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An Obama '08 banner ad on the Something Awful Forums. Lovingly crafted by a goon. References Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.
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The American Heritage Dictionary, in a usage note below the definition of the word shall, uses more words than I’ve ever used to describe anything. I’m reprinting them here because I find this fascinating, in an odd mystery-solving sort of way. I’m a linguistic Jessica Fletcher.
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Just saw Knocked Up tonight; it's a Judd Apatow movie, so I was predestined to love it, but the hours since have left me with two unforeseen questions:
- Is there a more brilliant, fueled-by-insanity comedic duo than Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen? Their scenes together in The 40-Year-Old Virgin hinted at the answer, but this time around there's no room ( Read more... )
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I’m going to jump back into the LJ pool by blatantly ganking this meme from jervo. I fall into a prosaic torpor whenever I try to write about what’s going on right now in my life, but I seem to have no trouble waxing wistful about high school - the ennui, the arrogant detachment, the sheer meh-ness of it all.
Who was your best friend?
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Error /views/admintools/datasourceconfiguration/SIMDataSourceConfiguration.mxml:23
The component mx.containers.FormHeading is not a container and may not have visual children.
Emphasis mine. Fuck you, Macromedia Adobe Flex.
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U2 hails from Ireland, Green Day from California, the Goo Goo Dolls from Buffalo. New Orleans artists like Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis get to watch the game from the stands. It warms my heart and soul to learn that this is how you re-christen a city, apparently: with the same plastic production values that give us intermission at the ( Read more... ) -
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Dear God - Idiocracy was hilarious. It’s not a great movie, to be sure, but it’s a brilliant movie. It lags at times, and the narration is a crutch, but it’s the first movie in a long time that has been so ambitious in creating a world and actually making it believable. (Well, not believable, but you know what I mean.) It’s probably not playing ( Read more... )
