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What I Do Every Week, Pinky: End-of-the-Year-Retrospective-Column Time!

Cue up the “Throne Room & End Title” track from A New Hope, sports fans (everything’s better to the sounds of John Williams). Can I get a “what what”?! Shh. No need to disrupt class in your excitement. Unless you’re going for a triumphant jump to a ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  3 Jun 2008
Related Topics: John Williams,  Hanukkah,  Google Inc.

What I Do Every Week, Pinky: Creepy movie theaters do not inspire movie magic

Well, it’s come and it’s gone, ladies and jelly-spoons. After years and years of fanboydom, fedora-searching and pretend-whipping, I finally got to sit in a movie theater and enjoy an Indiana Jones film. There are few things better than seeing ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  28 May 2008
Related Topics: Harrison Ford,  Steven Spielberg,  State Street,  Ice Cube

What I Do Every Week, Pinky: Ideal dorm room OU’s Ark of the Covenant

All right, True Believers, it’s that time again. Whip out your measuring tapes, get a pen and paper and get ready to do some floor space equations: That’s right, sports fans, Spring Quarter, which by all accounts is a time of backstabbing, ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  14 May 2008
Related Topics: La-Z-Boy

What I Do Every Week, Pinky: Free comics create rounded education

As many of my loyal readers are sure to know (and many of my casual readers should know), last Saturday was Free Comic Book Day. Yes, sports fans. There is a nationwide holiday involving comic books in all their awesomeness and glory. So as I sit here, ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  8 May 2008
Related Topics: Adolf Hitler

New athletics to take the field

It’s that time of year, folks. The leaves are returning to the trees, the temperature is pretty consistently above 70 degrees, and there are innumerable parties with names in the format of “blank-fest” at which you can get completely rocked in every ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  1 May 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

What I do every week, Pinky: Detective Nick hunts for DVD

The tales of it have been spoken in the backstreets and the alleyways, the offices and the factories, the dining halls and the dormitories. The hushed tones, the subdued urgency of the speech; this is not something to be spoken of in mixed company, ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  23 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Vincent Price,  Salma Hayek,  Jesse Owens,  David Caruso

What I Do Every Week, Pinky: Broken acoustic guitars must go out in glory

In the immortal words of Don Vito Corleone: “Look how they massacred my boy.” By “my boy,” I of course mean my acoustic guitar. For those of you who have not yet been informed, my guitar has indeed gone the way of the world. Now, I’m left with a ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  16 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Sylvester Stallone,  Pete Townshend,  Kurt Cobain,  Paul Stanley,  Jimi Hendrix

Fighting flab? Be battle-ready

It occurred to me last week (and some of you may be shocked at how long it has taken me to notice) that I could stand to lose a little weight, get in a little better shape. Lose the gut. I mean, if Marky Mark can live down the Funky Bunch, I can get ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  10 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Bruce Springsteen,  Isaac Hayes

Spring break spent with bodies, broken TV

Well, readers, I’ve had my much-needed two-week vacation, and now it’s time for me to take off my Vacationer Pants and put my Columnist Suspenders back on. Don’t ask how the suspenders attach if I’m not wearing pants (hint: it involves quantum ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  3 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Laurence Fishburne,  Paul McCartney

What I Do Every Week, Pinky: ‘Behind every successful author is a failed musician’

I have a dream. And depending on which day I have this dream, I’m either rocking a fountain pen — or a quill, Harry Potter style — in a journal that contains the secret map to the Valley of the Crescent Moon and the Grail itself; sitting at an old ...

From NICK PHILPOTT, The Ohio University Post,  13 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Harry Potter,  Eric Clapton,  Pete Townshend,  Eddie Van Halen,  Buddy Guy

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