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Gmail ad bar: Dog DNA Mixed Breed Test Easy to Use Dog DNA Swab Kit - Makes a great gift for your dog.

How would a dog appreciate this in any way? Either they are confused about the definition of the word "gift" or about the word "dog."
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This is sort of a fascinating idea: fans of an artist pledge for bits of things like downloads, signed CDs, posters, private concerts and those pledges not only finance the production of a new album but also certain charitable projects.


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Bright Eyes aside, what is up with the bands from there? And their cute catchiness?

New find: Talking Mountain and not just for their song "Baseball Stars," that gives shout outs to the Evil Dead franchise:

well, the evil dead is really great ( Read more... )

You know the ones I mean -- those Jeopardy people familiar with the minutiae of, like, the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674) who have never heard of Miley Cyrus.

For the record, I have heard of Miley Cyrus. Dude, that Hannah Montana branded stuff is everywhere.However, yesterday I came face to face with the fact that I'm actually pretty out of ( Read more... )

I can take a fourth job doing editorial work for an online writing lab, right? Right?!

I'll just stop sleeping, like John Kinsella, only, like, less douchey because I won't compel people to step outside their job descriptions by making them locate and secure houses on my behalf. Also:

In 2006, Kinsella published a memoir entitled Fast, Loose ( Read more... )

Not that I understand the intricacies of D&D, but I find that I understand enough to find the following exchange between Patton Oswalt and the hosts of The Sound of Young America HI-larious. Must be one of those pop culture osmosis things. Weird.

That must have just been like a dream for you with that glorious collision of the nerd world and the ( Read more... )

Oh Mike Doughty. You are a redhead with a really interesting voice. And you have a new album out. So far, "The Book of Love" is my favorite track (The book of love is long and boring/No one can lift the damn thing/It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancing/But I love it when you read to me/You can read me anything), ( Read more... )

I mean, clearly Bitch magazine was designed specifically with me in mind. "A Feminist Response to Pop Culture" could not actually be more pointed toward two of the interests near and dear to my heart.

And yet -- and yet --

From the first time I picked up a copy, I found that Bitch in fact falls into that category of consumer-targeted pop ( Read more... )

Is anyone else kind of grossed out by the spam recipe links that come up at the top of the page when you're in gmail's spam folder? I know it's supposed to be all puckish and cute, and it is -- until I start thinking about spam, the memory of which does not bring back fond memories of camping (unlike, say, thoughts of corned beef hash and General ( Read more... )