Category Archives: Baker Street
Don and Donna
BAKER STREET by Eric J Baker At 9 a.m. this past Friday, Facebook’s IPO was the most supercalifragilisticexpialidocious event ever, worth more than 100 Avengers movies and better than carrot cake on Fat Bitch Sunday. By noon, the whole thing … Continue reading
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A Tale That’s Too Shitty
BAKER STREET by Eric J Baker It was the best of times, it was the worst of… Hold on. My editor tells me that opening is taken already. That’s all right; I wasn’t married to it. The construction is passive … Continue reading
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Sidney Bag-o-Pucks
BAKER STREET by Eric J Baker The Pittsburgh Penguins, crowned by most sports writers as presumptive 2012 Stanley Cup Champions, were just smoked by the Philadelphia Flyers in the opening week of the NHL playoffs. Thus proving true the sports … Continue reading
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Giants, Goblins, and Girls Named Melanie
BAKER STREET by Eric J Baker Indie-rock’s elder statesmen They Might Be Giants put on a free concert in Princeton yesterday in honor of National Record Store Day, a concept I can get behind emotionally, if not rationally. After all, … Continue reading
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Scotty, I Need More Bass!
BAKER STREET by Eric J Baker Poor bass players. What’s it like to be invisible in plain sight? I liken the bass player in a rock band to Scotty on Star Trek. If Captain Kirk is the lead singer – … Continue reading
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A Week Late and a Titan Short
BAKER STREET | REVIEW by Eric J Baker When did B movies become 150-million-dollar epics? Wrath of the Titans has all the qualities of one (including the casting of semi-big stars in small parts to lend faux gravitas) but at … Continue reading
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The Great Spider Invasion
BAKER STREET by Eric J Baker I always crack up at Shaun of the Dead when Ed (Nick Frost) tries to kill a zombie by throwing an Electro record at it and Shaun (Simon Pegg) shouts, “Hey! That was the … Continue reading
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Ricky Retardo
BAKER STREET by Eric J Baker I was all excited to review the new Ashley Judd primetime drama, Missing, until I realized I’d actually have to watch it. Because how can a show about an ex-CIA agent turned MILF tracking … Continue reading
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