPT fun. First [...]
Tags: I Hate Peter Travers, Journalism Commentary, Milk, Movies, Review, Sean Penn, Trying really hard to keep the gay jokes to a minimum
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Posted: February 17, 2009 at 12:32
Remember when I said that the magazine industry was going to be more secure than the newspaper industry? I’ve come across some shocking information that flies in the face of that assertion. I spent the better part of the weekend doing some extensive research, and my new conclusion is that there is no future for [...]
Tags: 2009 Swimsuit Issue, Anne V, Bar Rafaeli, Brooklyn Decker, Journalism Commentary, Julie Henderson, Kim Cloutier, Lucia Dvorska, Melissa Haro, Sports Illustrated
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Posted: January 30, 2009 at 2:32
Yeah, I read the Atlantic. It’s like the New Yorker without as much of the air of superiority. Still pretentious, but bearably so. It’s one of the few “intellectual” magazines that I can stand to read on a semi-regular basis. But before I start talking about this article, I just want to say a little [...]
Tags: Football, I really wish Hockey on TV was better, Journalism Commentary, Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, the Hardest Job in Football
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Posted: January 23, 2009 at 1:49
It’s time for another installment of “I Hate Peter Travers.” After going through The Wrestler last week. I kind of wanted to do a movie that I’d actually seen for a change. Unfortunately, I don’t get out to the movies that often, so no luck there. However, given that Peter Travers has done me the [...]
Tags: FJM Style, I Hate Peter Travers, Journalism Commentary, Movies, Rolling Stone, Slumdog Millionaire
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