It sounds kinda fake, but trust me that it was verifiably true (well, the thing about the kid's dad; not sure about the tape itself). I also knew a guy who genuinely did have a hook-up that provided him with every single Nintendo 64 game.

Was it… this???
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Yeah, it's sad when you grow up and realize that many of the things you enjoyed as a kid came from a bunch of adults trying to push through as much cheap product as they could, knowing full well that the low quality wouldn't make a difference to a naive kid like you.

In the late 80s/early 90s there used to be televised PSA ads where Mr. T talked about how he hated drugs so much that if he heard a kid was doing drugs, he would go to their house and shake 'em - like, grab the kid and shake 'em till they realized how stupid it was to do drugs. This caused kids to believe that if you…

Random memory: I once knew a kid whose dad worked on Eureeka's Castle; he said that the crew had a gag/outtake reel that they circulated amongst themselves which included the puppets going on profanity-filled tirades and performing oral sex on each other.

This tweet says it all:

The polls may be a bit off this time, but I doubt they'll be that far off; I think the truth is that Clinton has the lead but the election overall is a lot closer than many of us would've expected.

I thought that was pretty funny (in a terrifying way) myself - it's like, when you're trying to find someone to lead the most powerful country in the world, you don't want anyone who looks like they're trying too hard.

I feel bad that I ever even watched The Apprentice, but I totally did for one season. In my defense, it was mainly because my girlfriend at the time wanted to, and she mainly just found the whole thing grotesquely funny.

Yeah, she probably shouldn't have said that they account for "half" of Trump's supporters, but she was right-on in calling attention to the nastiness that festers in big chunks of Trump's base. That message wasn't for the deplorables themselves - Klansmen, alt-righters, Pepe nazis and hardcore misogynists will happily…

Yeah this. There are a lot of people who have already decided that they don't like Trump but who now need to decide between voting Clinton, voting for a third party, or not voting at all. (Hey, anyone reading this - if you're one of those people, please vote Clinton!)

Hey, where's Gena?

It's no Amazing Alexander. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats.

Eh, I don't think the sign is saying anything all that strange or outre or whatever - to phrase it another way, I think it's just saying that American capitalism is often oppressive, and it can be unhealthy to understand your own life according to the standards set by an oppressive system. Like, imagine someone…

Yeah, this. I consider myself someone of 'the left' (though who knows what that even means anymore) and I don't think that that sort of extremist discourse is an essential or definitive part of left politics, but lord knows: it's certainly a thing. In my experience, you tend to see it most in spaces dominated by…

I'm reminded of something Jonathan Franzen wrote in considering why Canadian author Alice Munro isn't as well-known as she arguably should be (though this was before she won the Nobel Prize): "She doesn't give her books grand titles like Canadian Pastoral, Canadian Psycho, Purple Canada, In Canada, or The Plot Against…

Ghost Shark
http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

I remember a blog post I saw from a male professor (I think) who was convinced she was guilty, because she had a criminal history of things like once having sex on a train, and smoking weed with her friends - he said that these things reminded him of the young women in his classes, who he's convinced have no sense of…

Taryn Simon made a film that's more-or-less about that (to go along with her fantastic photo series on the subject); it seems to be on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

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