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Episode 27 – Roma We're bi-yearly now!

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Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Runner-Up

Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Runner-Up

According to Oxford Dictionaries, toxic is the word of the year.

I can see why this might be an attractive choice. Our elected (and permanently installed) world leaders seem to all be sharing the same handful of IQ points. Hatred of so many different kinds is thriving. Our slimy heroes have fallen. We can’t trust anyone, not even Mark Zuckerberg. California is on fire. There is wind on Mars (I…

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The Ten Bombest Pieces of Art from my Motherfuckin Class

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10. Judith Beheading Holofernes. Caravaggio is straight up assassinating the seminar with this picture. Yo this piece is off the easel. Hold me back. 9. Federico da Montefeltro.

Shit is sick bra. Look at this “chap” with like the techneezy of a maestrodamus. Piero della Francesco dog remember the name. 8. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami.

Jan van Eyck is fucking re-TAR-ded yo.…

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Smerbeck's Predictions for the 2018-19 NBA Tilt

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Individual Awards

Rookie of the Year:  Jaren Jackson, Jr., Grizzlies – Doncic will be the best player from this draft, but if Conley, Jr. and M. Gasol are healthy, the Grit’n’Grind Grizz have a decent shot at the playoffs

This was never considered an acceptable haircut.

Sixth Man:  Eric Gordon, Rockets – I didn’t want to make a seemingly obvious choice, but…

Nobody knows who the Sixth Man for…

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Hannah Neal Fleming Reviews Kim Vodicka

Hannah Neal Fleming Reviews Kim Vodicka

This is a coming of age book for girls We work our way from the bottoms up Incriminated by virture of ever having -Kim Vodka, Psychic Privates

You finish reading Kim Vodicka’s Psychic Privates (White Stag Publishing 2018) on the patio of a bar you frequent—it’s difficult to remember anything before finishing Psychic Privatesas your brain is now a series of sex puns—but you become aware that…

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Episode 26 – Crazy Rich Asians We're back.

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The Cage Collection

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I had a dream the other night about the Wrath of Khan. Except, in the scene where Khan is stuffing his psionic earwig into Chekov’s ear, there’s a sudden close-up of the earwig and it has the face of Nic Cage.

Cage’s eyes are closed into slits, his mouth is stretched wide, lips flapping in a jittery stream of innuendos, tips and cajoling. From then on out, Chekov is working for Cage, not Khan,…

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Top 10 Moments of Mother_Ocean.mp4

Mother Ocean is an exceptional piece of content. Mother Ocean is a four and a half minute news clip about a mysterious, possibly basketball headed sea monster that gave Rhode Island beachgoers the creeps for upwards of 90 seconds. I love this video. I have watched this video 74 times. If there were an Oscars for YouTube videos–I…

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“Both Safe and In Danger Simultaneously”: A Review of "Between" by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

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Kimberly Quiogue Andrews won the 2017 New Women’s Voices Prize from Finishing Line Press for her collection, Between,and thanks be to publisher Leah Maines for making that call. Her poems in this chapbook fall somewhere between familiarity and ingeniousness, between what I know I know and what I didn’t know I knew until I read lines like “it’s the small, edible things / that help bring us into…

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If a Gun Wants Anything, It Wants to be Shot

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If guns want anything, they want to be shot The stylish yacht pictured here has never been boarded by the author.

I’ve frequently not been on boats. It takes up nearly all my time. I’ve frequently been told then cars are a problem, too, because they run people over. And spoons make people fat. I’ve spent most of my life, including now, never having been washed ashore, nor having staggered across…

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Real Pants’s podcasting technology is weird so I have to link to the latest episode of the Pantscast here. Check it out by clicking below:

Pantscast #4: Bud Smith (Joke by Rae Buleri)

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Pantscast #4: Bud Smith (Joke by Rae Buleri)

Pantscast #4: Bud Smith (Joke by Rae Buleri)

In November 2017 I sat down to talk to Bud Smith about his book Work, which had just come out from Civil Coping Mechanisms.

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Girl Work: A Review of Maggie Woodward’s Found Footage

Girl Work: A Review of Maggie Woodward’s Found Footage

Maggie Woodward’s Found Footage is published by Porkbelly Press, a “queer-friendly, feminist” independent press based out of Cincinnati & focused on “work with a strong sense of voice or place, often with a touch of fabulism, folklore, or magic.” It quickly becomes clear that Porkbelly is an obvious home for Woodward’s collection, which is being released as part of their 2018 chapbook series & is…

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Fun Facts About Andrew The Angel of Death From Touched By An Angel

Fun Facts About Andrew The Angel of Death From Touched By An Angel

  The argument may not hold up under the close scrutiny of the Dr. Quinn fanbase but I believe that Andrew, the Angel of Death from Touched By An Angel, is the most bizarre character spawned out of the mid to late ’90s CBS Saturday night drama universe. If he isn’t most bizarre character spawned out of the CBS universe-he is…

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Here Are Some Famous Quotes to Help You on Your Journey

Here Are Some Famous Quotes to Help You on Your Journey

Mark Twain expounds upon a humorous jape. It’s not the musician, but the music itself, that is the best one that there is. -@RealMark Twain Have a great day and a rewarding experience. -Powerade Don’t be afraid to be yourself, no matter the cost. -Buick.ga.us.gov Every man around here dies, and yet it is also true that not every man really lives. -Pontiac Your intentions are the very heart of…

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Pure Music: Magma-Otis

A Short Tribute to Magma's "Otis"

  For the first ninety seconds, Otis sounds like a classic Olive Garden thumper. Just something smooth and easy listening to enjoy while digging into a giant trash can full of iceberg lettuce with friends and family. But Magma lead singer Christian Vander veers away from family-style dining at 1:37. If you were to cut the next two…

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Is the Hungarian Bono Impersonator Better Than Bono?

Is the Hungarian Bono Impersonator Better Than Bono?

  All art is fan art the same way that all drawings are cave drawings. I don’t know if that sentence is true- but it feels truthish. I don’t know if this is the reason why the Bono Hewson YT channel feels important but there’s a point where a dedication to imitation is deep enough where kinda things happen. If it the dedication goes sideways you might join the Branch Davidians because you love…

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