April 2009
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Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
March 2009
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Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All-Time →
#6: Nixon for President 1992: National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, “I didn’t do anything wrong, and I won’t do it again.” Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally...
Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
Create Your Own Muppet Workshop →
iamtherog: Although i’ll never buy one, this is awesome. I’m getting one made of Franklin.
Mar 31st
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Allston in March
This month has be a difficult one for my neighborhood, especially businesses on Harvard Ave. Since the first of the month the following has occured: Bostonian Video closed A video was posted on YouTube of the owner of Blanchard’s stomping on a dog prompting a boycott of the store Economy Hardware closed Marty’s Liquors is forced out of their location on the corner of Harvard and...
Mar 30th
Promotional beer sweaters from the 70s and 80s →
These remind me of those totally awesome team sweaters NFL coaches wore in the early to mid-90s. EDIT: Another user’s collection of 186 floaty pens.
Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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ListenBishop Allen - Dimmer
Mar 26th
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WatchWatch
Slagsmålsklubben, an animated interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood by Tomas Nilsson.
Mar 25th
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Thai Spider-Man to the rescue  →
A firefighter in Thailand dressed as Spidey saved an autistic child from a third-floor window ledge in Bangkok. Police said teachers had alerted the fire station after the boy began crying and climbed out of a classroom window. Efforts by the teachers to persuade the pupil to come back inside had failed. But a remark by his mother about his passion for comic superheroes prompted fireman Somchai...
Mar 25th
Mar 24th
“Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
– Aaron’s fortune cookie
Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
“I can’t believe there was a period in my life when I didn’t drink...”
– Rog
Mar 23rd
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iamtherog: “For location, I recommend asking a gay person or a writer where they’d like to live and find a spot within a one-mile radius.  (Make sure the area has not been in the process of gentrification for more than five years if it’s a city, or that it is on top of a fancy mountain if it is a town.) The biggest mistake is asking a video artist or keyboard player (especially moog!) where...
Mar 19th
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If you’ve never had a Toblerone Dark find one now. It will blow your mind.
Mar 12th
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Mar 10th
me: I propose, apropos of us surviving another submission deadline, that we declare this week spring break MFA '09.
Lyz: PBR and bikinis!
Mar 10th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
Can fame be measured in the ratio between the number of people you follow and the number of people who follow you on Twitter?
Mar 4th
Rog’s band is out in Chicago recording their first full-length and they’re giving away their EP free! iamtherog: Check this out! thebearcage: if you don’t own our Brighter Sides EP, go to http://www.purevolume.com/theappreciationpost and download it for FREE. they’ve got us featured for the next week or so. ALSO, there are new studio videos over there. i’ll keep blogging text and...
Mar 2nd
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