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The Friday Linkfest: 3/20/09
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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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
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Tone-LÅc, “LÅc-ed After Dark”
Tone-Lōc – Lōc-ed After Dark (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) There’s no way around this: Tone Lōc’s 1989 debut, Lōc-ed After Dark, is COMPLETELY ADORABLE. The elementary, dubious and occasionally tortured rhyme scheme (“lax-adaiscal’
Read More »The Friday Linkfest: 11/14/08
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 —Read More »Lists You Didn’t Ask For: Ben Stein Edition
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:
Read More »Songs for the Dumped: Volume Fourteen
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,
Read More »Songs for the Dumped: Volume Thirteen
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
Read More »Songs for the Dumped: Volume Twelve
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,
Read More »Songs for the Dumped: Volume Eleven
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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