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26 Aug 2009 23:05

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Politics: The A.V. Club provides critical analysis of the KFC Double Down

  • Well naturally it’s exceeded expectations: Not only is its design a blow against ‘the tyranny of the bun,’ it’s also the ultimate challenge to the rest of the fast-food industry to step up its game.
  • The Onion A.V. Club columnist Sean O’Neal • On our new favorite sandwich ever, the KFC Double Down. To us, it takes a high level of criticism for us to cover a story like this two days in a row, but Mr. O’Neal (yes, we called him Mr. O’Neal; We’re channeling our inner New York Times) is up to the task. O’Neal suggests that this sandwich is the fast food industry’s way of pushing through health care reform (or as O’Neal hilariously calls it, the “Reichstag fire of health care reform”). • source

09 Mar 2009 00:42

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Music, Politics: Pitchfork redesign: Uber-clean, no blue stuff overload anymore

The Onion A.V. Club wanted to do this with their redesign. But Pitchfork actually did it. It rules. source

14 Jan 2009 14:35

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Culture: The Onion A.V. Club redesign: Meh.

  • What we like The header font is a nice, cool slab serif, and you know how we feel about dotted lines here at ShortFormBlog. This is one of our favorite Web sites, and we want to see it do well, so we’ll visit it anyway, but … source
  • What we like The header font is a nice, cool slab serif, and you know how we feel about dotted lines here at ShortFormBlog. This is one of our favorite Web sites, and we want to see it do well, so we’ll visit it anyway, but …
  • What we don’t like Too much freakin’ white space in all the wrong spots. The previous design felt very efficient in its usage of white space and its bold use of images. Here, the images are smaller and less meaningful, the page is far too vertical, and it just feels like there’s a heck of a lot of wasted air. To put it simply, it feels unfinished. Agree, disagree? Leave a comment. source

09 Jan 2009 14:36

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Music: Instant gratification or big reward? Jay Reatard weighs in

  • A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it’s a lot more fulfilling.
  • Jay Reatard • in an interview with The Onion A.V. Club about the value of doing albums over singles; the punk rocker is known for doing both really well. • source