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"\n\n Aaron Sorkin. Wins screenwriting Oscar for Facebook movie. Nails self-aware walk-and-talk cameo on 30 Rock. Pulls off Moneyball for the big screen. A colossus.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Adam Scott/Paul Rudd/Jon Hamm \"Handsome Funny Guy\" Axis, The. You can't hate. [See fig. 1.3]\n\n Alec Baldwin's Twitter Feed. @AlecBaldwin Good. Now Chris Christie and I can hang out.\n\n @AlecBaldwin Road work in NY is awful. Roads suck. Better roads in Anguilla than NY.\n\n @AlecBaldwin Vote for Chynna Phillips on Dancing With The Stars!!! To vote for Chynna via phone: call 1-800-868-3404.\n\n Arrested Development, The Announced Return of. Another season! A movie! Ambivalence from Michael Cera in re: both!\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Attack the Block. High-Bro Criterion Collection Pick, UK Edition. Like a John Carpenter flick set in a London slum. In most alien-invasion movies, the teens run from the monsters. In this one, they run at them. With bats.2\n\n Bellflower. High-Bro Criterion Collection Pick, Ultra-Indie3 Edition. Bromance of the year. Two buds in seedy L.A. share love of Mad Max, build a flamethrower/monster car, make poor romantic choices with bad girls.\n\n Bon Iver. May: sad genius. August: Phil Collins. [See fig. 1.4]\n\n Bridesmaids. Funny movie, with funny women in it! Note to high-bros: Enjoying it does not retroactively confer a women's-studies degree from Smith.\n\n Charlie Day. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia hero stole Horrible Bosses from Jasons Sudeikis and Bateman. For a good time, search \"Charlie Day Loves to Yell\" on NYMag.com.\n\n Community, The Nonstop Metaness Spoofiness of. The top three episodes:\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n 1) The one where a paintball fight turns into a classic-Westerns mash-up.\n\n 2) The one that spoofs GoodFellas with the sale of illegal chicken fingers.\n\n 3) The one where they build a diorama of them building a diorama. Christ.\n\n Das Racist. Pronounced Das as in dastardly, not Das as in H&amp;amp;#xE4;agen-Dazs. If you get it wrong, you are racist.\n\n Detroit Lions. High-bro NFL team of the year! Freakish offense + junkyard defense + an opportunity to wax sociological about the city's decay/redemption. [See fig. 2.3]\n\n Dixie Apatow Axis, The. A.k.a. Danny McBride, Jody Hill, and David Gordon Green: North Carolina gang whose credits include Eastbound Down, Your Highness, The Sitter... Spoiler: Someone is going to say \"fuck\" to a child.\n\n Drive. High-Bro Criterion Collection Pick, Slam-Fucking-Dunk Edition. Superstylized, powered by man-crush Ryan Gosling [see fig. 2.1], helmed by high-bro auteur (broteur?) Nicolas Winding Refn [see fig. 1.2], delivers all the savagery and automotive irresponsibility of a dozen dumber action flicks. Also pretty thoroughly awesome.4\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n\n\n 2. Plus: killer soundtrack!\n\n 3. Total budget: under $50,000. Looks like $50 million. Not shitting you.\n\n 4. Or total garbage! This movie has divided a nation (of dudes who argue intensely about this stuff).\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Emma Stone. Forever. [See fig. 2.1]\n\n Entourage. Oh yeah, that show ended. Remember?\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Explosions in the Sky, Mega-Wonky Music Writing About (Vol. 1). \"Social scientists, often negatively, suggest that we increasingly believe life is like a movie, and numerous technological advancements have turned life into a movie. This, however, is a positive development, and one of these technological advancements, finally, is Explosions in the Sky.\"\u2014Slate.com, June 1, 2011 5\n\n Fantasy Drafts (for Things That Aren't Sports). The high-bro obsession with ranking, quantifying, and trash-talking finds its fullest flower in the parlor game of joke drafts for reality-TV characters, members of Congress, celebrity chefs, etc. To be fair, all of these make more sense than fantasy hockey.\n\n Fatter Is Funnier, Feeling Very Strongly That. [See fig. 3.4]\n\n Friday Night Lights. Clear eyes, full hearts, stifled sobs: Here's to five years of throat lumps for people you hated in high school. (See also: Explosions in the Sky.) \n\n FX, Worshipping Pretty Much Every Show on. \n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Game of Thrones. (See also: Settlers of Catan.)\n\n George Clooney. Forever. [See fig. 2.4]\n\n GQ. Busted.