April 2009
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March 2009
30 posts
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...
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Create Your Own Muppet Workshop →
iamtherog:
Although i’ll never buy one, this is awesome.
I’m getting one made of Franklin.
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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...
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.
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Slagsmålsklubben, an animated interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood by Tomas Nilsson.
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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...
Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions.
– Aaron’s fortune cookie
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I can’t believe there was a period in my life when I didn’t drink...
– Rog
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...
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If you’ve never had a Toblerone Dark find one now. It will blow your mind.
me: I propose, apropos of us surviving another submission deadline, that we declare this week spring break MFA '09.
Lyz: PBR and bikinis!
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Can fame be measured in the ratio between the number of people you follow and the number of people who follow you on Twitter?
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...