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The Complete A-to-Z 2011 High-Bro Almanac*

Today: A through C

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.

Adam Scott/Paul Rudd/Jon Hamm “Handsome Funny Guy” Axis, The. You can’t hate.

Alec Baldwin’s Twitter Feed.

@AlecBaldwin Good. Now Chris Christie and I can hang out.
@AlecBaldwin Road work in NY is awful. Roads suck. Better roads in Anguilla than NY.
@AlecBaldwin Vote for Chynna Phillips on Dancing With The Stars!!! To vote for Chynna via phone: call 1-800-868-3404.

Arrested Development, The Announced Return of. Another season! A movie! Ambivalence from Michael Cera in re: both!

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

Bellflower. High-Bro Criterion Collection Pick, Ultra-IndieEdition. 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.

Bon Iver. May: sad genius. August: Phil Collins. 

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.

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.

Community, The Nonstop Metaness Spoofiness of. The top three episodes:

1) The one where a paintball fight turns into a classic-Westerns mash-up.

2) The one that spoofs GoodFellas with the sale of illegal chicken fingers.

3) The one where they build a diorama of them building a diorama. Christ.

Click here for GQ contributor David Roth’s complete almanac.

* Spoofing antiquated reference materials = high-bro¹

1. Dude! A footnote on an asterisk! Totally high-bro!

 2. Plus: killer soundtrack!