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Friday, October 24th, 2008

by Popdose Staff

The good people at NBC stream next week’s season premiere of 30 Rock in its entirety;

Yours truly helps Rotten Tomatoes pay tribute to the most prolific killers in slasher-flick history;

Our good friend Wing was in NYC this week, and look who showed up to see her;

Way Out Junk features an entire album’s worth of pipe organ music from Organ Grinder Pizza;

The Onion’s A.V. Club revisits 13 fake presidential campaigns;

Greg Palast urges you to steal back your vote;

The New York Times profiles the Eels’ Mark “E” Everett, and gets his thoughts on the recent Nova documentary about his father;

The Big Picture posts another lovely photo essay — this one about Berlin’s Festival of Lights;

The Washington Post’s Richard Lipski sits down for a chat with the Queen of Soul;

Our pal Jeff Vrabel warns of the imminent fall of Pandora;

Slacktivist continues dissecting the phony “voter fraud” scandal being ginned up by the GOP;

Oh my God, they’re taking close-up shots of Saturn’s freaking moon;

…And Renee and Jeremy release a video for their song “We Are One” to benefit Action Aid:

Friday, October 17th, 2008

by Popdose Staff

Pico at Something Else! has a one-track mind — and that track is Keith Richards’ “Take It So Hard”;

Cahl’s Juke Joint mourns the passing of Alton Ellis, and assembles an Election Day playlist (no mp3s);

Jeff Vrabel wades into the thick of the nation’s premier pierogi-based competition for the second year in a row;

To help with storytime during this time of economic hardship and uncertainty, Slate compiles a list of great kids’ books about financial ruin;

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog runs some stunning close-up pictures of the fucking sun;

Ringo Starr is too busy for your stupid fan mail;

Tim McGraw wishes he hadn’t signed that contract with slimy-ass Curb Records;

Anthony Kuzminski is all kinds of excited about the new Ryan Adams;

…And the geniuses behind the “Literal Videos” series gives the literal treatment to Tears for Fears’ “Head Over Heels”:

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