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By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 30th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Paging through the archives of Pictures for Sad Children, the ultimate bleak, existentialist webcomic. Also, the creator’s other project, http://hourlycomic.com/. Sheer genius.
- Ned Resnikoff…
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By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Inaugural high-fives. Extra points to Sen. Feingold for letting FunnyOrDie film in his Senate office.
- Dylan Matthews
Michelle Obama’s ball gown. Forget what the…
Tags: Big Love, entertainment, Jay-Z, Michelle Obama, music, obsessed, TV
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By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 9th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Laughing at the GOP’s inept attempts at social networking sites. Go GOP.com! Er, well, good luck with that anyway.
- Kay Steiger
The Daily Show!…
Tags: Jon Stewart, music, obsessed, The Daily Show, youth politics
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By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 7th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Twice now.
Tags: entertainment, Gossip Girl, LGBT, TV
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By Bradley Portnoy - Jan 5th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Slate has a piece today on the steps that wannabe-politicians can take to make sure that their Facebook pages don’t result in damaging revelations about…
Tags: Facebook, Internet, politics
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
We’ve already told you about the holiday music that you’d best avoid –let’s be honest, some of it is really, really bad. But rest assured…
Tags: music
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 24th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Christmas music. It’s pretty well inescapable by now: radio stations have been playing it 24/7 since the week before Thanksgiving, your mother puts it on…
Tags: music
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 19th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Never Mind the Buzzcocks. It’s this great BBC quiz show about pop music whose 15 years of episodes I am just beginning to discover. -…
Tags: design, food, music, obsessed
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Every week, the best fashion from the parties you missed.
At the right party, sometimes all you need is a white t-shirt.
Tags: fashion, Fashion In the Wild, hipsters
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Here’s an interesting Urban Dictionary entry:
1. Ponzi Crawl
A pub crawl that adds a new person to buy a round at each location. Each…
Tags: Bernie Madoff, economic meltdown, economy, humor
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Cause: You name your kid Adolf Hitler Campbell.
Effect: You might have trouble getting a bakery to inscribe the name on a birthday cake.
Deborah…
Tags: First Amendment, free speech, race
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
File this under “conspicuous consumption despite worldwide financial meltdown”:
Versace (as in fashion Versace) is building a resort in Dubai. It will certainly be lavish,…
Tags: Dubai, environment, international
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Rest. Enough said.
- Daniel Strauss
This Mad TV sketch right here. It’s a few months old but I just found it and it cracks…
Tags: Andy Samberg, design, music, obsessed, SNL, travel
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By Bradley Portnoy - Dec 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
The E.D.A.R., for “Everyone Deserves a Roof,” is a wonderful idea–homelessness is one of those problems that can never be completely solved, but if we…
Tags: economic meltdown, economy, homelessness, inequality
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