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Don’t Buy: Cartoon Characters With Attitude

Readers, there are many times in life where you will find yourself presented with a total information overload. The next one minute and 49 seconds will be like that for you:

Where can we even begin to reckon with this? It’s best to start by eliminating the obvious. I’m not going to tread the well-worn path [...]

Buy: Close-Ups

Jim Emerson, editor of RogerEbert.com and proprietor of the wonderful film blog Scanners, has been re-uploading his video essays to a new server and in the process bringing them to my mind after a long absence. His best so far is this “free association dream sequence” from October 2007 centered around the theme of close-ups:

close-up [...]

Buy Or Don’t Buy: Domestic Violence

(I’m probably going to sound like one of those lame men’s rights groups in this post, but try to imagine me looking more like (:-/ and less like >:-o when you picture me reading it aloud.)
I’m going to assume that everyone knows the Tiger Woods story right now. If you don’t, read this right here. [...]

Buy: Celebrities Attributing “Celebrities”

It’s time to call attention to celebrities’ hard work. They write poetry, tweet their every thought and sing about stuff just for us! It just isn’t right to ignore them.  Tributes, roasts and impersonations seem so passe and impersonal. The newest and best way to recognize their creative work is by having other celebrities present [...]

Don’t Buy: Kanye Memes

I’ve been very busy lately, so I’ve had no choice but to have today’s post ghostwritten by a Foppish Victorian Dandy with a prejudice against gypsies. My apologies for the oversight.
Heavens! The events of recent days have proven to me most distressful! Lest you be IGNORANT, I shall tell the tale:
A young Gibson girl of [...]

Buy: Playing The Beatles Backwards

It was a nice surprise that this week turned out to be the week of Beatlestravaganza, when everyone took a break from talking about things we disagree on (mostly health care with fantasy football a close second) to talk about one thing we all agree on (The Beatles.)
But luckily, even with the canonical Best Band [...]

Buy: This Submission to I Can Has Hot Dog

They’re making a sequel to the cat cheezburger book. It’s with dogs.

Right??

Buy: This Random Peeps vs. Period Test

How cool is this Peeps v. Always absorption test?

Now that is raw, hands-on journalism.

Buy: Point Break

Sorry, for the short posts. Really busy! Enjoy this!
This was made for mean magazine. Called cine-mashes features a bunch of different “mashes” with classics.
It might be the best parody of point break I’ve ever seen. Features some of Human Giant (Ansari and Huebel) and some of Reno 911 (Grant and Lennon). Gotta love Huebel’s Busey!
Only [...]

Don’t Buy: Pennsylvanians

It used to be that you could always count on Pennsylvanians to be pretty high-quality people. Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, Winfield Scott Hancock, John Oates, Andrew Bryniarski, Liza Weil: credits to the Keystone State all. (Sadly, for some reason the only people the Pennsylvania magic has not extended to are US Presidents.)
But two popular stories [...]