\n\n Grantland.com. A collection of high-bro literary lions\u2014led by Bill \"the Sports Guy\" Simmons, Chuck \"the Guy Who Thinks You're Wrong About Radiohead Guy\" Klosterman, and Malcolm \"the Illustrative-Anecdote Guy\" Gladwell\u2014get deep about Ryan Reynolds, Turtle from Entourage, and the American League East. Plus: debates in which TV shows are slotted into tiers, novelistic treatments of poker [see fig. 2.2], and cryptoscientific discussions of the best deleted scenes in Almost Famous.6\n\n Ironic Retweeting Without Comment. How the high-bro rolls his eyes. RT @KhloeKardashian Sitting on the patio, asking why why why... RT @RussellCrowe Work out in the water tank, 45 mins, body movement 90 mins, body movement with weighted objects 60 mins.\n\n Isaiah Mustafa, Respecting. The Original Old Spice Guy\u2014R.I.P.7 An Oscar-worthy thirty seconds. Respect the work!\n\n It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. [See fig. 3.2]\n\n JWOWW, Defending the Hotness/Sanity Of. The high-bro's weak excuse for watching Jersey Shore.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Killing, The. Irrational exuberance after AMC mystery series has great premier episode, irrational Internet rage after cock-teasy no-resolution finale. [See fig. 1.4]\n\n Louie. Wanna infuriate a high-bro? Say something bad about it. We fucking dare you.\n\n Malcolm Gladwell. Immortalized this year as a synonym for penis in Nicholson Baker's smutacular sex novel House of Holes (high-bro Kindle download of the year).\n\n\n\n 5. Still more wonk: The essay also compares the band to Facebook and Ralph Waldo Emerson.\n\n 6. And don't forget footnotes!\n\n 7. Just kidding! He's fine and has a deal with NBC. Also, he's on a horse.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Margin Call. High-Bro Criterion Collection Pick, Occupy Wall Street Edition. Sub-Mamet, but only just, with Jeremy Irons picking delicious scenery out of his shark teeth. A Boiler Room for the Great Recession generation. Moneyball, the Movie. [See fig. 1.1]\n\n \"My Real Problem with Treme...,\" Declaring. \n\n \"...isn't how impossibly slow it is so much as the lack of musical authenticity.\"\n\n \"...is that there wasn't enough David Chang and Tom Colicchio this season.\"\n\n NBA Lockout, Trying to Care About the. \n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n NFL Lockout, Caring Way Way Too Much About the. \n\n Odd Future, Mega-Wonky Music Writing About (Vol. 2). \"Hip-hop has proved to be a less volatile form than liberation poetry, and its general disinclination to be useful\u2014to do something\u2014helps account for both its longevity and its lousy reputation among many of the people who might otherwise be expected to love it. Odd Future's heedlessness is a crucial part of the group's appeal.\" \u2014The New Yorker, May 23, 2011\n\n Red-Band Trailers. Web-only, rich in profanity, red-bands are how we discovered that Natalie Portman's ass was the true star of Your Highness and that David Fincher's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo might be his best serial-killer flick yet.8 [See fig. 1.2]\n\n Settlers of Catan. Risk meets The Sims meets Dungeons Dragons = the high-bro board game of the year. Classic Catanese jokes: \"We built this city on rock and wheat!\"\n\n Shia LaBeouf, Interviews with. \"The time I spent with Megan [Fox] was our own thing, and I think you can see the chemistry on-screen.... I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.\"\n\n Sons of Anarchy. Hamlet on a Harley. [See fig. 3.3]\n\n Tom Hardy. Your high-bromosexual crush of tomorrow.\n\n VORP. High-bro: knowing what this means. (It's a baseball sabermetric meaning \"value over replacement player.\") Ultra high-bro: using VORP to rank your friends.\n\n Waka Flocka Flame. \"I think he's way underrated as a rapper, actually.\"\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Warrior. High-Bro Criterion Collection Pick, Undeserved-Flop Edition. Especially when considered in relation to The Fighter. If forced to pick one working-class-brother-versus-working-class-brother fight flick, no contest. Tougher, less clich\u00E9d. Oh, and Tom Hardy would have Christian Bale tapping out in three seconds.\n\n Watch the Throne. Obviously. [See fig. 3.1]\n\n Wilfred. \"Remember when I told you a few weeks ago that you are a total pussy? Well, I just want to apologize for not emphasizing that enough.... Ryan, anger is like herpes\u2014you're not meant to keep it to yourself.\"\u2014a six-foot Aussie man in a dog costume9\n\n Zombie Auteurism. AMC's The Walking Dead gave the shuffling undead some TV prestige; Colson Whitehead's Zone One gave them literary cachet; Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) proved they can be vexingly effective legislators.\n\n Zooey Deschanel, Actress. Forever.\n\n Zooey Deschanel, Singer. Not much longer.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n\n\n 8. Even better: the Muppet movie's pitch-perfect spoof of it. Plus: Spoiler? Kinda?\n\n 9. Speaking of FX: Farewell, Terriers! See you in brilliant-but-canceled heaven!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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