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The High Low’s Top 3 of The First 3 Weeks of 2020

Posted on January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Who said “best of” lists were just for the end of the year? What about the best of 3 weeks into something? While the Golden

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Tagged angela kinsey, ben mandelker, best of, bravo tv, cool.lodge, cultural commentary, jenna fischer, office ladies, oliver willies, ronnie karam, stevie yeaman, think piece, watch what crappens
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How Millenials Are Being Advertised To

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

How Advertisers are using our debt, big dreams, fear of failure, and incredible productivity against us “I have failed.” “By all commercial, capitalistic standards I

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Tagged ads, advertising, amazon, commercials, cultural commentary, microsoft, think piece, visa
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Dear Dad, and 2019, I Made You A Playlist for Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2019January 7, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Playlist on Spotify here Christmas Eve post. Simple enough. I figured most people would be too busy to read this and I’d be too busy

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Tagged best of 2019, cultural critique, lady gaga, playlist, pop culture, social commentary, think piece, tine turner
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In Defense Of: The Office After Michael Scott

Posted on November 12, 2019January 7, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Also, I Try To Convince Myself I’m Not a Sociopath for Liking Robert California Steve Carell never won an Emmy for Michael Scott. Jerry Seinfeld

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Tagged angela, cultural commentary, jason alexander, kevin, larry david, michael scott, pop culture, robert california, ryan, seinfeld, steve carell, the office, think piece
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NotStalgia Ultra: The Fear of Having Already Missed Out

Posted on October 1, 2019August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Identity and The Surprising Things Friday Night Lights, Blink-182, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Richard Linklater’s Adaptation of a Play Have In Common

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Tagged blink-182, cultural commentary, dammit, grunge music, identity, suburbia, the perks of being a wallflower, think piece
Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles

How Booksmart Successfully Subverts Just-World Theory

Posted on September 24, 2019September 23, 2019 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

warning: spoilers abound Life isn’t fair. And it’s not unfair in a fair way either. Which is to say, it’s not just that bad people

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Tagged arrested development, booksmart, cultural commentary, just world theory, the final countdown, think piece
Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to Medium, Pop Culture Diary

How Super Mario World Prepared Me For The Crushing Realities of Adulthood

Posted on September 10, 2019August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Or, more accurately, How I Ignored The Lessons Super Mario World Tried to Teach Me Until Adulthood Wouldn’t Let Me Anymore 5th grade. On the

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Tagged bowser, cultural commentary, cultural critique, depression, luigi, mario, nintendo, princess, super mario world, the temptations, think piece, yoshi
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Alessia Cara Where the Fuck Were You When I Was In High School?

Posted on August 13, 2019August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Life before anti-social acceptance was full of DMX, self-loathing, and not having a word for FOMO Really though Alessia, where were you? In high school

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Why America – and the History Channel – Needs More American Pickers and Less Pawn Stars

Posted on July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

At my previous gym we had 2 TVs. The volumes on both were able to be turned up. This caused issues. Issues of competing broadcasts

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Tagged american pickers, ancient aliens, blog, critique, culturaly commentary, pawn stars, the history channel, think piece, thinkpiece, trump
Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles

The Best A Song Will Ever Get is When You Hear it on The Radio

Posted on July 8, 2019July 9, 2019 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Most of my hipster friends probably don’t listen to the radio. The reason for this is as much due to a subconscious scoffing at of

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Tagged brian fallon, cultural commentary, lou reed, radio, think piece, thinkpiece
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