Glenn McDonald

About Glenn McDonald

Glenn McDonald writes about popular culture from his home in lovely Chapel Hill, NC. His humor essays have been described as "grammatically consistent" and "remarkably frequent". He is editor of the Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me daily news quiz at NPR.org, and a freelance contributor to many quality radio programs, magazines, websites, and forbidden tomes of chthonic lore. He lives virtually at www.glenn-mcdonald.com.

Features

Multimedia

The World Remade: An Interview with the Creators of Alpha Omega

[26.Jun.08] :. Glenn McDonald talks to the creators of Alpha Omega about their new table top game, the challenge of game development, and that little Cloverfield mix-up.

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Columns

PopShots

Wii Will Rock You

[25.Jun.08] :. On the (Wii) golf course I am a multiracial, broad-shouldered, green-haired punk rock Adonis in a kilt.

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Zen and the Art of Cramming

[19.May.08] :. You will highlight and underline, memorize and prioritize. And you will not blink.

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Websurfing, Digital Shorts and Lateral Drift

[19.Mar.08] :. Premium beer + long winter months + national health care = fertile breeding ground for resourceful science.

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Dear Lost: Lose the Guns

[27.Feb.08] :. The gunplay in Lost shot past the ken of lessons-not-learned in Screenwriting 101 and blasted into an over-the-top Marx Brothers routine.

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PopShots

In Defense of the Popcorn Movie

[22.Jan.08] :. Wanna get me off my DVD-lovin' couch and into a movie theater? Then gimme the movies that make me feel like a 14-year-old.

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PopShots   Writers – Who Needs 'em? A Solution to the Writer's Strike

PopShots   Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas

PopShots   A Chronicle of Higher Education

PopShots   Archeological Discovery!

PopShots   Pop Culture in 17 Syllables

PopShots   Summer Must-Reads

PopShots   American Family Vacation

PopShots   An Ugly Trend in Filmmakers

PopShots   Nobody Likes a Quitter

PopShots   Send/Receive: The Instantly Regretted E-Mail

PopShots   Gadgets Gone Wild

PopShots   If You Can't Say Something Nice...

PopShots   The Situational Ethicist

PopShots   Kids' TV: A Vast Stygian Wasteland

PopShots   When Harry Googled Sally

PopShots   Discovery: Internet!

PopShots   The Lighter Side of Artificial Intelligence

PopShots   Snakes, Planes and the Triumph of Ironic Appreciation

PopShots   The Trouble with (Net)Time Travel

PopShots   You Almost Saw It TV

PopShots   Love the Sport, Not the Sports Star

PopShots   The Movie Blurb Game

PopShots   The (P)Art of the Prank

PopShots   SupraDeluxe Interactive Reader Edition

PopShots   All I Want for Christmas...

PopShots   Jung and the Restless

PopShots   The Underrated/Overrated List

PopShots   Friendless, Hostile, and Afraid of Soil Erosion

PopShots   The Last Action Hero

PopShots   We Came! We Game! Get Used to It!

PopShots   Grand Theft Autoerotic

PopShots   I Don't Feel Tardy

PopShots   Impending Drastic Inevitables

PopShots   Discovery: Hollywood!

PopShots   Orthodontia: A Generation Laments

Reviews

DVDs

Al Franken - God Spoke (2005)

[24.Apr.07] :. Franken is a smart and engaging companion, pleasant enough to be around for an hour-and-a-half.

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DVDs

Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven: First Annual Camp Out Live

[22.Feb.07] :. Adequately filmed, badly edited, and indifferently packaged, this DVD is still a goldmine for hardcore fans

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DVDs

Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End

[15.Aug.06] :. With Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End, the duo once again showcase their ability to update and reframe old-school magic with lateral thinking and hipster showmanship.

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DVDs

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

[25.Jul.06] :. Historians and pulp comic fans knew their story, but most didn't. The enduring image of the affable outlaws was born in this classic 1969 film. That the story is fairly true to life is even more remarkable.

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Books

San Francisco Noir by Peter Maravelis

[6.Dec.05] :. Out there on the foggy edge on the continent, with its outlaw history, mad riot of architecture and strangely cold sun, San Francisco casts some long, weird shadows.

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TV   Master Blasters

Books   MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from The Jim Henson Company by Neil Ga

TV   Lost

 
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