The last weekend of real summer is here! Celebrate by sitting in front of your computer reading our best articles of the the week!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n MONDAY: <\/strong>Alex clearly had a case of the Mondays and started the week with an article about forgettable movies<\/a>. He reminds us\u00a0why\u00a0we have\u00a0these meh-diocre films and how, despite their lack of classic status, they can be very enjoyable to watch. (Bonus activity: Look at the Sandra Bullock pictures and imagine trying to hate her, even if she killed your dog. Spoilers: you can’t.)<\/p>\n TUESDAY: <\/strong>James wrote an article about baseball in Canada<\/a>\u00a0and tries to negotiate his citizenship with his new-found appreciation for America’s national pastime. His media education may have caused to him to connect Canada’s decision for public radio in the 30s\u00a0to why the Jays are a non-issue to the rest of the American League East. This article\u00a0lit up the\u00a0Interwebz so hard that it is now #1 hit on Google if you search “Canadian Baseball” and “public radio”!<\/p>\n WEDNESDAY: <\/strong>The Macguffin Men continue their takeover of pop culture criticism beyond movies with Alex’s recommendation<\/a> of the 2007 album Below the Heavens.<\/p>\n THURSDAY:<\/strong> This week’s podcasts was the latest edition in our series of auteurcasts. This time we look at director Darren Aronofsky. It is part one<\/a> of 2 and we look at Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain. We also make a disproportionate amount of mustache jokes so even if you hate\u00a0those movies but love hearing about mustaches, you’ll be fine.<\/p>\n FRIDAY: <\/strong>Travis has made it out of the hospital after\u00a0his harsh MacGuffin Men initiation.\u00a0It wasn’t pretty but he survived watching every Police Academy movie in a row and is therefore able to continue contributing. This week he wrote a letter to his younger self <\/a>about hoarding CDs, the problems with analog media, how memories and pop culture get all\u00a0tangled up and what to do about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last weekend of real summer is here! Celebrate by sitting in front of your computer reading our best articles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[344],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themacguffinmen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}