2013 Academy Awards

Posted on February 27, 2013 by metrospirit

Best, Worst and FLLRRRGGHHARPPH If you’re like me, you watched the Oscars this past Sunday night. Also, if you’re like me, you’re just home from work, fiercely downing a pint of Hopalicious to try and erase the image of a…

Quick and Dirty

Posted on February 20, 2013 by metrospirit

The Second Amendment What with the rash of senseless, completely preventable murders sweeping the country for the past few years — preventable by stricter regulatory measures, mind you, not by turning every elementary school into Reba McIntire’s basement from “Tremors”…

Craft Beer and the Social Animal

Posted on February 13, 2013 by metrospirit

Communities are made up of weird, weird people Communities are a funny thing. By their very nature, they are both natural and artificial constructions as, on the one hand, they stem from our inherent need to congregate with other like-minded…

White Noise

Posted on February 6, 2013 by metrospirit

Beware of misdirection from… well, basically, everyone As per usual, a lot of stuff happened this past week in the arena of banshees and retardation we know as national politics. Thanks to inter- and intra-party squabbling, an entitled conservative base…

Three Reasons You Guys Are Screwed

Posted on January 30, 2013 by metrospirit

The stupid things southern politicians say and do This column is usually not directly related to Georgia, per se. The most tenuous connection I have to your state, besides the fact that I lived there for almost 18 years, is…

MMA

Posted on January 23, 2013 by metrospirit

It should stand for Mixed Monopoly Arts In my piece on “Django Unchained” a couple of weeks ago, I wrote a little bit about the disconnect that can exist between the outlets and objects of one’s personal enjoyment, as opposed…

Lost in Translation

Posted on January 16, 2013 by metrospirit

Guns and guv’mint The dialogue — or if we’re being frank, shouting match — that’s occurred over the last decade and intensified with the recent shootings in Colorado, Wisconsin and Connecticut is kind of like the low-level, street-corner cocaine of…

“Django Unchained”

Posted on January 9, 2013 by metrospirit

A review as a segue into a plea for responsible adult behavior In writing this, I run a great risk of coming across as bafflingly, incomprehensibly stupid. Of course there are greater risks than this, but we can only…

The Top Somethings of 2012

Posted on January 2, 2013 by metrospirit

Proof positive that it is impossible for me to take my own advice Last week, I ran a column detailing three stories to ignore if you wanted to roll in the New Year with your sanity fully intact. This week,…

Starting 2013 Off Right

Posted on December 26, 2012 by metrospirit

Three Stories to Ignore Pieces like this one tend to start off with the phrase “by the time you read this,” and there’s a reason for that. See, there’s already a considerable chasm of time between when I write this…