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this is the most insane advertising campaign i’ve ever seen: kevin garnett cast as a king arthur, wearing an abstracted celtics jersey, and “questing” for gatorade. but in order to find this “holy g” he must face kareem abdul jabbar (as the wizard “tim”) and other alice-in-wonderland type pop culture insanity.
i don’t even know what [...]

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In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?
a tradition begun with thomas paine (aka t-paine) and continued through the glory of the onion 2.0 wherein they begin creating youtube-like clips. well done, american satire, you always find a way through social, cultural, legal, and even technological changes to stay cynical [...]

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Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
but i do think i know these people.
WELL.

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lots of construction going on at brown this year. it’s actually kinda ridiculous. not only does the swimming team have to use a temporary “aquatics bubble,” not only is most of the pembroke campus still boxed off with construction scrim, but j. walter wilson, the still-under-construction “student resource building” is starting to develop a ghost [...]

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before boing boing picks it up, i’d just like to share this quirky story with you all.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7629433.stm

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it’s time for me to come to grips with myself. it’s time for me to admit it to myself, i want to be a yuppie.
yep, that’s a right a goddamn yuppie.
i’m not talking about a moderate yuppie. i am not talking a semi or a psuedo yuppie. not someone who kinda lives in a gentrifying [...]

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i frickin’ love tina fey. and here’s why: she’s wicked f!@#in’ funny.
and she’s a chick.
and she’s kinda got the sexy librarian thing going on. a little bit.
not really.
but really, she’s wicked funny.

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omg. OMG. O.M.F-ing.G.
matt stone and trey parker have done it again. as the creators and directors of south park, these two gents have seen, made, and manufactured more than a lion’s share (which i’ve always assumed means alot) of controversy. but almost all of that (their work with scientology and mormonism being notable exceptions) pale [...]

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one question: who the hell would drink this?
besides hipsters that is. and idiots.

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also fresh from youtube land, is this short clip from an epic Chapelle Show skit I caught the other day. it was part of a series on secretly racist famous animals. what really makes this skit work tho, is chapelle wearing some outrageous hat, and talking with a lisp as a cigarette dangles in his [...]

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