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0 The Challenge: Rivals II Preview

A new season of The Challenge, debuted this week.  Subtitled "Rivals II," this new season looks like it is going to be as awesome if not more awesomer than previous seasons.  The trailer for the season is amazing: Get More: The Challenge (Season 24), Full Episodes As TJ would say, the trailer killed it.  It's so intense.  Some big time quotes, "I hate this kid.  I hate the ground he walks on," "I just feel like some of these people here are just like absolutely pure evil" and "Let's just win this money and then we can go back to hating each other."  I'm so hyped for the season.  Big time on big time...

0 5 for Friday, June 21st

Another Friday and another 5 for Friday.  This 5 for Friday is happening on the first day of Summer and you couldn't ask for a nicer day in the Burgh.  So in honor of Summer here are the top 5  Will Smith (why Will Smith?  Because I think he's awesome.  So awesome that I sang Gettin' Jiggy Wit It in my high school English class to earn extra credit once) Summer movies of all-time.. 5.  Men in Black III... a solid rebound for the Men in Black franchise after the pretty bad Men in Black II.  Although, it loses points because Will Smith didn't sing a song for it.  Pit-Bull is no Will Smith and that song he...

0 5,000 Posts

The JDC has reached 5,000 posts, so I'd like to thank all of our loyal readers.  I'm not sure if 5,000 is a lot but it is better than 0 readers.  There is going to be lots of content coming straight at you including a review of Kanye's insane album, a ranking of the top conspiracy theories of all time and a long brewing essay on why Hipsters rule the world.  Also, if anyone has any requests on future posts, email me at jamiedixoncider@gmail.com.  Thanks again for all the reading! ...

0 5 for Friday, June 7

Another Friday means another 5 for Friday.  In honor of Lonely Island, the group with Andy Samberg that was behind all of the awesome SNL digital shorts, releasing another album this upcoming Tuesday, this 5 for Friday is the top 5 Lonely Island music videos.  Their performance of their new song Semicolon1 with Alanis Morissette is pretty decent. Highlights: Did I do that; Urkle. Yo Angela who's the boss; Merkle. A comma and a f&*king dot; semicolon. You acting all Macchio; Ralph. But I'll eat all you cats; Alf. A nice and ironic performance by the Lonely Island with a little help from Alanis Now onto the top 5... 5. Natalie's...

0 Big Time Reccomendation: DVR Jeopardy

What do you get when you combine the greatest TV game show with one of the greatest invention of modern times?  A perfect 15 minutes of entertainment.  When I first added Jeopardy to the DVR, I'm pretty sure my roommate thought, "Huh? Typical Marty. Adding pointless stuff to the DVR."  But even she will tell you how awesome DVR'ing Jeopardy is.  Seriously, everyone loves yelling out answers at home and everyone loves learning random facts.  I've probably been doing it for over 20 years since first starting with my Dad. Quick tip for you, if the category has something to do with American generals...

0 Breakdown: New Slaves and Black Skinheads

In case you missed it, Kanye West recently performed two songs off his new album at SNL.  With how much I love Kanye, I couldn't let two new songs be release without doing a breakdown.  Before I get to the breakdown, I have to say, his idea to premier New Slaves by broadcasting it on buildings across the world was so Big Time.  Who needs the media when you can create your own premier?  Now onto the actual songs. First, New Slaves... My momma was raised in an era when clean water was only served to the fairer skin You know Kanye doesn't care what the public thinks about him when he starts off one of his first singles off...

0 5 for Friday, Memorial Day Weekend

A new 5 for Friday... Are you just imagining a new post on JDC?  No, you aren't. Here we are with some brand new thoughts. Seriously, the lack of posts by me in the recent few weeks is pretty lame. I'm really going to try to get better.  Although, I think I've said that the last few sporadic posts on here. But if I keep on saying it, then it will come true one of these times right?  Now let's get onto the ever so random 5 thoughts from me. 1.  Bucco fever. I think I'm starting to get a case of Bucco fever. They keep winning.  Not sure how. But they do. This last homestand they hit about .200 and still ended up 8-2. That's...

0 Sorry for the Absence & Big Time Hype Rankings

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I ran into house buying hell the past couple weeks that ended up being a complete and utter time suck.  Just problems on problems on problems.  Bright side, I'm in my house and I have something to go on a really long and hopefully enjoyable rant.  That more detailed post about all of my trials and tribulations involving buying my house will be coming soon I promise.  But completely unrelated to house buying, I'm launching a new feature called Marty's Big Time Hype Rankings, the place where I tell you what upcoming things that I think are going to be mind blowing and...

0 5 for Friday, April 19th

Here's another 5 for Friday, coming straight at you from beautiful and rainy Shadyside... 1. Buying a house can really suck.  Last week, I said buying a house is expensive.  I forgot to leave out the part that it can really suck.  I learned on Wednesday that the super late appraisal didn't go well, which means I'm stuck scrambling for another mortgage.  And it also means that I might be homeless come May 1st.  Seriously, people didn't do their jobs and now I'm left in limbo and totally stressed out.  The sad part of the whole situation is that I purposely made closing in 60 days in order to avoid ever getting stressed...

