Win Tickets to Grindhouse's Maniac
Thanks to Dan Halsted at Grindhouse Film Festival you can win two tickets to see 1980's sleazy gorefest Maniac this Saturday, January 14, 7:30 pm, at the Hollywood Theatre. Here's how you can win:...
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It's the Julian Assange Coloring Book!
Color him guilty, color him brilliant, color him like the Swedish flag: It's the Julian Assange coloring book! Here's intern Ginny Thayer's take: [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleNo Charge for Driver Who Accidentally Killed Toddler
Speaking of making kids safe on the road, KATU reports today that the District Attorney filed no charges against the elderly driver who crashed into three people at the intersection of North...
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Born This Way
A blogger invites gay men and lesbians to share "snapshots that capture them, innocently, showing the beginnings of their innate gay selves," and the stories behind those photos. The results are...
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Fergus and Geronimo - "Where the Walls Are Made of Grass" Video
I realize that Fergus and Geronimo have already been mentioned on the blog this week, but this video is too good not to post. Check out this fantastically literal, animated collage for the song "Where...
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Good Afternoon, Television!
In 1999, Mad Men's Christina "Joan" Hendricks posed for Playboy, and—JESUS CHRIST, CALM DOWN! She's not nude. Can you find her in the picture below? (HINT: She's not the clown.)via Martha Stewart hit...
View ArticleAng Lee Nearly Created a Giant Hulk Robot
For his ill-fated Hulk movie, director Ang Lee used computer generated imagery to create the Hulk. But did you know that he almost went with a giant robot Hulk, instead? Somebody should make a movie...
View ArticleToday in WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE ZODIAC'S ALL DIFFERENT NOW?!?
Okay, first they said Pluto wasn't a planet. Whatever, like I give a shit. But now they're saying I'M NOT A GEMINI ANYMORE?? From the Washington Post: Star signs were created by ancient Babylonians...
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Now Playing on a Billboard....in Tucson
Thank you, Reddit and Copyranter (the latter of which has personal knowledge of the Tucson billboard). [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Michael Chabon Weighs In on the Mark Twain Whitewashing Issue
Try and remember last week when that professor at Auburn University announced he was releasing an edition of Huckleberry Finn where the word "nigger" was replaced with "slave". He also, for the...
View ArticleParenthetical Girls - "The Common Touch" Video
Drowned in Sound has the premiere of this stylish new Parenthetical Girls video for "The Common Touch," which is on the second part of their limited-edition Privilege EP series. Directed by Guy Wagner...
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The New Red Fang Album Has a Title, a Cover, and a Release Date
That right there is the cover of the new Red Fang album, which (as we totally guessed correctly) is in fact going to be called Murder the Mountains. The album comes out on Relapse Records on April 12,...
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The New Red Fang Album Has a Title, a Cover, and a Release Date
That right there is the cover of the new Red Fang album, which (as we totally guessed correctly) is in fact going to be called Murder the Mountains. The album comes out on Relapse Records on April 12,...
View ArticleWhy I Love Bruce Springsteen Reason #498
(...this photo is #497). As found in the Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition set, here's Bruce and the E Street Band live at LA's Ahmanson Theatre in 1973, playing what is arguably one of the best...
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Cast The Mountain Goats on Law and Order: SVU
"Tell that to the judge, baby raper." In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these...
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Holy Half-Off, Batman!
It's a Martin Luther King Jr. Day sale at Cosmic Monkey, with 50 percent off back issues of comics! Plus, 25 percent off everything else! Plus, something intriguing called the $1 comic boxes of...
View ArticleGood Morning News!
Crisis in Tunisia! Shit is going crazy in the African country, with the president firing his cabinet and protestors demanding more freedoms. Who Wants Health Care?! No One! The GOP resumes their push...
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The Party Dress Book
New Yorker Mary Adams is known for her custom party dress collections—her clients include Amy Sedaris, who wrote the forward to The Party Dress Book, in which Adams lets spill some of her favorite...
View ArticleMeet the Absolute WORST MOM IN THE WORLD
Okay, so this TLC show Toddlers and Tiaras is often hilarious in a sick, fascinating sort of way. No problem there. But there's a motherfucking point when this shit isn't funny anymore. And in the...
View ArticleR.I.P. Trish Keenan
In a statement today, Warp records announced that Trish Keenan, singer for the dreamy electronic act Broadcast, has passed away. Yesterday, it was revealed that she had been hospitalized for...
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