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FUNNY WOMEN #12: Destroying Angels, A How-To Guide
77%* of Americans say they believe in angels. That doesn’t mean we like them. Sure, they were cute–at first. Maybe you thought you’d never get tired of those sweet rosy faces and chubby behinds. But now…
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Endearing Wrecks
“Bloom’s characters, I’m happy to pronounce, are glorious, endearing wrecks. They are simultaneously loyal, petty, resentful, and compassionate. They are vain, horny, bullheaded, and brave. In their messy assemblage of traits they are new to us yet resemble everyone we’ve…
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Morning Coffee
Internet gold. (via @TheLincoln) The 200 best and worst jobs in the U.S. Actuary vs. Roustabout edition. A New York resident has recreated Rambo shot for shot in his 220 sq. ft. apartment. (via @mattsinger) A very literal website: Running…
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Morning Coffee
Childhood Trauma Soap: “Maybe if you smelled good your parents would love you.” Speaking of parents, is respect for elders universal in primates? (My completely unscientific answer? Not in punk primates!) Really fun Chinese snow sculptures. (via MeFi) We’re not…
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Morning Coffee
Going shopping for bananas in Spain? Thanks to an error by drug smugglers, you might end up with a whole lotta cocaine. Ice more your thing? Check out these photos from the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Speaking…
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China Created a Small Black Hole and We Bombed the Moon
Harper’s has a condensed, slightly humorous (not funny haha) and downright offputting review of 2009. From “Scientists in San Diego made a robot head study itself in a mirror until it learned to smile” to learning that the actual Man…
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Morning Coffee
Like wasting time and looking at photos? Meet Tag Galaxy, “the Internet crack of the moment.” Not silly enough? Try Hats of Meat on for size. Enough funny, time for science: we’ve discovered a “giant planet with the density of…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/4-1/10
This week in San Francisco: Jason Meyers’ new book, “The Mission” is released in the Haight, Jose Arenas and Phillip Hua encourage you to choose your own adventure at the opening of their show American Pastiche, and Improv Everywhere encourages…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #17
THAT PICTURE FRAME MODEL ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing that picture frame model.
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Notable New York, This Week 1/04-1/10
This week in New York The New York Times’s Arts and Leisure Weekend features Natalie Portman, Jeff Bridges, and Jimmy Fallon, Sweetgrass opens at the Film Forum, Carol Sklenicka discusses Raymond Carver, the films of Joyce Weiland screen at Light…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #18
I shouldn’t smoke in bed? Look out that window, Doug. Is that a Russian flag hanging on my flagpole? No, it’s not. It’s a U-S-of-God-blessed-A flag. When those beautiful stars and stripes fall to a hammer and sickle, that’s when…