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Apparently having heard enough criticism from Anti-Angelinos (or virtually everyone who doesn’t reside in the city), a local blogger for Metblogs LA has decided to simply post a standard list of grievances against the city and offer up her comments page as a modern day version of the Ninety-Five Theses.
Human tourist-attraction the Naked Cowboy has decided to throw his hat (one of a paltry few articles of clothing) into the ring for Manhattan’s next mayoral election.
Ready your empty crack vials. Digital pusher Blizzard Entertainment has just announced that Sam Raimi will direct the official World of Warcraft movie.
Via Pie Chart…
Yes, that’s right. China has added over 150,000,000 internet noobs in the last three years. And still only one-fifth of its population is connected.
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Today’s Onion front page has delightfully transformed into a Chinese Communist Propaganda Rag. Here is the top news story for consumption by the proletariat.
Cute lecture by Ian Bogost of Persuasive Games about his five year old’s struggle to balance his virtual finances.
SlashFilm is reporting that several independent producers are going to finally bring Voltron to the big screen, including Dark Knight producer Charles Roven.
As a professional contrarian, I’ve often held to the notion that once something is well-liked by too many people, it can no longer be of decent quality. Despite this tendency, I went into a showing of Box-Office Leader Bruno, last night, with high expectations. Sacha Baron Cohen, in my opinion, had the chance to transcend the usual Hollywood nonsense and become an important satirist — a figure that could actually bring insightful commentary to the increasingly vacuous American public forum of debate. My hopes were soon lost in the nether-regions of a hideously bad movie.
Baby Boomers are a too-often ignored victim of the sprawling nest of debauchery known as “Teh Internets.”
via Maximum Fun.
In what surely isn’t a sign of the impending apocalypse, a giant as-yet-unidentified organic mass is floating past Alaska this week, heading for warmer waters and possibly looking for retribution.
According to the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department, the mass is “thick, and dark and gooey,” with hairy strands running throughout, and feeds on six-pack holders and sea lions.
