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15 Oct 2009 21:03

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U.S.: We bestow a blue ribbon on the Balloon Boy story. A modern classic.

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Simply put, you had it all. Between the incredibly random nature of your occurrence, the wall-to-wall media coverage, the likelihood of danger, the kid angle (must be emphasized), the reality TV angle, the waste of public resources, the rapt attention you gathered from the public, and the painless resolution that followed hours of panic, Balloon Boy story, you may be the best non-story in the history of news. Way to go, 24-hour news cycle, for giving us hilarity at the cost of actual news. You should be proud. SOURCE
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14 Oct 2009 22:30

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Culture: Here’s why Captain Lou Albano was a great cultural icon

  • Wild and crazy guy Albano is the weirdest guy to have cultural relevance in the 80s – saying a lot considering the pop stars of the era – but the edgy delivery of everything he was involved with, even an ad for a 900 wrestling hotline , sticks with you more than an Augustana song does.

  • Wild and crazy guy Albano is the weirdest guy to have cultural relevance in the 80s – saying a lot considering the pop stars of the era – but the edgy delivery of everything he was involved with, even an ad for a 900 wrestling hotline , sticks with you more than an Augustana song does.

  • Straight-talker Despite spending much of the late ’80s as a kiddie icon, he never lost his edge as a wrestler. In this anti-drug PSA (done in his Mario getup), he tells kids that if you use drugs, “you go to hell before you die.” Which is an awesome thing to say to impressionable kids.

  • Wild and crazy guy Albano is the weirdest guy to have cultural relevance in the 80s – saying a lot considering the pop stars of the era – but the edgy delivery of everything he was involved with, even an ad for a 900 wrestling hotline , sticks with you more than an Augustana song does.

  • Straight-talker Despite spending much of the late ’80s as a kiddie icon, he never lost his edge as a wrestler. In this anti-drug PSA (done in his Mario getup), he tells kids that if you use drugs, “you go to hell before you die.” Which is an awesome thing to say to impressionable kids.

  • Kitsch icon Around 2001, Albano was sucked into Animutation, a crude, Dadaist style of Flash animation that could be seen as the precursor of much of Adult Swim’s humor style. The vocal track is real – all the stuff happening around him was made up. And boy, is it awesome.

    Lou Albano
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14 Oct 2009 09:55

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Music: Bob Dylan’s “Christmas in the Heart”: Everything we imagined

  • Hearing Dylan tackle “Here Comes Santa Claus” with that voice of his is just unbelievable. You think he’s doing it ironically, but no, he’s doing it with the passion of a guy who can pull off that bizarre mustache he’s been rocking the last few years. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times gave this album no stars. That’s how bad it is.source
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13 Oct 2009 11:21

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Culture: Ducktales sounds funnier when it’s translated into Arabic

  • It’s bizarre to think, being kids of the ’80s, that cartoon theme songs came in anything but English, but they did; and they got translated into all sorts of bizarre languages. Like this Ducktales theme song redux, which sounds hilarious. Holy Taco as a bunch more lost-in-translation moments where this came from.source
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09 Oct 2009 23:07

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Culture: Marge Simpson porn fans rejoice thanks to creepy Playboy cover

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  • If you think she looks hot now, just wait until she starts talking in that sexy, nagging, bus driver voice which she’s perfected. Man, we can’t wait until some kid is just like, “Mommy, but I want a Playboy! The Simpsons are in it!”source
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07 Oct 2009 08:52

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Sports: Can’t touch this: M.C. Hammer helps a 49ers holdout

  • Ring the bell, school’s in sucka. San Francisco 49ers possible rookie Michael Crabtree still hasn’t signed, and we’re already in October. But he may have a killer negotiator, one who went bankrupt only to come back like a “Behind the Music” success story. M.C. Hammer, a friend of Crabtree’s agent, was (bizarrely) helping out. If we were the 49ers, we’d double our offer for Crabtree. source
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29 Sep 2009 22:58

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Tech: When you turn on this urn, it runs a really old version of Unix

A nerd on Slashdot honored his nerdy brother by putting his remains in a Sun SPARCstation computer, which is obscure, nerdy, and awesome. source
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29 Sep 2009 11:22

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Offbeat: Show-off: Some guy managed to grow pears shaped like babies

  • If this guy didn’t do it, someone was going to. So, is eating one of these pears kinda like cannibalism?source
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28 Sep 2009 09:58

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Offbeat: President Barack Obama: A beacon for facial consistency

  • Dude is such a good politician that he can keep the same pose no matter who he’s standing with. This, friends, is an awesomely goofy video.source
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27 Sep 2009 11:47

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Offbeat: Warning to Aussies: Vegemite has been upgraded to iSnack 2.0

  • It’s been difficult to contain my excitement; I actually leapt out of my chair when I heard the news. To think that I could go down in Australia’s history is overwhelming.
  • West Australian Web designer Dean Robbins • Describing his initial reaction to finding out that his name for the upgraded version of Vegemite, iSnack 2.0, had been accepted. Purists will probably have a hard time accepting the fact that the yeast-inflected snack has been upgraded using cream cheese to offset the original flavor, but that’s business for ya. • source
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