1 Facebook is terrible

There is no good way to put it. Facebook has become an awful thing, an albatross around people's necks. Five years ago, Facebook was great. You could creep on people's spring break pictures, watch people have a meltdown in real time or see who got fat or bald (or both) since high school. But Facebook has changed. Now, you are bombarded with people sharing random nonsense that you don't care about. You see a million pictures of other people's babies (side note: I don't give a shit about your two month old, random person who I had class with 6 years ago, unless you are posing them in puerile pictures). People feel the need to air their dirty laundry...

0 5 for Friday, April the 12th

Seriously, this will be regular feature.  I just had to missed last Friday's because I was en route to a bachelor party in beautiful Kentucky that was filled with tons of beers, bros and bourbon.  Anyways excuses aside here are 5 random things racking my always random brain... 1.  Elysium is going to be the movie of the Summer.  In case you missed it, the trailer for Elysium dropped this week and it looks amazing: The movie is directed by Neil Blomkamp who directed District 9 a great movie that one day in the distant future will be mentioned in the best of movies discussion.  I'm also a fan of Matt Damon who is always...

0 The Accidental Horribleness of Accidental Racist

A song as ridiculous as Accidental Racist, deserves a special breakdown.   Sean: Tell me you saw the Brad Paisley/ L.L. Cool J song... Marty: All I can say is wow.  I can’t believe that this is an actual song.  It is bad on soooo many levels.  It is bad on an intelligence level, bad on a common sense level, bad on a this is nonsense level and most importantly bad on a musical level.   Sean: April Fool’s Day was a week ago. People pulled pranks, told tall tales and exaggerated things. I told one of my friends that I got engaged. Lindsay Lohan tweeted out (a day late, naturally) that she was pregnant. Those...

0 Pranks on Pranks on Pranks

Who doesn't love a good April Fools' Day prank?  I certainly love them.  I think my first April Fools' Day prank was a 6-year-old me putting Pop Rocks on my Grandfather's spaghetti.  He had no idea what hit him.  In honor of April Fools' Day, I've come up with a list of some of the best pranks on the web.  I feel as if I'm very well versed in most pranks on the web because I was once got in a Youtube Vortex where I probably spent 3 hours watching pranks.  In no particular order, here are some of my favorites: 1.  No one wants to wake up next to really freaky dude with a beard... 2.  Will she say yes? CollegeHumor's...

0 5 for Friday

I'm starting a new feature on the JDC, 5 random thoughts coming straight at you every Friday... 1.  Path might be pretty cool, but I'm not 100% sold on it. So I started using Path which is a Facebook alternative that limits you to around 150 friends.  The app on the iPhone is really slick and reminds me of BBM.  You can share locations, pictures, songs, thoughts and so on with your real friends and not that one person you randomly met as a friend of a friend of a friend that always posts the most annoying things.  It's nice that when I get a notification from the app it means that there is something that I actually want...

0 Yep... that sucked...

The joys of being a Pitt fan... But we will get them next year. As always Hail to Pitt. ...

2 March Loves Driving Pitt fans to Madness

Way back in November in one of my first blog posts, I predicted Pitt would make the Final Four based on the that Pitt had the following: 1. a veteran PG, 2. top freshman that were ready to make impacts, 3. Plenty of depth off the bench and 4. a coach that knows how to win.  Looking back I was pretty accurate cause Tray Woodall was Tray Woodall in a good way, Steven Adams was not quite lottery level but James Robinson was better than even I imagined, Pitt plays 10 deep although Trey Zeigler hasn't been who I thought he'd be and Dixon is Dixon in a Dixon way.  And contrary to what the seeding says, Pitt had a really good regular...

1 Iraq reflections

It's been 10 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq. I was a junior in college and my biggest concern in late 2002 and early 2003 was where was I going to go for Spring Break. I have always been aware of American foreign policy, but I generally have found myself to be indifferent (this applies to much of my life). I remember people talking about the war, vaguely, but my biggest concerns were with partying and studying. College can be a cocoon and part of the cocoon is a tendency to be very self absorbed. Rarely did you leave campus to venture out into the world. Everything you needed was in the self contained bubble. The one memory that sticks out...

0 Blogging update

So I  looking back over the past couple of weeks and blogging appears to have fallen by the wayside. With the Bachelor no longer on, a weekly staple has vanished. Additionally, with increasing demands of work combined with work guilt for writing non-work material on the clock, the only time to write is after hours. This can be difficult because the last thing I usually want to do after spending 8+ hours staring at a computer is to spend even more time staring at the computer. Finally, it's tough to write about something unless you are really interested in it. Writing about 6 year old movies is alright, but half the time I barely remember...

1 Best Movies of 2006

Back with yet another thrilling discussion of the top movies of a year in the 2000s.  As always, feel free to add to discussion in the comments below... Marty: For me, three movies standout for best of 2006.  Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth and The Departed.    All three are great in their own individual ways.  If I had to rank them, it would go like this: 3. Pan's Labryinth.  Guillermo del Toro created a fantastic fantasy world that was parallel to the real world.  Just top notch film making.  2. The Departed.  Scorsese + gangster movie = Always awesome.  Matt Damon undercover...