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Need a Shot to the Kisser?

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under pop culture

Try the Pez gun. Great for parents who encourage their kids to engage in suicide- and execution-themed play. Click the gun for the full story at TopCultured.

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 7, 2009

All That Twitters Is Not Gold

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God, I hate Twitter. They say you either hate it or love it. I suppose it has its uses for deal-seekers (like myself) who enjoy the thrill of the hunt, in a Woot-Off kind of sense. It’s South by Southwest here in Austin, TX, and the streets are filled with the usual LA transplants, here [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 18, 2009

Do good.

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under pop culture

Do Good Now Do good while doing nothing? How about working on a cure for cancer while picking your nose? How many of you can do that? That’s what I’m doing today. I’m gonna do good while doing absolutely nothing. Okay, to tell the truth, I’m going to do good by installing the World Community [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 16, 2008

ACL “Sound and the Jury” contest horrors

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ACL’s “Sound and the Jury” contest has started, and in a pretty marginal way. The winner gets a slot at the ACL music festival – huge prestige. It could be a launching pad to great things for the right band. A band with talent. Too bad the bands who are currently winning are spectacularly weak. [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 7, 2008

What happened to M. Night Shyamalan?

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What the heck happened, M. Night Shyamalan? I just saw the ad for the new M. Night movie. It’s designed to look like some kind of andromeda strain movie. “There appears to be an event happening,” a man intones. This, according to our statistics, is the blandest, most uninformative, passive-voice piece of advertising ever recorded [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 26, 2008

Napoleon Dynamite and other dance scene movies

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Time to break open the scope on this blog a bit and chat a bit about movies — not overtly fanboyish movies like Blade but movies in general. You see, today I was speculating about a new subgenre of popular non-musicals. Outsider movies that feature a “big finish” dance scene. Specifically, Napoleon Dynamite and its [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 8, 2008

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