January 2010
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December 2009
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The Ten Best Films of 2009
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“The Hurt Locker”
“Funny People”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“District 9”
“Up”
“(500) Days of Summer”
“Avatar”
“Adventureland”
“Star Trek”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The Hurt Locker” was this year’s best film, by a wide gulf. Kathryn Bigelow’s film captured what no other Iraq war film has this decade. It gave us a glimpse of what it takes to be a hero in war. It gave us a...
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WatchWii Baseball.
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adam lambert is shitty.
(via bringtheruckuss)
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10 Things hipsters couldn't ruin in the '00s
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Somehow this beverage became inextricably linked with trucker hats and weasel mustaches when it came to hipster cliches, but let’s face it, there’s several perfectly good reasons to drink this stuff.
First off, it’s cheap, so you don’t have to be some kind of trust-fund twerp to get blitzed off of it. Secondly, it’s readily available, whether...
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“You can’t just look at the eight million jobs that America has lost since the recession began, because the nation needs to keep adding jobs — more than 100,000 a month — to keep up with a growing population. And that means that we need really big job gains, month after month, if we want to see America return to anything that feels like full employment.”
- New York Times’ Op-Ed...
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“A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast n’ bulbous. Got me?”
– Captain Beefheart: “Pachuco Cadaver” from Trout Mask Replica
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Twins send RHP Bonser to Red Sox →
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wintwins:
The Minnesota Twins have traded right-hander Boof Bonser to the Boston Red Sox for a player to be named later or cash.
One last time everybody…BOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFF!!
oh noooo, not boof!
This is excellent news. Boof is a bust. Dead weight…no pun intended.
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Goin’ out West - Tome Waits
For as...
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1979 - Live on Tour
Throughout the latter half of 1978 and the early months of 1979, Talking Heads continued to criss-cross their way across Europe and the U.S.A., surprising many audiences with the power of their live shows.
Recognizing that on stage the band tapped into an energy source that their records left unminded, Warner Brothers (Sire’s parent company) taped a Talking Heads show at the Agora in...
Man Throws Tomatoes at Palin at MOA →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
Bloomington police arrested a man for throwing two tomatoes at Sarah Palin at Mall of America Monday afternoon.
The tomatoes missed Palin by about ten feet. They bounced off the stage and hit two Bloomington police officers who were providing security.
This made my day.
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