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Tim Marchman
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Editor at Special Projects Desk

Stranger Things was like a grilled cheese, in a good way. Very few people think a grilled cheese is the best thing you can possibly get, but very few people don’t like a grilled cheese. I think making something enjoyable that lots of people think is pretty damn good, that pretty much no one really, really loves and Read more

If you’re not into our sports coverage, don’t read it; plenty of other things here to enjoy. Read more

I got so high with these nice people who picked me up while I was hitchhiking one time, and they played me some Phish, and I was like, “I feel the music ...” Read more

True story: One time I was at a UFC card and the DJ played a dubstep remix of “Bodies” by Drowning Pool. Read more

a) We’re curious about when we’ll get to read the next installment of GRRM’s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy saga, and the best thing about being reporters is that we get paid to rudely ask about things we’re curious about. We have zero interest in stressing our friend GRRM out, but do feel obliged to ask Read more

Deadspin will not only formally endorse Trump but adopt an institutional pro-Trump stance if he can deliver on this. Read more

We removed quite a few comments on this post; we don’t usually do that but it’s a very slow evening and several of these were rather mean-spirited. I would assume these are what our guy here was responding to. Read more

People read those stories like you wouldn’t believe! When we put up stuff that’s in the news no one clicks through, but when we put up four-year-old stories about baseball simulators, people run to read them. I have no idea why this is, but it works great by me; we have lots of great stories in the archive. Read more

I’m with Burneko here; Simmons just isn’t good at TV, and given that he’s been on TV for a looooong time, I don’t think it’s going to suddenly get better. Read more

Yes. BDP benefitted a lot from Scott La Rock dying and from addressing “socially conscious” themes if we’re being honest here, but the music doesn’t really hold up. Read more

Depends on your definition, but off the top of my head, Goodfellas, Le Cercle Rouge, Riffifi, Thief, Bob Le Flambeur, Pepe Le Moko, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Clockers, Mean Streets. Read more

Yeah, I mean, they’re great movies, but I don’t know that either one would be in my top 10 mob flicks, so I don’t really get why they show up in lists of the top 10 movies ever. Read more

Lyrics of Fury, The Symphony, Road To The Riches, Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos, or A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays, depending on the day. Read more