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Hey everyone! Let’s all deconstruct a Sarah Palin Op-ed!
Obviously there is no media outlet that views itself as being part of ‘the media.’ This is problematic, especially when media outlets write pieces about how Sarah Palin is juicing the media cycle by hopping on issues at the height of their short-lived, American attention span induced popularity (remember when Dave Letterman had an affair, or something? me neither).
Every editorial [...]
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The youngs, the west, and their fucking bicycles.
If it were true, as I momentarily considered, that youth culture comes, like the weather, from the west, then an article like this might have a home in New York Times.
It doesn’t.
But if not for that premise, why publish it at all? Is it, indeed, a new phenomenon that bicycles are the mode of transportation [...]
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Report: SLA Drunk on Power, SoCo
Gothamist reported earlier today on a the culmination of a two year report on practices within the State Liquor Authority. Basically the report concluded that the SLA is the most corrupt, poorly run, and generally inefficient government office, EVER. This makes a lot of sense. Among other factors, the report contends that a “lax internal [...]
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The Skint hooked it up today
If you don’t already, you should start reading The Skint. Thanks to those guys, I’m going to go watch Garrison Keillor, fresh out the hospital, read from his new book tonight. I don’t even think I like the things he writes, its just that in light of his stroke a few weeks ago, you get [...]
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Army imparts priceless wisdom on the art of swallowing
A Maryland man was crowned King of the State of Maryland this weekend after consuming about a pound and a half of crabcakes in just under 3 minutes. Where could a human learn such a practice?
Hoover, 38, who is stationed at Fort Meade, credited his 18 years in the U.S. Army with giving him the attitude needed to [...]
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Pinball Wizard
Lo and behold, The Great Pumpkin’s North Brooklyn Pinball directory.
I think of myself as something of a pinball revisionist — I started my career on a high-tech, faux-holographic Star Wars Episode I machine in Milwaukee. While a part of me wishes pinball-nouveau had taken off (the last time I saw a Star Wars pinball machine [...]
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WE’RE HAVING A CONTEST
First read this. See you in a minute.
If you didn’t read that, let me tell you how it boils down. Basically, that site you love to hate, Look at This Fucking Hipster, couldn’t get enough of its actual subjects to sign the waiver for their upcoming (surely to be deck as fuck) book, so they’re [...]
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Happy Gilmore @ the Putting Lot
We’ve been meaning to check out The Putting Lot, the abandoned space turned miniature golf course in Bushwick. Tonight they’ll screen Happy Gilmore, the fourth film in a series that included golf greats Tin Cup and Caddyshack. Film’s at 8:30; come early to play a free round on their nine-hole course, each of which was [...]
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These Pretzels, are making me thirsty
We might need Dr. Sanjay Gupta to help out with this one. In another WTPWB exclusive, we are going to take a look at why it is that getting convicted of a multi-billion dollar fraud seems to severely disrupt normal heart function.
If you’ve been following the mess around Allen Stanford, including today’s creepy new details about blood [...]
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In honor of Black History Month, NBC employees are invited to dress in blackface and perform an entertaining jig.