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Author Archives: Sean Beaudoin
Dear Students of “We Are Not Interested in Your Advice” High
Sean Beaudoin is asked to write a letter to a graduating class of high school students and quickly discovers how impossible it is to give anyone advice, least of all an auditorium full of seventeen-year-olds. Continue reading
Ronald Reagan, The Greatest President Who Ever Lived
The naming of an airport wasn’t enough. President Reagan should be sainted. Sean Beaudoin offers two thousand words, a scene from St. Elmo’s Fire, plus the head of Rob Lowe to prove it. Continue reading
Point/Counterpoint: Sean Beaudoin vs. Greg Olear (Anniversary Edition)
Take a front row seat for this exciting, no-holds-barred game of style and wit, in which eight topics of the day are parsed, thrust, and parried as you listen to the intellectual steel clang! Continue reading
Posted in Point/Counterpoint
Tagged beaudoin, Capital punishment, FEAR, Henry Miller, Kerouac, Lee Ving, Olear, punk, Tom Cruise
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Walking Dead Season 3: The Cliffs Notes
The perfect Easter present, just what Lazarus asked for in his basket: The entire third season of The Walking Dead reduced down, like a fine demi-glace, into one succinct paragraph. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Easter, Glen, Herschel, Maggie, Merle, Norman Reedus, Rooker, The Baby, The Governor, the prison, The Walking Dead, World war z, zombie
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Point/Counterpoint: Sean Beaudoin vs. Joshua Mohr
Take a front row seat for this exciting, no-holds-barred game of style and wit, in which eight topics of the day are parsed, thrust, and parried as you listen to the intellectual steel clang! Continue reading
Posted in Point/Counterpoint
Tagged Axl Rose, Fight Song, Girls, Joshua Mohr, Lena Dunham, On The Road, Oprah, Sean Beaudoin, Slash, tacos, Termite Parade
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The 50 Greatest Names in Cinematic History
With a single click awaits the one Essential List that has yet to be compiled: the 50 Greatest Names in all of cinema history. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Charles Bronson, cinema, Clint Eastwood, great names, Ida Lupino, January Jones, Jimmy Cagney, movies, Rita Hayworth, Shia LaBeouf, Steve McQueen, The Hump Bogart, Veronica Lake
13 Comments
The Short Life and Long Death of a Zine
After breakdancing, but before the Internet, there were zines. Sean Beaudoin investigates the era of self-published fanzine culture, and his own doomed immersion within. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged APE, factsheet five, fanzines, JFK, letterman, stapler, Xerox, zines
5 Comments
The 12 Most Pointless Remakes Ever Remade
Wherein Sean Beaudoin posits that the truly horrible remake is, in fact, at the vanguard of a burgeoning movement of cutting-edge avant garde expression. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Chris Farley, Gus Van Sant, HGH, Hitchcock, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Caine, Showgirls, Sly Stallone, Spike Lee, Sylvester Stallone, Viagra
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Point/Counterpoint: Sean Beaudoin vs. Jess Walter
Take a front row seat for this exciting, no-holds-barred game of style and wit, in which eight topics of the day are parsed, thrust, and parried as you listen to the intellectual steel clang! Continue reading
The 12 Best People of 2012
Makes the 2011 list look like a bunch of pikers. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Glorial Allred, Obama, Paul Ryan, Payton Manning, Sheldon Adelson, Tom Ricks
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A Philosopher’s Holiday—Does a Certain Morning Even Exist?
Sean Beaudoin astonishes his friends and family by refuting cynicism and embracing Claus. Continue reading
Posted in Christmas
Tagged Christmas, Chuck Brown, existence, Linus, Peanuts, Santa, Spinoza
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Going Home
Sean Beaudoin attempts to ascribe a veneer of meaning to the events of last week. Continue reading