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Most successful actors fall into a niche: George Clooney playing the charmer; Clint Eastwood playing the tough guy; Clive Owen playing Clive Owen. In a world as competitive as Hollywood, you’ve gotta stick with what works.
And yet, take a look at what James McAvoy has portrayed so far in his relatively short career:

Hey, meet me by the tree of magical enchantment, and bring your lvl 6 mage!
What?
Oh hi, I didn’t see you there.  I was just totally divorcing myself from reality in a bid to escape my pathetic existence.  No big deal!
TBH, I’m not all about the vidya games.  I’ve sort of had this problem since my [...]

Yeah, I see something! Seats!
Choo Choo! New trains are coming into town. And no one is going to be happy about it. At first there was a rise in subway fare with promises of more and new trains to reduce delays on subway platforms. Well, that nice little promise is turning out to be a [...]

“Can I get one ticket for the 3:15 Pineapple Express, please.”
That’s right folks, just one ticket. No date, no friends, no relatives just me… and about two hundred anonymous people.
Sitting through Pineapple Express by myself wasn’t my first solo-movie going experience, nor was it even the first time I realized that I enjoy venturing to [...]

I will never, ever own a Scion. I know nothing about cars; I do know that Scions are clunky and probably vegan. But I might be found behind one of these mild wheelers, playing Guitar Hero through the trunk and wearing a Scion screen printed tee.

Scion has been working extra hard with its [...]

Apparently this surfaced back in March and I’m just now reading it: KFC is now serving grilled chicken?
Louisville-based KFC, a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc., hopes grilled chicken will lure back health-conscious consumers who dropped fried chicken from their diets, or cut back on indulging.
When are fast-food chains going to realize that they have NO [...]

So nerd culture is on the rise. Look at half of the posts on BODB - they are pretty frickin’ nerdy. And that’s not an insult, because this is the coolest website the web has ever seen! Anyways, nerdom and geekery tend to be focused on their main audience, men (or are they boys?) [...]

When I was in London last semester, my roommate and I tried to experience the local colour by watching as many British viral videos as we could. Kersal Massive was always good for a laugh and everyone loves Old Gregg, but no video inspired as much after-the-fact quoting as this one:

Maybe it was our latent [...]

I get it, you’re good at jumping. OK, you can swim really fast. Cool times. Except, not really.
I’m so fucking sick of the Olympics. Every two years, athletes from every nook and cranny of the planet and the corporate sponsors looking to impregnate them with brand image babies get hitched in [...]

This has been nagging at me for a few years.
In a great way! I am obsessed with dysfunctional families. The other losers [sic] here at BoDB will probably post a lot more on the subject of 19th cent authors’ parents, with rebuttals and everything, so let me just get on with it: