This is the new gun emoji. Courtesy of Apple The revolver emoji is out. Now in its place? A squirt gun: Apple’s latest software update for the iPhone and iPad features one of its subtlest but most symbolically significant design changes yet. iOS 10, which will be available for free download this fall, removes the […]
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This is Why Talking Ghostbusters Is Such a Pain in the Ass: A History of How a Bunch of Dicks Tried Ruining the Reboot
August, 2014: Ghostbusters is reported by film industry gossip site Deadline as a full-on reboot of the series (such as it was), starring women, directed by Paul Feig. Its existence is immediately spun as an attack on men and their precious nostalgia by Deadline editor Mike Fleming Jr. in an article entitled “Film Chauvinist Asks: […]
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Today in Biggie Smalls/Barney the Dinosaur Mashups
We’ve featured some amazing mashup work in the past (such as this terrific version of Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize” as performed by Earl Sinclair from the show Dinosaurs), but this one may top it! It’s Barney the Dinosaur mashed up with Biggie Smalls’ “Big Poppa” (with a special guest appearance from BJ as Puff Daddy). It’s […]
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Poll: Should Portland Public Schools Enable Climate Change Deniers?
While mentioned in Good Morning, News, this story is just too amazingly weird not to delve into a bit more deeply. SO: According to the Guardian, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) has decided to accuse Portland of censoring books. Why? As you may have heard, the Portland public schools board decided last month to […]
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Check Out the Gorgeous Trailer for Netflix’s The Little Prince
As you may have read, Netflix is killing it lately thanks to their recent team up with Disney, and now they’ve scored again by picking up the exclusive U.S. rights for the French animated flick, The Little Prince. From The Verge: The Little Prince, which is based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s story of the same […]
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Boy in Dinosaur Costume Creates Panic; Saves Slow News Day
Via Reddit, here is an actual story currently on an actual local news organization’s website. From KPTV: And here is the entirety of that story: FOREST GROVE, OR (KPTV) -Monday’s warm weather brought out a couple of mermaids, and even a dinosaur. A boy in a custom-made dinosaur costume was seen wandering around the Rogers […]
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Review: Marvel Universe Live! at the Moda Center
Courtesy Marvel Surely you’re familiar with those Disney on Ice spectacles that portray princesses and other Disney creations performing in a heavily produced show at large scale coliseums. (Parents feel contractually obligated to take their kids to at least one of these things, usually while gritting their teeth and suffering in quiet desperation.) Well a […]
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“My Concern for America Continues”
AMERICA is turning into a burning garbage heap of immorality and tyranny. Hello, I’m Phillip Abernathy, and I’m a fourth grader at Donald M. Adams Elementary School—and my concern for America continues. Yes, I may be “only” nine years old, but my eyes are wide open to the bureaucratic corruption that has polluted America—and, by […]
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Being Under 30: One Weird Trick for Getting a Subscription to The New Yorker?
Something weird happened when I became a Sunday New York Times home delivery subscriber this fall, and it wasn’t just that a 28-year-old person willingly exchanged perfectly good American dollars for the paper version of print media’s oldest available dinosaur. MB NOT PICTURED: Unbridled joy. It was this: Suddenly, I was in demand. High-brow print […]
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How the Sausage Gets Made: For Kids!
I love this picture more than life itself. Kids these days! They eat you out of house and home, and yet? They have NO idea how the sausage gets made-literally! Well, concerned parents can now change all that with Proletariat Butchery’s “Sausage Making Class for Kids.” Proletariat’s owner and head butcher Zeph Shepherd will lead […]
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The Greatest Invention of This, Or Any Other Century
I’m not going to do a long intro for this… just rest assured that the product in the following commercial is the greatest invention of this, or any other century—and I really wish I’d known about this for our summer issue. Watch… and woe be unto anyone who challenges me to a water war! Because […]
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This Sesame Street Avengers Parody May Be Better than the Real Thing!
Obviously I haven’t seen The Avengers: Age of Ultron yet. However! I find it extremely difficult to believe it will be better than this vegetable-themed Sesame Street parody called The Aveggies: Age of Bon Bon. It stars Onion Man, Captain Americauliflower, Black Bean Widow, Mighty Corn, (the decidedly UNCOOL) Zuchin-eye, and features Cookie Monster as […]