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The Friday Linkfest: 3/20/09

Popdose Staff March 20, 2009 0

Topless Robot counts down the 13 greatest Garbage Pail Kids and — oh happy day — the 10 best movie games for the Atari 2600; The A.V. Club finds 20 examples of TV shows

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The Friday Linkfest: 2/20/09

Popdose Staff February 20, 2009 8

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog strips out the best parts of the Dreams of My Father audiobook; Will Harris runs down and wraps up the New York Comic-Con; Pet Shop Boys debut a new

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Popdose Flashback: Tone-Lōc, “Lōc-ed After Dark”

Jeff Vrabel February 2, 2009 4

Tone-Lōc – Lōc-ed After Dark (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) There’s no way around this: Tone Lōc’s 1989 debut, Lōc-ed After Dark, is COMPLETELY ADORABLE. The elementary, dubious and occasionally tortured rhyme scheme (“lax-adaiscal’

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Listening Booth: Guns n’ Roses, “Chinese Democracy”

Jeff Vrabel November 19, 2008 22

Guns n’ Roses – Chinese Democracy (Geffen, 2008) purchase this album (Best Buy) Unless you’ve spent a lot of time in the company of William Shatner, Chinese Democracy will likely be one of the

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The Friday Linkfest: 11/14/08

Popdose Staff November 14, 2008 0

Slacktivist chimes in on the Prop. 8 debacle, and Keith Olbermann delivers a moving (and restrained!) special comment:

Hip new music on Alabama public television? Yes indeed —

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Lists You Didn’t Ask For: Ben Stein Edition

Jeff Giles April 28, 2008 10

Happy Monday, faithful readers! Are you ready for a new series? We hope so, because we’ve got one for you. Welcome to the inaugural edition of Lists You Didn’t Ask For! Here’s the deal:

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Songs for the Dumped: Volume Fourteen

Jeff Vrabel February 14, 2008 6

Ladies, here’s a little-known fact about many guys: If you break up with them, but then don’t leave, they will very possibly assume that you weren’t the SLIGHTEST BIT SERIOUS about the breaking-up thing,

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Songs for the Dumped: Volume Thirteen

Jeff Vrabel February 13, 2008 8

There are few things more entertaining on planet Earth than watching a guy who’s recently gone through some sort of emotional distress. I once stopped by a buddy’s place after having to put my

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Songs for the Dumped: Volume Twelve

Jeff Vrabel February 12, 2008 0

If there’s anything worse than having your heart broken in high school, when your fragile emotional identity is still developing, probably badly, it’s having your heart broken in elementary school, when it’s just sad,

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Songs for the Dumped: Volume Eleven

Jeff Vrabel February 11, 2008 6

Some love stories are full of hideous terror, but some can teach us things, such as that for a not-insignificant portion of the populace, there is apparently something called a “Sexy Canadian thing.” Who

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